I have only done this workout twice all the way through, and I wanted to like it. I really did. There is such a dearth of more advanced level non-combat, non-boot-camp, non-martial art cardio routines for floor that when I had high hopes that Kari would come through for me as she did with the first Sweat Express (which if I ever find on video again I will buy and pay someone to burn it to DVD for me).

And I just can't get into it at all. I am assuming she was going for shorter combinations and no TIFT-ing. Now while I am not crazy about TIFTing after every single new 4- or 8-count move, I don't mind the way it's done in "Hot Steps" or as Cathe did it in Power Max back in the day. A little is good. A lot is annoying.

But to have no TIFT-ing on a workout with complex choreography? It was just a choppy mess--just when I thought to myself, "SELF! You've got this!" the song would end and they would do these cheesy little ta-da poses and off they would go to another routine. There was a time in my life--and there may be one again--when I would take three months to master a complex workout and feel like a rockstar once I did. One of those workouts is still in my regular rotation to this day. Right now, I just want to have fun and get sweaty and endorphin-y during a cardio session. This one left me screaming at the TV. Not at all what I need when I only have an hour, tops, to get it done in the morning before work.

But even if I can get over this hurdle--I practice and three months from now, I wonder how I ever found this one hard, the other annoying thing--and one that is inexcusable in this day and age:

Kari is a former IDEA Instructor of the Year. How many workouts has she put out over the years? And at least once in every workout I have ever owned of hers, there will be segments where she doesn't work both sides of the body evenly. I don't know if this is a lapse in choreography or editing and producing, but after this many years in the business, she needs to fix it.

Instructor Comments:
As always, Kari is beautiful, pleasant, and so much fun to watch. this workout just didn't reach out and grab me the way so many of her others have done.

Melissa Cooper