{mosimage}The Method: Dance to Fitness
(Current/PPI)
1997
What is it?
Two dance-based cardio workouts, each lasting a little over a half an hour from start to cool down.
Who is it for?
Advanced beginning exercisers who like dancing and are becoming bored of traditional aerobic moves. Out of all cardio workouts from The Method, this one is probably the easiest to follow.
What to expect:
If you are accustomed to the grapevine-hamstring curl-repeater moves of most aerobic dance classes and videos, Dance to Fitness is a cardio workout that is like nothing you’ve done before. If you have taken any traditional dance classes in the past, many of the moves here will be familiar since they are based on jazz and modern dance steps. Combined with precision, a focus on the core (the stabilizing muscles in the trunk), and a Yoga-based cool down at the end of the second workout, and you have all the elements of The Method in a video that will raise your heart rate (something that not all the Method videos do). The first segment is taught by Jennifer Kries. It’s done barefoot, and is a little more esoteric than the second segment, taught by Lisa Wheeler and practiced with regular athletic/ aerobic shoes. Wheeler focuses more on traditional jazz moves in a very easy-to-learn series of dance steps. Although it will take more than one pass to flow through the moves in this video, anyone with an open mind and who is good at regular aerobics should be able to master it.
If you have tried other dance-based cardio workouts from The Method and found them too difficult, you may want to give this tape a try. It’s an earlier tape, and the moves are nowhere near as complicated as in their other cardio programs.
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