I really think this is an all around awful tape, I can't believe that the same person who created the excellent Energy Sprint could have made a video this bad.

I bought this tape several years ago after working out with Your Personal Best with Elle Macpherson which was my first exposure to Karen Voight. I liked that tape so much, but I was looking for something more advanced . I picked this tape up and I hated it so much that I didn't try another Voight tape for a long time--not knowing that this tape was just a fluke and that on the whole, Ms. Voight does great tapes.

Let's start with the setting. The tape is filmed in what looks like some warehouse with a bunch glaring and obnoxious neon and white lights which spin around at the most inopportune times, so that when you're trying to follow a tricky move (and there're plenty of them in this video) this glaring light all of a sudden obstructs your view of the instructor. The camera angles are awful too. The camera moves and zooms in and out much too often, so that when you're again trying to follow a tricky move, all of a sudden the camera view is either obstructed by a huge ugly pipe, or the instructor is so tiny that you can't see her moves. The music is also awful, it is loud a very irritating, but if you lower the volume, you can't hear Ms. Voight. One of the reasons I exercise, is to relax, but between the lights and the music, this workout makes me want to scream.

For me, the choreography is not much better than the set. Ms. Voight has multiple turns and changes of direction, which make the tape difficult and confusing without giving you a more effective workout. She also does not do enough reps of the same step for you to get the hang of it (or for you to see it when there's not a pole of glaring light obstructing it).

In a way this tape is difficult in the worst way. It tries your mind, your memory and your patience, but the actual workout is really not that intense--even if I could master the steps, I wouldn't get the type of intense workout that I can get with Ms. Voights Energy Sprint tape.

Instructor Comments:
In this video, Ms. Voight seems to be less of "herself" than on her other videos.

Flossie