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  May 2024 Workout Rotation    Morning Workouts Sunday - Treadmill Monday - Cathe PHA Tuesday - Jessica Smith Interval Wednesday - JS Barre or Cathe PHA Thursday - Jessica Smith M.I.S.S Friday - JS Barre or Cathe PHA Saturday - Pool Type I have also schedule Yoga and Zumba workouts for the evenings.  I may or may not get to those. Evening Workouts Sunday - Tamilee stretch Monday - Bodi Yoga Retreat Tuesday - Bodi Yoga Retreat Wednesday - Zumba or Bodi Yoga Retreat Thursday - Zumba or Bodi Yoga Retreat Friday - Evening Rest Saturday - Active Rest

December 2023 Workout Rotation. Sunday - Treadmill Monday - Yoga Tuesday - Zumba Wednesday - Yoga Thursday - Zumba Friday - Lower Body Saturday - Rest I will be following the treadmill workout with a stretch session.  Monday through Friday. I will do single upper body part session.  

                                                                                                   October 2022 Monthly Rotation This October, I will be focusing on Kelly Coffey-Meyer workouts. This is in preparation for the Coffeyfit Road Trip.  After the road trip, I plan to do Jessica Smith and Zumba workouts to round out the month.  I also have Andrea Rogers Xtend Stretch workouts planned.  

  April 2021 My rotation for April consisted of treadmill, Cathe, The FIRM, Zumba and one of Jessica Smith's new workout. I have not been particularly motivated to complete an actual rotation. So for April, I decided to do a plan but not hold myself to the plan if I felt like doing something else. Originally, for April I had all Cathe workouts schedule, but later decided to switch it up. The only thing that I am committed to is to do at least 30 minutes of any workout  six days a week. Most workouts that I schedule are between 30 and 40 minutes.  The only real exception was Sunday treadmill runs.

April 2020 This month it is Tracie and Jessica and little bit of Zumba.  I am upping my Sunday treadmill runs to 2.5 miles. On the 27th and 28th of the month, I will be doing Jessica Total Body Strength workouts. The other Jessica workouts will be 30 minute Walk On workouts. The two Zumba workouts are also 30 minute workouts.

Bonus 20 Minute Strong By Zumba workout is a bonus workout included on the Strong by Zumba DVD.  Strong by Zumba is  High-Intensity Cardio & Tone workout that is set (choreograph) to the beat of the music.  The instructor is Ai Lee Syarief. The 20-Minute Demo is just a brief version of the 60-minute class. It includes its own warm up and cool down. The warm up was about 2 minutes and 15 seconds in length and the cool down is around 3 minutes. The 20-Minute Demo workout is chaptered. It also contains the Fired Up and Push Your Limits quadrants. Between the quadrants you get a recovery period. Each segments features two additional cast members but as the workout progresses, the cast members change in and out. There is NOT a modifier for the bonus workout. The moves are similar to the moves in the longer version of the workout.  I like the shorter version just a little bit better than the longer version. Oh I forgot to mentioned when I reviewed the 60 m...

Zumba Strong is a 60-minute high-intensity cardio and toning workout. The toning exercises are bodyweight only - no equipment is used. The entire workout is set to the beat of the music. Often the instructor, Ai Lee Syarief will introduce you to a move at a slower tempo and then she increases the pace at which you perform the move. You are doing all moves at least twice through per lead. There is a warm up and cool down. Between the warm up and cool down the workout is broken up into four quadrants. The quadrants are: Ignite Fire Up Push Your Limits Floor Play Within each quadrant, there are tracks, Each track is a song.  Prior to the start of a track, subtitle bar appears on the left to tell you what exercises you will be performing for that track. Between each quadrant, there is a mini recharge segment that serves as your recovery.  Along with bodyweight moves, many of the moves performed are inspired by mixed martial arts.  The choreography i...

November 2017 Monthly Rotation Hello All.  Here is to a good and productive November. I have been sick and I missed a couple of workouts last month. So I am moving those workouts to this month. November will feature Classical Stretch/Essentrics, Zumba, Tracy Anderson, Fitness Favorites Live workouts and Cardio Coach workouts.

15 Day Fit Zumba Fit DVD is one of the three DVDs that are a part of the 15 Day Fit Total Body Transformation program.  The system comes with 8 workouts on three DVDs.' The DVDs are : 15 Day Lower Body Fit       Fit Legs & Booty (15 min)       Fit Lean Legs (15 min)       Fit Booty Camp (15 min) 15 Day Cardio Fit       Fit Core + Strength (15 min)       Fit Fat Blast (15 min) 15 Day Zumba Fit      Zumba Let's Dance! (30 min)      Zumba Max 1 (30 min)      Beto's Ab-Stravanaganza (15 min). I only did the Zumba workouts and thus will only be reviewing those.  Beto is the lead for all the workouts and the workouts are narrated. Zumba Beginner's Let's Dance is the first workout on this DVD. In the intro Beto, tells us we already know the steps, however there is not a learn the step sequence on this DVD. This workout ...

