Dance Fitness for Beginners with MaDonna Grimes: African Beat - Latin Heat

Dance Fitness for Beginners with MaDonna Grimes: African Beat - Latin Heat

starring: MaDonna Grimes Amazon.com's Price: $9.98 as of 03/17/2010 22:44 EDT Used Price: $9.94 Third Party New Price: $5.62 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0743452188727 Format: Color, DVD, NTSC Label: Cerebellum Corporation Languages:EnglishOriginal Language Manufacturer: Cerebellum Corporation MPN: DGH1887D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Cerebellum Corporation Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 11, 2005 Running Time: 42 minutes Studio: Cerebellum Corporation Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Related Items: Dance Fitness for Beginners with MaDonna Grimes: Urban Street Heat Zumba®: Ditch the Workout, Join the Party! The Zumba Weight Loss Program Dance Fitness for Beginners: Daily Quickies - Ten Minute Workouts Dance off the Inches: Hip Hop Party The Samba Reggae Workout see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Award-winning choreographer, MaDonna Grimes, is renowned for her innovative dance moves. She founded the MaDonna Grimes Fitness and Dance Theatre Company, has released a CD, and is the author of Work It Out. She has a master’s degree in dance performance and choreography, and has appeared in many fitness and fashion magazines. Elevate your heart rate in this high-energy workout that moves and grooves. African Beat – Latin Heat is like having a dance party in your living room! MaDonna Grimes makes sure you never stop moving in this exciting Dance Fitness for Beginners program. Challenge your muscles and your spirit when you turn up the heat with this full-body, cardio workout. MaDonna keeps you burning calories as you dance, move your arms, and swing your hips to a mix of Latin and African rhythms. Designed for women and men, this program combines Latin dance steps with hip, urban moves. MaDonna breaks down the routines, than creates a dynamic workout that will leave you sweating for more! Program Features: - Dance moves you can take to the clubs - Fun routines challenge every muscle - Tones entire body - Shed unwanted pounds and burn fat Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Product is exactly as expected This is an excellent seller. Prompt, good pricing and product is just as promised. Thanks Rating: - Fun! I love this video. It's just good relaxed fun - like MaDonna herself. She's so real. She cues well, but doesn't yak-yak-yak the whole time. The team look like they are having so much fun, and, even though I probably look like an idiot trying to imitate their moves, I have a blast dancing to this video. To really get a workout and get your heartrate up, her other video is better, but just for sheer fun, this one is great. Rating: - Short but sweet! Don't be fooled by the title "Dance Fitness for Beginners." Anyone can do this routine except those with weak joints because there is a lot of hopping going on in this workout. Even the 10 minute warm-up has several hopping moves as well as some fast neck swings. After you do that, however, MaDonna leads in several stretches. The 15 minute routine has a mixture of fast footwork and hops. The beginner would probably do better to get her other "Dance Fitness for Beginners" workout, but I personally prefer this one as a workout. It is more fun and higher cardio. The cool-down is really good after all of the high cardio moves you do, and it is about 5 minutes. There is a bonus 10 minute toning workout that works the legs and abs. This one works the legs more than the abs as opposed to the toning workout in her other partner video which worked both equally. It is really short, but I like this workout because it is fun. The 5 back-up dancers are constantly joking around with each other and MaDonna, and the atmosphere is just one of fun. There was more of African dance in this workout than there was Latin, and that is a unique workout that you don't see a lot. This is not the same workout as MaDonna's "All Star Workouts:Afro-Latino" which I thought it was until I actually bought this. Overall, this was a high-intensity, fast workout that was just a little too short in my opinion. Rating: - Fun Workout I was tired of the regular workout tapes and wanted to try a dance workout. I am not a good dancer at all and none of the moves come naturally to me, but this is fun to do and gives me somewhat of a workout. I've noticed that the better I become at doing the moves, the more of a workout I can get. Two things were disappointing -- 1) there isn't a step guide portion of the video so you have to learn as you are doing the routine and 2) it's too short. I like to workout for at least 40 - 45 minutes and with less than 30 minutes this one just isn't long enough. In order to make it longer I've been doing the warm up, then going through the routine twice, then doing the cool down. But at least this is fun enough to make me wish it was longer! And MaDonna's personally is upbeat and fun, too. Rating: - fun I tried many exercise videos. I love doing yoga, but need some cardio. Well this is great cardio and fun. I am in a small travel trailer and still have room to do the moves and enjoy every minute of it. see more