We finally got our Dance Cardio DVD. (It had been delivered to our neighbors by our slackass, gnats-for-brains mailman, but I digress.) Donna and I immediately HA! What an amazingly intimidating piece of work this video is! We did have to spend about 15 minutes watching it and psyching each other up before we could start with the "5, 6, 7, 8..." If I'd been alone, I would have cried and pretended like the disc had gone permanently astray in the mail. How people do this stuff without a Donna to motivate them and keep them company, I will never know. We finally got up enough nerve to work painstakingly through the break down of the first of
HA! What a joke! I swear she threw in a couple of extra little somethings but she was moving waaaaay too fast for me to figure out what they were. My fall back strategy from my long ago step aerobics classes came in handy: I bounced in time with the music until we got to a part of the routine I remembered and could jump back in. Sadly, of the four eight-counts that made up the combination - I bounced for at least three of them on average. I could not for the life of me get my pliees or my pedal spin or my sassy little skips fast enough to catch up with her! And if I did get something right, when she reversed directions to work the other side of the body? I was a mess. I did consistently manage the first steps (right, left, right) and the last two beats (jumping jacks in place). My routine went something like this - step, step, step, "dammit!" bounce, bounce, twirl (wrong direction "dammit!"), bounce, skip ("dammit! dammit! how does she do two of them so quickly?!"), bounce, bounce, step ball change, power arms, "crap! missed that AGAIN!", bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, (pant), bounce, JUMPING JACK, JUMPING JACK!
There was a bunch of claptrap at the beginning of the video about specific angles of movement and the benefits of working particular muscle groups in precise coordination. I'm sure that's all fine and well. If and when I get past the "white girl flailing" stage, I'll let you know how that works out for me.
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dance, white girl, dance! haha, reading your post gave me flashbacks to a cardio hip-hop class i went to once. we are all looking forward to the video link... :)
LOL!
I have some "The Firm" videos that combine strength and cardio and your description brought me right back to the days of trying to follow along with the cardio portions.
And my Zumba class from earlier this year. LOL.
Hope you get it figured out. :-)
I feel so uncoordinated when I do things like this. I do the same think, just move to the beat...or try to.
LOL you guys are much MUCH braver than I!
LOL! I'm horrible at stuff like that. Uncoordinated city up in here. YIKES! I'd hate to see myself in an actual class :-X :-X
I think a lot of us feel the same! At least you are trying it in the privacy of your own home...could you imagine going to an actual class and trying?! HORROR!
Youtube was meant to capture scenes such as this...
I think if you got your HR up and didn't knock over anything or hurt yourselves, you did good!
LOL... I went through the same thing with P90X. Some of the things they were doing were A) too fast for me and B) not being executed properly. I'm happy to report this second time around I am doing mo better! Do your best, forget the rest!! DVD ain't goin nowhere!
Yeah, I'm not so coordinated on that stuff either. At least you tried!
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