Cardio Dance

Paula Abdul
Year Released: 1998

Categories: Floor Aerobics/Hi-Lo/Dance


This is not your traditional exercise video-this is a reason to get up and dance again! Paula is dancing with two guys and two gals (who are obviously dancers) and trust me, your heart rate will go up. The steps will take you some time to learn so this is not a video for those with two left feet, although the teaching style is a little more patient than in her last video. You learn each segment of the dance separately and then gradually put it all together, until you do the whole routine at the end of the cardio segment. Then there is a cool down dance, some standing toning moves (which I found a little hard on the knees-all those plies) and a floor stretching routine. The music is basic synthesized aerobic stuff done in Paula's style without any actual singing. Paula and her fellow dancers are enthusiastic without being too goofy and their dancing form is very professional. There is plenty of advice in this video, both written and in voice-over which may become annoying to you once you learn the routines. The production quality is very clean and nice-like a warehouse style dance studio. Sometimes they do that thing again where they are focusing on the dancers' upper bodies and faces when you really want to see their footwork. All in all, I really like this video because it is going to keep me occupied learning the dances for quite a while and I like challenging footwork! But it may not be the thing for intermediate/high level aerobicizers because all the dance moves are low impact and not overly strenuous.

Instructor Comments:
I think Paula must have taken all that advice from her previous video to heart-her cueing is good and she's avoiding all those head-snapping moves everyone was complaining about. This is one fast video but this time she slows all the steps down first and shows them to you from behind in a window.

MissC

11/30/-0001