New Year's resolutions kept! Exercise video sales up 15%

Collage Video, publisher of The Complete Guide to Exercise Videos, has found that more people are committing to their New Year's resolutions this year than last. Sales for the first two weeks of January are up 15% over the same period last year.
What's especially interesting is the diversity in the videos consumers are buying. For example, this year there's lots of exciting new entries, especially from Anchor Bay Entertainment, with their 'FOR DUMMIES' series. And the baby boom is so strong that this is the first time a prenatal tape, CRUNCH: YOGA MAMA, is in the Top 10.

*The Complete Guide to Exercise Videos is widely respected as the world's most comprehensive catalog of fitness videos. In addition to their quarterly 60-page catalog, consumers may also receive the most up-to-date information on exercise videos and instructors by visiting their website at www.CollageVideo.com.

Stephanie Oakes is a fitness correspondent for Discovery Health Channel, a contributing editor for USA Weekend Magazine and the LA Times, and appears on NBC's 'Today in New York'. She can be reached at soakes@beststuff.com.