On cardio work, I am an intermediate exerciser who is playing with advanced choreography. I have done several of Kari’s workouts and love them – ask me my favorite workouts of all time and I’d say Danceworks and Body Tech. I’ve also done Christi Taylor, Marcos Prolo, Andre Houle, and Marcus Irwin. However, even though I love complex choreography, it takes me awhile to “get it”. I will start a new complex cardio workout after a workout I already know and then add a little at a time until I know the workout.

So, I eagerly tried this workout because I figured it’s a Kari Anderson workout and it was recommended to me by people who know my style and exercise preferences. And, I hated it – never got much beyond the warm-up. I simply could not follow their movements. They would show the easiest form of the combination and then say that you could stay with that and then they _all_ would move on to the next higher level of complexity. I would be left standing in the middle of my workout space trying to remember what I had just done (pretty badly) and attempting to interpret their movements to something I could remember. In fact I tried it twice. I gave up on it once, put it on my trade pile, and then several months later decided that I had gotten a whole lot better at cardio, so I would probably “get it” this time. Nope. Exact same reaction. I finally threw in the towel and just decided that this workout isn’t for me and I was NEVER going to get it.

I don’t know if my reaction was simply something about the way my personality and abilities interacted with this specific video or what. But, I figured I’d post a contrary view to the other reviews, just to present “the other side”.

Instructor Comments:
They are warm and encouraging.

Laura S.