Prevention Fitness Systems - Drop It with Dance

I rec'd this DVD and did it this morning. What fun! It's a well chaptered DVD with warmup and cooldown. There are 3 dance segments (Hip Hop, Jazz-Funk, 90's Jam) that are 10 minutes each, as well as a 10 minute "Showtime" segment where the instructor goes through all of the moves. Total running time is about 50 minutes.Tabitha D'Umo is a great instructor and I was able to pick up most of the moves on the 1st try (except for "Farmer John"). I hope to see more of Tabitha in future dance workouts. She's very personable and easy to understand.I definitely worked up a sweat, especially on the 90's Jam and Showtime segments, and time just Flew by! This workout is relatively low impact except for a couple of moves, which I modified with no problem. It's also pretty easy to do on a carpeted surface (with the exception of the "Farmer John" move).I recommend it!The only quibbles I have with this workout are:* if you're doing all of the segments, there's about a 1 minute period between the segments where you just kind of march and wait for Tabitha to instruct. Easy enough to fast forward through, though.* there are no leg stretches in the cooldown, which are a must with dance workouts, in my opinion.

Prevention always bring terrifc workouts. They are always easy to follow and yet challenging enough to keep you from getting bored and also effective enough to burn some serious calories.This dvd is no different. It's taught in a great way that allows you to learn the moves very easily. You start out learning a little bit and it's done in a slow tempo and builds up the pace to full tempo and repeats itself so you can really get the moves down well. Having said that, there is a lot of emphasis on having fun and enjoying the movement rather than being able to totally master the moves.The three dance styles they focus on here are jazz funk, early hip hop and 90's jam. They are all fun and before you know it you've done the workout and broken a good sweat. At the end of the workout, all the styles and moves that you've learnt are put together and that definately gets you puffing.I really enjoy this dvd. It's another brilliant Prevention workout that I've added to my collection so I don't get bored. I find it's easy to do and keeps your heart rate up for almost 45 minutes. I feel great after doing it and highly recommend it.

Of the 3 Prevention Dance DVDs this one was the most lacking. While the Dance moves were pretty cool the instructor needed to break a huge portion of the moves down taking the pace to 1/2 time. You just don't get any aerobic effect at this pace. I suspect if you are an experienced dancer you could watch the DVD a few times and then use it by just repeating the Dance segment ending where they do the dance to tempo a couple times to get your 20 minutes of Cardio.  Prevention Fitness Systems - Express Workout: Dance it Off!  does much simpler steps, more like steps you might do at a dance club, but has no 1/2 tempo moves so is more like a fitness video.  Prevention Fitness Systems - Dance Yourself Thin  is also a good one, and while has a few spots of 1/2 tempo keeps moving enough to give you a work out.

Thank you to Prevention for once again coming out with an instructor with excellent cueing and great moves! This is a very innovative, fun, fresh routine of dance moves. It is very, very dancy, with no aerobic type moves. I appreciate the consistentcy of the Prevention DVD's where the segments are broken down into warmup, jazz funk, hip hop, 90s jam, put all the dances together segment, and then cool down. The 5th segment where you put all the dances together is really the icing on the cake. I am an intermediate excerciser and really need that additional ten minutes of working out. Unlike some of the other dance DVD's where you can only get a good workout once you really learn the moves, this one is very high intensity. I was sweating really hard at the end. THis will definitely be my favorite new DVD along with Jennifer Galardi's Dance off the Inches Hip Hop.

Of all the Prevention Fitness DVD's I have this oneis for me complicated to learn and follow.I find that I am shown much too quickly (twice)how to dothe moves and soon are asked to follow in a quick paceand since its mirrored I have a hard time"getting" some of the moves and although I try this videoagain and again I can't really follow them all which is frustrating.Some of the dances in this dvd are easy to follow.All in all I do not use it too often because of that. Prevention Fitness Systems - Drop It with Dance

It arrived in a reasonable amount of time and in great condition! It was a great value and I love the DVD!!