Sweatin' to the Oldies Series

Richard Simmons
Year Released: 1991

Categories: Floor Aerobics/Hi-Lo/Dance


The music is all remakes of songs from the 50's and 60's...the stuff I grew up dancing to with my dad and mom. Songs include: Dancin' In The Streets, Beyond the Sea, He's a Rebel, Ain't no mountain High Enough, It's my Party, wipeout...there's a couple of others, I'm sure, but I can't recall them right now.

The footwork is simple...nothing to tangle you up...and the music is fun and inspiring.

The class is huge and the set is high school reunion - inspired. The members of the class are all different shapes and sizes and they sometimes fumble, which only serves to endear them. They are people who are on their weight los journeys and at the end of the workout, they are all introduced in a little dance-off and it is printed on the screen how much weight each has lost. Some of them still have a ways to go...and to find out that they have already lost over 100lbs makes the tape even more inspiring.

Richard doesn't cue very much, but the moves are simple and after a couple of times through, you don't even miss the cues that aren't there. This is probably the nicest feature of the whole tape...it lasts longer than just a couple of viewings. There aren't any comments in there that will only serve to annoy you the 20th time you do the video.

The only downside to this tape is that it isn't available on DVD...but if it ever is, I guarantee I'll be buying it. This tape makes my hall of fame, even though I don't do it very often, it is a nice tape to come home to.

Instructor Comments:
Time and Time again, I always seem to find myself coming back to this one. It is fun, richard isn't overly annoying in it, like he tends to be in some of his later videos, and it's a good 40 min cardio workout.

Cori

01/03/2004