Lean Routine

Jane Fonda
Year Released: 1992

Categories: Floor Aerobics/Hi-Lo/Dance


This is the first exercise I ever had. My mom bought it for me as a gift because I was overweight and wanted to work out but gyms were so expensive and I was in college and couldn't afford the monthly fees. So I did this one every for several months until I bought a second one. This is a one hour hi/low floor aerobics class. One side of the room always does low and one side does mixed. The setting is kinda cool, on a rooftop, and the ligting makes it look like night. Some of the camera angles and cuts are weird. They focus on feet during simple steps and faces during a more complex pattern. The exercisers all look like pretty happy and wear very trendy clothes (Jane wears this lacey bodystocking ala Cher with boots and looks doofy) but there is some variety of body types here even though they are all fit looking. The music is generic aerobic music. The workout is step up so you can do a whole hour if you choose, but the song at twenty minutes can be used as a warm up, or cool down if you choose. This was pretty cool because I had one video for a long time, and I could make it feel like a different one by mixing doing 20 min, doing the whole thing or doing 40 min. You can get a lot of mileage with this format. The aerobics are pretty intermediate, though beginners who like more complex moves than just marching may like enjoy this one with the low impact options. The stretch at the end is good, but there are no stretches in the warm up and if you stop at 20 min., you'll have to fast forward to get them. Also this an interval work out, alternating intense aerobics with low intensity aerobics. Its well produced and fairly enjoyable.

Instructor Comments:
Jane teaches this with Jeannie and Laurel. All of them seem friendly, and cue fairly well. Laurel is far less annoying than she was in Step n Stretch. Jane talks more than the other two. Jeannie seems very down to earth and encouraging. Laurel seems more hip.

linda

07/09/1999