Your Personal Best

Karen Voight
Year Released: 1994

Categories: Circuit Training (cardio and weights) , Floor Aerobics/Hi-Lo/Dance


I really enjoy Karen Voight, and she is as meticulous as ever in this video. The scenery is gorgeous, the choreography sufficiently follow-able and adequately cued and the segments short enough that any time constraint can be met: do all of them, or some of them or whatever, and the time will go by fast enough courtesy of the stunning settings used.

My only complaint has less to do with this video itself and more to do with my not understanding how to fit this video (and I suppose circuit videos in general) into a rotation. Is the weight work sufficiently basic that you can do weights the next day? Is it too much to do cardio the next day? I think Karen could certainly give some pointers to that effect if she re-does this video. I think a marketing plan that paired this with her stretch tape or some sort of companion might be good. I don't think the work is advanced enough that you could split the tape and keep doing that for a workout. But if you're like me where you reserve one day a week for "non-traditional" tapes, you might enjoy this one. I am a choreo-klutz and could handle it just fine. My one sort of amusement about this tape is that Elle is much MUCH taller than Karen, and there are places where you can really tell. Kinda made me identify with Karen even though she is like amazon goddess fit person and I am just a not-quite-5'2 little intermediate working out in my little apartment.

Joanna

01/07/2001