Music: Varied Instrumental
Length: 50 minutes. 4 minute aerobic warmup, 8 minute ballet-bar legs, 5 minute arms, 3 minute waist, 6 minute aerobics, 3 minute aerobic cooldown, 6 minute stretches, 10 minute abs & buns, 4 minute floor & standing stretches.
Energy Level: Varied
Choreography: Mostly irrelevant but simple where it exists
Production: good

It's very hard to categorize this tape. The aerobics section is quite intense, but even if you include the cooldown routine, it lasts only 9 minutes. The ballet-bar (or chair) exercises for the legs are intense (if you're not a dancer, of course) as are the abs & buns workouts. It helps to be limber: I am (with legs extended straight in front of me, I can rest my head below my knees, rest my elbows on the floor, and hold any part of my feet with my hands---with no discomfort) and I found many of the stretches, especially for the calves and quads, very challenging. If you have trouble standing still without becoming dizzy, then the first sections may be uncomfortable.

I'm not sure who or what this tape is for. The aerobics section has very simple steps, so it would be great for somebody new to aerobics, but it's too brief to have much value and, excepting for the arm & waist sections, the other sections seem aimed at people who are moderately fit. If there were no aerobics section, I'd say it's a great stretch & strengthening tape.

Diane Danielle

11/30/-0001