I purchased this vacuum about 6 mos. ago in search of replacing my Bissell Pet Hair Removal vacuum. I wanted to wait in submitting this review until I had used the Shark for a fair amount of time. I had initially purchased the Bissell Pet Hair vacuum to help me with the carpet and carpeted stairs in my home. We have two dogs, a Min Pin and a yellow Lab, so the dog hair has various sizes and colors. Our house is carpeted almost throughout (except the tiled kitchen and entryway) in a dark forest green carpet. You can imagine how quickly and easily the yellow Lab hair shows on this dark carpet. I found the Bissell to be heavy and almost impossible to deal with on the stairs. The removable attachment hose was always detaching somewhere, while I was trying to use it on the stairs (either the pet attachment from the extension piece, or the extension piece from the flexible hose, or the flexible hose from the sweeper body. Nothing broke, but in pulling the hose up the stairs, something would inevitably pull out from their counterpart as there were no 'locking' mechanisms to keep these separate pieces together. I also found that the rotating brushes on the Bissell did NOT stop rotating as long as the sweeper was turned on. This resulted in the sweeper 'eating' the rubber coating on the sweeper cord while I was trying to pull the hose up the stairs and the sweeper would roll over the cord. The cord was attached to the lower part of the vacuum so I had to wrap the cord around the top extension hose holder, to keep the cord in reachable distance.

At best it's half a workout. Workouts are repetitive from Insanity but not nearly as intense. If you need weight loss, this program simply doesn't burn enough calories. You would need to drastically cut calories to meet the weight loss claims and you can do that without spending the money on this disappointing program. My wife and I have done P90X (great), Insanity (OK), Pump (great) and various Jillian (OK) workouts and they are all better than T25. This is the Sensa of Beach Body programs. Plus Shaun T's uninformed knowledge of exercise physiology is just maddening. No, I am not working my obliques by simply turning to my left. The "weightlifting" is pathetic. We patiently waited for it to get better but after 5 weeks of Alpha and one week of Beta it just doesn't work. If you have Insanity, just do it over. You'll save the money and get a better workout.