Saw this workout in Walmart and decided to pick it up to keep with the country theme workouts I have been doing this month. Zumba Country stars Kass Martin as the lead.  There are four other cast members hanging out with Kass in the Zumba Country workouts.  The DVD contains two workouts and offer the following options. Crazy Country     Voice On     Voice Off Burn it Up      Voice On      Voice Off Crazy Country is 32 minutes in length and features the following tracks: Cotton Eye Joe A Good Man Little Miss Honky Tonk Devil Went Down To Georgia Bubba Shot The Jukebox Something That I like About a Honky Tonk Sin Wagon Eatin' My Heart Out Waterfall Burn It Up  clocks in at around 28 minutes and features the following tracks: Hey Doctor Tie It Up Make You Mine I Play Chicken With The Train All American Country Girl Long Way To Go Hold My Hand If I were to compare these w...

Zumba Sentao is led by Marcie Bienevedes  It  is 37 minutes long and uses a chair. The song tracks in the workout are: 1.        Electro Step 2.        Solito Y Sin Ti 3.        Respeta Pa’ Que Te Respeten 4.        West African Jungle 5.        Groove to the World 6.        Vem   Vem (Remix) 7.        Maconda The chair is used throughout and it is used for more than just a prop or something to sit on.       First you use the chair in a variety of positions and thus you move it around quite a bit.   As well as dancing around the chair, Marcie also has you use the chair for resistance.   You are using the chair to do triceps dip, push ups, shoulder row and core moves.  Marcie incorporates lunges and...

Target and Tone contains two 35 minute workouts. The DVD offers the Verbal Cues On and Verbal Cues Off options.  Verbal cuing is standard cuing. In other wise it is not narrated. The first workout is Shoulders/Back and it is led by Loretta.  Along with Loretta there are two other participants.  Loretta takes you through a series of tracks focusing on shoulder and back moves such as rows, rear flys, shoulder press, upright rows, and front raise.  Most of the toning is incorporated in the dance.  There were two tracks that contain some isolated exercises for the back in the form of rows and rear flys. The workout uses toning sticks and the sticks are used in all the tracks except for first, second, and last. Shoulder/Back Song Tracks 1.    Despierta 2.    Status Dance 3.    Ay Que Yo La Enamore 4.    Chica Practica 5.    Pasito A Paso 6.    Tanto 7.    Sa...

Toning 101 is led by Jhon Gonzalez ad Loretta Bates. Toning 101 comes in two versions.  The first version is with Demo & Safety Tips On. If you choose this version then the workout is around 18 minutes.  The second version is with Demo & Safety Tips Off. If you choose this option, the workout is around 10 minutes.  In the Safety Tips On version, Jhon and Loretta breaks down each step adding safety tips. After each step is taught, music is added starting with a slow tempo.  The tempo increases as you do more reps.  Expect lots of starting and stopping as Jhon and Loretta demonstrate and have you practice each move. The steps that Jhon and Loretta demonstrate are: Front Step & Turn Machete Fly & Pull Triceps Side Travel Sleepy Leg Lunge and Crunch Torso Rotation You are using the Toning Sticks in Toning 101. The music that appears in Toning 101 shows up in both workouts of DVD-2 Target and Tone.

Zumba Tone Up contains six workouts that comes on four DVDs.  The system also includes 2.5 lb toning sticks. The six workouts are : Toning 101 Amazing Abs Target and Tone:  Shoulders/Back Target and Tone:  Biceps/Triceps Zumba Sentao 30 Minute Burn The Amazing Abs workout and the 30 Minute Burn workout are the same workouts that are a  part of the Incredible Results System.  So I will not review them here as I have reviewed them for the Incredible Results System.

Zumba 101 Can't Dance stars Beto Perez as  the lead instructor.  Along with Beto, there is Julianna Sartori and Priscilla Sartori who are the background exercises. This DVD contains two programs. The first program is Step By Step.  In this workout Beto takes you through four core dances of Zumba. The dances are Merengue, Reggaeton, Cumbia and Salsa.  Beto breaks down each of these dances teaching them each to a song. After Beto demonstrates the four dances, he takes you through a mini workout that is about 15 minutes long.   Step By Step breaks out as follows: Fiesta - Merengue Lo Que Ellas Quieren - Reggaeton Nena - Cumbia Pachanga - Salsa Tiempo De Bailar - Merengue Pop Baila Mi Soca - Soca Pam Pam - Merengue Baracundera - Cooldown The second program is Dance, Dance, Dance. The order of the workout is very similar to the Zumba 101 Step by Step Class. The only difference in the songs is that Beto adds a warm up song:  24 hours. When th...

