Shape Cardio Workout: Bikini Body All Year-Round
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Actor: Lisa Wheeler, Michelle DozoisBrand: INSPIRED DISTRIBUTION LLC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Peter Pan
DVD Reviews of Shape Cardio Workout: Bikini Body All Year-Round
DVD Review: If you are great at choreography you'll get a fun but gentle workout, but this requires a bit of dance compilation moves
Summary: 2 Stars
I picked this up for a couple bucks at TJ Maxx. That is always hit or miss because they either have DVDs that didn't sell well and went to close out, or good DVDs that are just older and not big sellers. I get my Tae Bo DVDs there and love them all, but when I find one it's always a shot in the dark since I can't read the reviews first. This shot, for me, was a miss. But it has its target audience so you may love it...I'll go over the positives and negatives for you to decide.
CALORIES BURNED:
I wear a bodybugg and display device in order to measure my daily caloric burn. I am also able to program it to show me exactly how many calories a specific workout burned, how many calories that workout burned per minute, and how much my calorie burn was raised after the workout (for example, with strength training which doesn't burn as many calories during the workout, but continues to burn them long afterwards.) I mention this only so you'll know what I say is based upon scientific measurement rather than perceived exertion. This, in comparison to the rest of my fitness DVD library would be ranked as a "gentle workout". While it was fast based, its caloric burn was medium low. While the exact amount of calories burned would vary per person based upon your height, weight, muscle density etc, this will still rank lower than most you'll find but that's not a bad thing if you want a more gentle workout--especially if you are recovering from a day of strength training the day before.
MUSIC:
Typical workout dvd music, lots of instrumental electronica but nicely planned to move to the beat of the dancer and fit with each routine.
WHAT YOU GET:
5 10-minute dance segments plus a warm up and cool-down and an 18 minute "long and lean" workout which is essentially yoga and pilates. The full running time is 80 minutes, which is a long workout for the low price.
KNOW GOING IN:
If you are great at choreography I think you'll love this DVD because it combines working out with dance. For me, it was frustrating. Now don't get me wrong, I workout exclusively to fitness DVDs, but usually they don't give you several steps and expect you to learn and memorize them in order, then give you some more then ask you to start from the beginning (with the other routine you just learned by memory) then add on the new steps, then teach you some more, and ask you to do them all in order from memory all together from the beginning...That isn't necessarily a bad thing. Lots of people might be able to pick up and memorize this routine. For people like me, however, I felt like I was in a bad dream where I was unexpectedly thrown on stage to replace a member of "Dancing With the Stars" but never allowed to see the routine I was doing beforehand. I tried. I rewound it. I worked hard at it. But choreography memorization just isn't my strong suit and I own it. My preferance is just to workout with good cueing and no step memorization to add on moves in order to create a compilation of a routine.
CUEING: This varied. Some parts were good, but many were confusing. And, with the routine being confusing to me as it was, it just felt frustrating to be honest.
LEVEL: As long as you can pick up the routine, you'll be able to do this regardless of muscle density or experience. So it's more about being good at the choreography than at any certain fitness level.
MUSCLES WORKED: This is geared primarily to your lower body. Although you will be doing arm movements, they are not enough or of the style to tone, nor are the moves geared towards high core toning.
SET: I have other Michelle Dozies DVDs and although basically every workout DVD has a similar kind of set for the most part, for some reason the company she must use for set staging makes me giggle a bit with their set. It always looks like they took a doctor's office and asked them to clear out part of the lobby in order to allow them to film a fitness video. I kid you not. It's amusing and nothing close to a gym...not that it should be a gym. You'll see things like a bookshelf, a long thin table against the wall beside them with objects de' art like glass vases, ceramic bowls, and other things slightly dangerous for fitness but lovely for an office decoration, bookshelves, paintings on the wall, faux painted concrete floor, etc. I don't know why every video with hers is a different set but also an amusing yet sterile "docs office" but probably no one else but me notices anyway. I think they might be going for the look of a living room, but it doesn't make it.
TEAM: You'll get your primary instructor and a fit back up team to follow as well.
EQUIPMENT: None required but you'll likely want a yoga mat if you choose to do the Yoga/Pilates section. You will need a decent amount of space for all the Mambas, cha-chas, grapevines, etc. in the routines that move you in several directions both front and back as well as side-to-side. I have a workout room (it's just a cleared out bedroom with nothing in it but my tv. some weights, a bosu, and an elliptical) and I still used the entire room.
CONCLUSION: For those who pick up quickly when someone shows them a dance routine this would be good to mix things up a bit in your workout routine. If you were on the drill team or majored in dance, you'll have fun. I do not fall, unfortunately, into either of those categories so I was rather frustrated. The calorie burn is fairly low but it could work well on days you wish for a more gentle workout. Because there is no strength training and just cardio, it would be good for a recovery day when you have sore muscles from strength training and want something gentle...but only if you are more coordinated than me.
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