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Dance & Aerobic Exercise Videos

The Complete Collection of Sweatin’ to the Oldies Review

The Complete Collection of Sweatin' to the Oldies

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Retail Price: $49.95

The Complete Collection of Sweatin’ to the Oldies teaches you how to lose weight by dancing to the classic music in the 80s. The music is inspiring and suitable for people at all ages. The video features Richard Simmons as the main trainer. What’s interesting is that the songs are not just pre-recorded stuff, there’s actually a live band that’s singing them! Kinda bizarre for a workout video.

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Dance with Julianne: Cardio Ballroom Review

Dance with Julianne: Cardio Ballroom

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Retail Price: $14.98

Amazon Price: $10.49

Dance with Julianne: Cardio Ballroom is dance queen Julianne’s latest dance workout offering. I personally love Julianne Hough’s adorable personality. It is sheer pleasure listen and follow her Julianne’s clear and easily replicate instructions.

Juliaane is expressive yet down to earth and she knows how to show you a good time to a productive and fun workout. Julianne’s choice of dance moves and music is wonderfully coordinated with tempo building up from in a smooth flow from start to finish. I really enjoyed sweating buckets doing the cha-cha and jive and feeling the leg and hip areas getting tone with each twist and turn.

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Samba Reggae Workout DVD Review

The Samba Reggae Workout

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Retail Price: $14.98

Amazon Price: $13.99

The Samba Reggae Workout is actually an intense body workout (despite it being a ‘dance’ exercise video). If you don’t believe it, you gotta try it! This DVD is well worth above its price. It begins with a good thorough warm up session targeting important muscle groups necessary for this intense dance.

Initially Quenia (the instructor) breaks down the basic steps for samba reggae and their variations..

This footwork is fast paced. The choreography is lengthy as it is being layed out but when set to the drumming, it will go by rather quickly.

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10 Minute Solution: Fat Blasting Dance Mix DVD Review

10 Minute Solution: Fat Blasting Dance Mix

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Retail Price: $14.98

Amazon Price: $9.49

I like the 10 Minute Solution: Fat Blasting Dance Mix DVD because I find it convenient enough to use it throughout the day. I can do a quick mini-workout in the morning to get my blood pumping, another some time in the afternoon and one before bedtime. And I know I’ve exercised 30 minutes in total that day, without the pressure of overexerting myself in one go.

You can do anything for just 10 minutes! Even if you’re tired, you never have time to think “God, how long until it’s over?”

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Luscious – BellyDance Workout for Beginners DVD Review

Luscious - The Bellydance Workout for Beginners

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Retail Price: $14.98

Amazon Price: $14.49

I loved the Luscious Belly Dance Workout for Beginners DVD. It was my first time doing a belly dancing workout and I tried not to pressure myself to get everything right at the first try. Just followed the tutorial and learned slowly.

The routines presented in this dvd were great! The instructional section really breaks down each move to ensure the viewer understands the dynamics behind each belly dance step.

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New York City Ballet: The Complete Workout DVD Review

New York City Ballet: The Complete Workout, Vol. 1 and 2

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Retail Price: $29.98

Amazon Price: $26.49

Though I have taken many dance classes, including ballet, I still found the New York City Ballet: Complete Workout DVD challenging the first few times I did it. I felt and saw results (mostly in my legs/glutes) after completing volume 1 for the first time. I’ve never been one for traditional workouts.

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Zumba Fitness: Latin Dance Workout DVD Review

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I had wanted to try Zumba for the longest time so I bought the Zumba Fitness: Latin Dance Workout Routine DVD. Tried it and it doesn’t feel like you are working out and you get to learn new dance routines! It breaks up the monotony of exercising, so I don’t get bored just going to the gym.

Obviously these DVDs are NOT as good as a live class, but if you want an introduction to a Zumba workout, they are a useful beginning. If you are not used to following movement on a DVD beware that the directions are first given in a different language and then followed by an English translation.

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Turbo Jam Beachbody 5 Rockin’ Workouts DVD Review

Turbo Jam Beachbody 5 Rockin' Workouts

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Amazon Price: $19.93

This Turbo Jam Beachbody DVD set has 5 workouts. 1) Learn and Burn 25 min), 2) 20-minute workout, 3) Turbo Sculpt(40 min), 4) Cardio Party (45 min), and 5) Ab Jam (20 min). The DVD set of two has a learn and burn segment which covers learning the 11 moves which are designed for low-impact, high cardio and high ab reduction.

Then there is a workout segment of about 15 minutes on the first burn segment. The 20 minute full workout is on the same DVD and another segment of a full turbo sculpt workout using hand weights of about 40 minutes is also included.

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