Zumba Latin Burst is a cardio interval workout that features the Zumba cardio burst.  Latin Burst features the same lead (Steve Boedt) and cast members as Global Burst. Also Latin Burst has the same warm up and cool down as Global Burst. Latin Burst workout is very similar to the Global Burst workout with the difference being the tunes in Latin Burst are mostly from the Latin music genre. So there is Salsa, Reggaeton, Samba and Merengue. Steve lets you know that the burst is coming by displaying superman arms.  The burst last probably for about 20 to 30 seconds. The burst are set to the music so the length of time of each burst is different and also the amount of rest between the burst is different.  The Tunes in Latin Burst are: Bass Go Boom Tiene Swing  Dance, Go Ese Hombre Ta Ciego Sube La Temperatura Comienza A Bailar Zumba Lluvia I thought this was a good time efficient workout. 3 & 3/4 stars

Zumba Global Burst Cardio Interval workout features Steve Boedt as the lead.  The workout includes two additional cast mates, one of which shows lower intensity modifications. Global Burst features music from different international beats. During each song, Steve adds in cardio burst  to add intensity and increase the heart rate. You know the burst are coming by the Super Man arms.  Essentially cardio burst are moves that include some type of jumping , hopping or running or are using your arms full out with a large range of motion.  The cardio burst last for about 30 seconds. I did feel some of the cardio burst a bit repetitive especially because the same burst will repeat throughout a tune. The back of the DVD case said the workout is 29 minutes plus an optional warm up which is just under 4 minutes and an optional cool down which is just over 4 minutes. However the actual DVD menu doesn't allow you to select just the workout but you can chapter pass the w...

Zumba Step It UP High-Intensity Training uses the Zumba Rizer. It is led by Marcie Benavides and it is 34 minutes in length. Joining Marcie, is Nick and Ricardo.  Nick is the modifier.  He shows less intense moves throughout the workout. The segments are : Party (Everybody Dance) No Te Soporto (Merenegue) Hasta Amanecer (Cumbia) Pablito Robafaldas (Salsa) Alegria Esta No Ar (Calyspo-Samba) Rockin With the Best (Reggaton) Marcha Back In Action Bailando Te Quiero Ver I liked this workout well enough.  I felt it was more athletic base than dance based. The only thing that annoyed me was the cuing (combining the visual with voice over).  There were more than a few times when Marcie called  the move late  None of the moves were hard or moves I hadn't seen before but I was tripping all over the place. We would do a straddle with a side kick or a side tap step but she wouldn't call it until after the first rep. Other than that annoyance, it's a g...

Zumba Max Beto's Maximum Calorie Burn is a 60 minute workout.  Beto states that this is his "most intense class". And I agree.  It contains super high energy throughout all the tracks and the only real break you got is when you moved from track to track.  The track switching transition felt shorter to me in this workout than in previous Zumba workouts. With the exception of track two, Beto leads the entire workout. The second track is lead by the Zumba Twins (Alicia and Tonya). The DVD comes with an English and Spanish option.  It also comes with verbal cuing on and off option.  The "on" option is voice-over. Throughout the workout, the class contracts and expands as members come in and out during the start of each track. The Tracks: I Wanna Jump Bounce (I Like It When You Do) Ta' Encedio Vamos Pa' La Pista La Cumbia Caliente DJ Dale Play Violint Marioneta Rock & Roll North America Empezo El Show Uno Sabe Bien Indian Moonshine...

The last group of workouts in the Zumba Incredible Results System are 30 Minute Burn and Amazing Abs. 30 Minute Burn features Gina Grant. Gina leads you through the warm up.  As the workout moves on, various guest instructors join Gina on stage for a track segment.  During the last track the guest instructors join Gina on stage for the cool down. You do not get the option for verbal cuing with this workout.  It is only visual cuing. The set looks to be a warehouse and there are about a 100 people working out with Gina and the guest instructors.  You can see people sitting in chairs and standing on the upper levels just watching the filming of the workout. The tracks are: Dale Al 100 Pegao Ven Y Baila Tu Carinito Pa' Que Lo Bailen Bien Mueve La Cadera (2013 Remix) Quiero Bailar Contigo I enjoyed 30 Minute Burn.  3 & 3/4 stars Amazing Abs is lead by Beto Perez and it uses a chair for the workout.  Beto calls this his Sentao workout....