Ready for a high-energy, low-impact, hip-hop workout? Designed for the youthful exerciser (the heart-rate chart goes from age 15 to 50), this 50-minute video has upbeat dancers, cool moves, and MTV music. Instructor Tina Landon, host Eric Nies, and the Grind dancers are enthusiastic and energetic. You'll have to get past a few annoyances to enjoy doing this video. Landon and the assisting dancers forget that they should be cuing for us, not each other, so they cue "right foot" when it's our left, and vice versa--very irritating when you're trying to learn the steps from the cuing. In addition, the camera inexplicably does not always show the feet when the instructors are demonstrating new footwork.
If you can ignore those impediments, this video is lots of fun. Each dancer teaches a segment of the choreography, showing it first fast, then slow, then fast again. Then the new segment is added onto the end of the sequence already taught, so the pattern grows each time. The choreography is energetic and innovative--coordination and patience required!
After the dancing and cool-down, Landon leads a yoga-inspired stretch routine. --Joan Price
