10 Minute Solution Cardio Hip Hop - Thoughts

10 Minute Solutions Cardio Hip Hop is lead by Heather Graham.
Heather takes you through five dance routines that have a hip hop flair to them.
The dances are:
Hip Hop 101
House Party
Signature Moves
Hip Hop Jam
Street Style

Hip Hop 101 starts off with isolation's for the rib cage and the hips.  You do this for about 4 minutes.  This is followed by a series of knee pulls for about a minute.  After this section you move into a mini routine consisting of knee pulls, hip hits, a move called the chicken up and a figure 8 toe taps.

In House Party there is a lot of bouncing and you are working on the balls of your feet.  The first music tune in this section was blah and it faded out.  It didn't sound a strong or loud as the music used in Hip Hop 101.  It was almost background music.  The second tune was a little bit stronger.  Moves called the quick step, slice and wave up appear in this routine.

Signature Moves are Heather's personal favorite hip hop moves.  It started off with hip rolls.  Then came moves such as the Girlie, Kitty Crawl, Cow Girl, and Dainty.  Heather calls this her flirty dance routine.  I like some of the moves but overall, this was my least favorite routine.

Hip Hop Jam has rolls, body rolls and arm rolls.  Moves call the muscle kick, goal post arms and single arm push make up this routine.  I had fun with this.  There is hopping and full body turns in this routine.

Street Style starts off with a series of pumping and syncopation moves to warm up the body.  Single arm pull, whack, the swipe and duck roll follow.  The routines ends with the slinky and sway it back move and the pump it up and down.  This is probably my favorite routine of the bunch.  Although I kept throwing myself off on the single arm pull into the whack. You have to switch arms before the whack and I was trying to whack with the arm I started off with.

Heather teaches each of the dances into, I want to say roughly, two chunks.  As she  introduces a move, she gives each move a name.  She goes over the move for about 8 reps and then she combines the moves in a layered approach.  Occasionally she goes back to the beginning of the routine, taking it from the top.

The dances were not hard to learn.  What I like best is at the end of each routine when you run through all the moves back to back a few times; that is when the dances came together.

3 stars.