CIA 9704: Two Workouts with a Vengeance

Franny Benedetto
Year Released: 1997

Categories: Floor Aerobics/Hi-Lo/Dance , Step Aerobics


I was sorely disappointed with this video (especially since it cost $24.95). After reading all the wonderful reviews, I expected a tremendous video. As mentioned by others, the choreography was complex, but I found it boring and much too repetitive. If you like adding on to steps you've already done and then going 'back to the top', you will like this video. If you're easily bored and prefer several small sections of different choreographies , then I think you would be ungratified with this tape.

Also, no where did anyone mention (not in reviews, nor in the Collage Video guide) that this tape requires one to travel across the room. (I normally only do step aerobics, so I don't know if hi/lo aerobics always require so much room.) If you don't have a larger workout area, you will curse quite a bit during some of the moves in the first section.

The step portion of the tape was better than the hi/lo aerobics, although the "shuffle-shuffle" move was highly annoying.

I give this video a C.

Instructor Comments:
Her cueing is okay. I didn't find it as precise as other instructors, such as Keli Roberts.

Kelli B.

06/28/1998