The Method: Dance to Fitness

Jennifer Kries, Lisa Wheeler
Year Released: 1997

Categories: Floor Aerobics/Hi-Lo/Dance , Total Body Workouts


While this wasn't a "bad" tape, it went into the exchange bin right after the first use. The main reason is that, while kind of fun, it just isn't aerobically challenging enough for me (27 years old, intermediate exerciser.) I wish they had not attempted to split the tape into two workouts (even though, once again, Parade Videos wins the award for most false information on the box, because it claims this is *3* workouts and says the tape lasts 90 minutes.) The first segment is 22 minutes of warm-up and isolations, only 8 minutes of aerobics, and 5 minutes of cooldown (this is from the Collage catalog and I think it's accurate).The second segment has a 6 minute warm-up, 15 minutes of aerobics, and a 12 minute cool down that includes some yoga poses. If I were planning to keep this tape, I would eliminate the cool down and warm up between the two sections and do the aerobic portions straight through---but I really hate having to mess with my vcr during a workout. Another problem I had was that Jennifer wears a long skirt during the dace portion of the first segment, which makes it difficult to see what her feet are doing. Likewise, the camera shots don't linger on the legs and feet long enough for my taste. The cuing and form pointers were adequate for me, but I think a beginner would have a really hard time. And this is definitely not a tape for folks who don't like dancy videos (but I guess that's in the title, eh?)

Anyway, I would give this one an A- for concept, a B+ for effort, but a B- in execution.

Renee D

09/07/1997