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DVD : Shape Cardio Workout: Bikini Body All Year-Round |
- Too Dancy and hard to followI love the other Shape DVDs I have purchased but was not impressed with this one. The moves are very 'dancy' and don't provide a really challanging workout. Tracy was really hard to follow and the routines got old very fast. They also have a couple of 'extra' people just following along who look kind of silly.
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- Unless you are a dancer, forget this video!I bought this video hoping for a new fun workout, but unless you have a dance background you get lost following the fast paced moves. The back of the box says 'easy to follow dance-based segments', nothing easy about it. The instructors do not take their time to show the moves before jumping right into the combination of moves...a lot of foot action. Don't waste your money on this DVD! I'm going back to 'CRUNCH'.
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- Hard Dance Moves!Awful! Like other reviewers, you really need to watch this a few times before attempting to incorporate it into your workout routine. Unfortunately I didn't do that and was really frustrated. I made it through 1 segment before I gave up and tried a different workout video. I hate it when cardio moves are so complex that you can't follow along right away. The whole point is to motivate you to sweat off those calories. I just didn't find it easy to follow or motivating. I love some of the other Shape DVDs and I was really disappointed with this one.
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- An unfortunate dud from a great seriesI love the Shape workouts but this one is a dud. Really stupid workouts because they are too intricate to follow on the first time around but they don't get your heartrate up. I was disappointed.
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- When Great Ideas Go BAD... : - (I purchased this program after retiring my previous cardio DVDs ("Denise Austin's Bootcamp" and "10 Minute Solution's Fat Blasting Dance Mix", both of which are great workouts, by the way...however, a few months of intense usage is enough!). I had also previously purchased Shape's "Shape Your Abs" workout, which contains a very good 35-min. cardio/toning interval workout. Based on the fun and effectiveness of THAT DVD, I thought that this had to be good, despite the bad reviews, especially since it included a 17-minute yoga toning workout. What a mistake!
I have to say that the IDEA was good: that of five 10-minute cardio workouts - with a seperate warmup and cooldown - that can be mixed and matched according to your mood and time. Unfortunately, the quality of the workouts is what causes this DVD to falter.
All 5 workouts are dance-based, and are led interchangeably by Lisa Wheeler and Michelle Dozois (two of the most talented forces in the fitness industry today; Lisa is a top choreographer of at-home workouts and Michelle has appeared as lead instructor in quite a few titles).
Now, I love dance fitness. I own many such DVDs. However, these, though they will achieve their goal of burning calories, are lackluster, more than a little corny...and just not cool to have anyone see you doing! The music is also pretty bad. Many complain about the difficulty of the moves. I did not find them any more difficult than any other dance-based workout. In my opinion, if any dance fitness DVD is worth doing, it SHOULD be challenging and should take a few tries until you've got it down enough to really let go and have fun with it. That's the challenge!
That being said, I believe that the DVD would have benefited tremendously by varying the type of cardio. For example: one, maybe two dance-y workouts, one athletic drill, one cardio/sculpt interval, etc. That way, they would not alienate people who enjoy or desire cardio, but hate to dance. (Or people like me, who enjoy cardio, enjoy dance, but think these dance moves are WHACK! :-) Doing that could have saved this DVD.
And then there is the background...I'm sorry, but I thought having a dull, ugly living room (with easy chairs!) was the most unimaginative thing...I like a LITTLE escapism, please.
The "Long and Lean" bonus yoga workout, however, is quite good, though a little lacking in the abs department (despite what is said, you're not going to get lean abs from that one exercise, done so briefly).
Well, again, the "Shape Your Abs" DVD is good, as is the "Shape Bikini Body Camp Transforming" workout. So it's looking like one dud out of an otherwise solid series.
There are better cardio workouts out there.
Not recommended...unless you like corny dance moves.
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