Well, after giving this one away years ago, I recently had a craving to do it. Not sure why-- perhaps I have overdosed on badass Jillian and Bob Harper workouts lately.
So, I got a copy and was eager to pop it in the DVD player and get to work. Part of me wondered if it would be yet another case of :have to have that workout! Now that I have it-- what was I thinking?" Thankfully, this was not the case.
Yes, yes, Kathy is a little overexcited in this workout and there is a fair amount of whooping but it really didn't bother me. Like I said, maybe I've overdosed on the badass attitude prevalent on other workouts and a little enthusiasm and joy provides something of an antidote.
As usual, Kathy has good rapport with her background exercisers and shares the spotlight with them rather than just barking orders at them.
The first workout is taught add on style. There is a lot of taking it from the top, but the teaching segments are pretty brief, so I never got bored. This twenty minute segment really seemed to fly by. Most of the moves were fairly basic-- V steps, ham curls, marches, but she also adds somewhat more dancy moves such as a chasse, charlestons, chachas, and also some big movements such as scissors. Some participants add more high impact moves. This was the first add on hi/lo routine I ever mastered and it took me a few tries, but I got it all this time. This is a solid intermediate routine with basic to moderate choreography.
The second routine is teach a small combo block, perform it with or without high impact movements, and move on to the next block. There are 4 blocks in all and it runs 20 minutes also. If you do all the high impact I would rate it int/adv. with basic choreography.
The set is that studio with the arched brick background that has been used fairly frequently. The music is instrumental upbeat standard dorky aerobics stuff which I am perfectly happy with.
I'm glad I reacquired this workout.

Roz