Shape Cardio Workout: Bikini Body All Year-Round

Michelle Dozois, Lisa Wheeler
Year Released: 2005

Categories: Floor Aerobics/Hi-Lo/Dance


Others have already broken down this video very well. My take on it is that I definitely get a better workout than I've had with say "Dance Off the Inches" or the new Crunch or Prevention workouts, if only because you get almost a full hour if you do all the segments.

I range from high-intermediate to mid-advanced both complexity- and cardio-wise, depending on which way the wind blows. This was a perfect video for days when I want a solid intermediate workout say, first thing in the morning. Anyone who is used to say, Gay Gasper-style hi-lo or the Nancy Popp-era Crunch videos should pick up the moves fairly wel. It's basically a lot of grapevines, chasse shuffles, box steps, mambos, and other traditional hi-lo moves. Michelle does that move where you tap side to side, then do it double-time--that's one of the more heartrate-raising and fun moves. Nancy's last "tribal" segment includes some fairly intense sweeping leg moves and mini-squat side-to-sides.

All the music will sound familiar to CIA video veterans. Lively instrumental Dynamix stuff that I prefer to some of the workout Muzak I've been hearing on other new dance-workout videos.

For the price at DDD with free shipping, this is a bargain.

Instructor Comments:
I tend to prefer Michelle. She's just so perky and competent. Good cuing, good enthusiasm without being over-the-top. She chuckles at times, and seems to be enjoying herself without taking herself too seriously. But Lisa is fine too. Both do make the obligatory comments about "...for that bikini body," which I figure is probably required of them.

acey

01/28/2006