Self - Dance Your Way Slim

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Starring: Kimberly Spreen
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Type: DVD
Studio: Koch Vision
Release Date: 2007-05-08
SELF, the premier magazine devoted to women’s health and well being, delivers a dance-inspired cardio workout designed to make you look and feel strong, confident and sexy. Leave your inhibitions behind as you improve your endurance and burn fat with an expertly designed routine that will motivate you to reach your fitness goals-fast! Best of all, SELF magazine’s Dance Your Way Slim! combines a variety of fun, easy-to-learn moves to energize you and help you attain a slim body that you’ll love!

About the instructor
Kimberly Spreen is an American Council on Exercise, American Aerobics and Fitness Association of America and International Kickboxing-certified fitness instructor.

Not if you want a real challenge
I like Kimberly Spreen and have worked out with her before. I also enjoy other videos in the Self magazine series. However, if you're looking for a workout that will get your heart pumpinig and your muscles really working, this one isn't for you. I felt like the routine spent way too much time with simple hip-rotations and slow step-touches to be an effective workout. I felt like my time was being wasted more than once during this 49-minute video. On a positive note, this might be a good workout for someone who's looking to get some light activity in their day instead of sitting on the couch. Kimberly has a great attitude, and the outside setting is pretty. It's just hard to recommend this to intermediate/advanced exercisers.

Fun workout, poorly named
This is a fun workout with a vetran home fitness leader. I enjoyed the flow and that there wasn't a ton of taking it from the top and thought tha Kimberly was encouraging and cued well. HOWEVER, it's not a dance workout at all, more of a lower impact cardio routine with a dance flair. If you're looking for a dance workout, give this one a pass. If you like low impact cardio, this may be something you'd enjoy.

Eh...Not Great, Not Horrible...
SELF's Dance You Way Slim is a 50-minute cardiovascular dance workout (a little less, of coarse, without the warm-up and cool-down). POSITIVES: The instructor, Kimberly Spreen is fun and encouraging with a great personality (and even her mute back-up dancers have personality!). If you keep moving, you will sweat a lot and get a decent workout. The outdoor setting (Arizona, I believe) is nice. NEGATIVES: If you are a high intermediate to advanced exerciser, you will only want to pull this one out on your light days, or for a little variety, as this one is not too intense at all (it is the sheer length of the workout that will make you sweat as opposed to the actual workout itself). In fact, a lot of the moves are so easy that they seem to cause your heart rate to go back down (and I don't think they were intended to). As there are a good bit of athletic moves such as jogging, jacks, etc., a lot of it is not really dance. BOTTOM LINE: There are a lot of other, better dance-based exercise DVDs out there.

Mostly aerobics w/some dance moves thrown in
I love dance workouts & have a whole collection. I gave this a shot from my library & glad I didn't even waste it on a rental.
It's Kimberly Spreen w/2 women backup in someone's backyard w/an incredible mountain view background. The music is all synthesizer which was annoying & not motivating.
This is mostly a lot of step touches, some "fancy" jogging, some jumping jacks w/some easy dance moves thrown in like some mambos, cha-chas, double steps, single-double lung move, chest pops, single hip circles, and kinda arobic hip hop wanna be. All the moves weren't done well in my opinion considering I like dance videos from people who can dance well w/fluidity & body awareness & enthusiasm. Kimberly has none of this..
I felt like I was in a 1980s aerobics class. That's said, this is not a "no pain, no gain" pace, but more sedentary. If she gets your heart rate up with a few jumping jacks, she immediately has a rest, so you move fast, slow, fast, slow...
She does cue very well & she goes in 1/2 time several times before going to normal tempo, but she doesn't explain the moves except from an aerobic standpoint.. say for crescent hip circles "keep that core engaged..."
It has a 5 min warmup & cool-down with 40 min "workout"
You can see a preview at collagevideo com

staying fit
I am not very coordinated, but for the most part, I was able to follow the tape. It is not extremely aerobic, but I thought it gave me a pretty good work out. I felt it the next day. I currently use free weights and treadmill and got this for variety.