Customer Reviews

Marilu Henner's Dancerobics

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This is a tape I use frequently in my workout rotations. Marilu is a very friendly, upbeat instructor. She has a background in teaching dance and uses it to create a fun, challenging routine. The basic moves include the fox step, samba, charleston, grapevines, and kick-ball-change. It takes some practice to get all the moves down. She teaches them slowly at first, then speeds it up. It definitely gets me sweating! She also includes a toning section(abs, buns, thighs), and a cool down stretch. Her brother and sister-in-law are with her in the video. The setting is a dance studio with a lot of big windows. The music is lively, broadway-type music. I think it is filmed well...you can always see the move you're supposed to be doing. You can tell by her voice that they're in a large room...she doesn't use a microphone, but it's easy to hear her. She also has a section where she discusses her ideas about health. I think it's a terrific video.

Marilu did not think about the people with two left feet. She goes really fast during the dance steps. I could not even do half of the workout when I did it for the first time. She does not realize that not everyone could do the dances that she does in the video

Marilu's workout tape is great. The moves are easy to do and, rather than feeling like a workout, you feel like you've just spent 50 minutes dancing. I loved this workout!

Marilu is obviously full of herself. After viewing this video I realized that Marilu has a view of fitness that is probably not accepted by most fitness experts. Some of the moves that Marilu uses in the workout are very hard to do, and Marilu wastes no time in trying to let a beginner learn these moves. The video is very fast paced and unorganized. But the biggest problem is that doing the video doesn't even make you break a sweat. Her intrigate moves and footwork provides no benefit, except maybe for an ankle fracture.

I have to agree with the others. Marilu is just TOO full of herself in this video to make it fun for me! I took aerobic dance for years, and she does demonstrate some of the basics I learned; but when she gets going later in the video, you would have to be an accomplished dancer to follow her feet! With her fast footwork, and bouncing it often looks like she is not even in tempo with the music. Trying to follow that is VERY frustrating. The first two or three aerobic numbers are fairly easy to follow, but I found parts of the last numbers very frustrating. I usually move on to another tape at this point!

I actually began doing this video with my 40 year old mother, and she had a problem picking up all the steps,but she kept with it. I was looking for an at-home workout to balance with my figure skating. There are a lot of dance steps involved,some tricky, which benefitted my skating. But dont buy it if you have no talent for dance because this video will only frustrate you. Myself, I loved it so much I wore out the tape and had to buy another! (Also, if you will be annoyed at Marilu Henner constantly trying to look sexy, dont buy this!)

Marilu's video is the video that got me started exercising back in 1992. Since then I have become a workout video maniac!! Even though I now have numerous workout videos, I still use Marilu's several times a month. Her video is a breath of fresh air. With three different levels, the workout is great for everyone. Also, the video is split up into three differnt aerobic sections, a toning section, and a cool down, which is ideal if you don't have time to do the whole video. Along with all of this, Marilu gives you advice and suggestions to help with the workout and tips that have worked for her. Thank you Marilu!!!!!