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So Let's Recap! There are 9 Ministry of Sound Pump It Up! fitness DVDs. The Ultimate Dance Workouts they are called.  As far as I can tell, they produced one workout a year starting in 2004. All of the workouts feature music from the original artist and I am guessing they are all artist assigned to or affiliated with the Ministry of Sound record labeled. I bought about 1/2 of the workouts from Amazon. The other workouts I had to get directly from Ministry of Sound. I ordered from their website and the workouts were shipped from England. The workout (in the order of release) are : Pump It Up! (2004) Deanne Berry PIU! BeachBody(2005) Fiona Fagan PIU! High Energy (2006) Fiona Fagan PIU! Burn It Lose It (2007) Deanne Berry PIU! Dancemix (2008) Gareth Walker PIU! Aeroburn (2009) Gareth Walker PIU! 2010 (Powermix) (2010) Dominique Tipper PIU! Bodyburn (2011) Gareth Walker PIU! Move It Lose It  (2012) Jay Ravell Overall  I really like the series a lot but the...

Two Systems I did this month. Insanity and Cardio Karate. I didn't really care for the Insanity System but I liked Cardio Karate a lot. I can really see several of the Cardio Karate workouts showing up in my rotation. My favorite Insanity workouts were: Max Cardio Conditioning Pure Cardio Fast and Furious My favorite Cardio Karate workouts were: Martial Arts Intervals (Disc 12) Cardio Plyo Intervals (Disc 9) Cardio Metabolic Intervals (Disc 10) Extreme Cardio Intervals (Disc 3) Cardio Intense (Disc 5)

Oh I think the weather got to me this month. A couple of days I replaced my workouts with Snow Shoveling. I did manage to get all the FIRM Classics I had scheduled in, but I missed four Kickboxing workouts. Two I just blew off. One I didn't do because of shoveling snow and one I swapped out in place of CIA 2802 All Cardio Latin Xplosion . Love that workout. The two I didn't do just because I didn't feel like it were Patricia Moreno's Kickbox Core Cross Train and Kickbox Yoga Fusion . I did manage to get in a fair amount of evening dance workouts. I reviewed some of them. Others (Dancing with the Stars and Cardio Hip Hop ) I want to do a second time before reviewing them. I did do parts of Tracy's Dance Cardio 2 and Dance Cardio Workout . I decided I need to learn these a combo at a time. The Dance Cardio 2 has 7 combos and the Dance Cardio Workout has 8 combos. (This is what I will be doing in the evening in March - Learning Tracy's cardio workouts a...

Out of the 50 workouts (25 Morning, 25 Evening) I had schedule for January I did all but three of them. I think that is pretty good. I really enjoyed my morning workouts with Amy Bento cardio and Cathe strength workouts. I might try that combination again later in the year. I tried out the FIRM Express workouts . Overall I think they are pretty good. If I do them again, I will probably substitute some of the burst (make up my own). Many of the burst lack the "Oomph" I was looking for. I did like the 8/12 concept though. I also like that they were 20 minutes which is ironic because when I first heard the FIRM Express workouts were going to be 20 minutes, I was not enthused at all. Also in January, I did all of the Tracie Long Longevity and Focus workouts except for Lift Higher (just didn't fit in) and Reach Further (I had this schedule but didn't do it). I like these workouts too especially the Longevity series. A couple of them had to grown on me though. I know the fi...