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Body By Simone Arms, Back and Core i s a 60 minute workout. It is a cardio and upper body/core workout.  The workout features a cool upbeat soundtrack and all the moves are timed to the music. For some of the exercises, there are two modifiers that show alternate ways of doing the move.  The workout uses two pairs of dumbbells and a band. The sections of the workout are : Warm up Dance Cardio 1 Upper Body 1 - 3 pound weights Upper Body 2 - 5 pound weights Dance Cardio 2 Band Work 1 Band Work 2 Seated Band Work Body Weight Exercises Dance Cardio 3 Prone Series Abs Stretch It is a solid low-weight high-rep upper body workout.  Simone does give you rest periods in between. Simone also incorporates standing core work with the upper body weighted segments.  I did not care for the band work as much. I also did not like that the DVD was not chaptered.  60 minute plus workout, it would be nice to be able to jump around and maybe just do all the upper body segments or al...

Trampoline Cardio clocks in at 59:07. Along with Simone, there are four other cast members. The workout starts with a floor warm-up. It is the same warm-up sequence that has been in all of her workouts. Workout Breakdown: Floor warm up Freestyle on the trampoline - to warm up the feet Dance Cardio 1 - 16 Candles Dance Cardio 2 - Hurl Upper Body using toning band wrist weights Dance Cardio 3 - Rave continue to use toning band Mega Mix - Join dances 1, 2, & 3 Lower Body Strength and Stability Planks Abs Sprints and Jumps Stretch The set is a warehouse, not the same as the other workouts. This warehouse is a bit dingy.  The casts are outfitted all in white I thought that was a pretty cool look. Great soundtrack. Many of the dance routines in the workout also appear in Simone's traditional dance workout as does some of the music selections. This is a high energy fast past workout and again you are basically following along. Although as state...

Simone's Hip, Thighs, and Buns workout is a 55-minute lower body focused workout. The workout breakdown : (59:50) Warm up Cardio 1 Standing Leg Sequence Standing Stability using the bbs Band Cardio 2 - The towel Epic leg series - floor based side 1 (optional bbs Band) Epic leg series - floor based side 2 (optional bbs Band) Band Cardio Plank series - use bbs Band Abs - use the towel Cool down Equipment list includes bbs band (this comes with the DVD), towel, mat, This workout was very challenging, especially the epic leg series.  Expect lots of reps as you are working each side for about 10-minutes during that series.  A couple of the cast members do show modifications for some exercises. The choreography in the cardio segments is really basic so you are able to just follow along.  In the toning segments, Simone does do a good job telling you what is coming next. The set in this workout is the industrial looking warehouse with the huge windows. The s...

Dance Cardio is a new DVD workout by Simone De La Rue of Body By Simone. Dance Cardio is a 55-minute workout. The basic break down of this workout is: Warm up Freestyle section to warm up your feet Dance Cardio 1 - 16 Candles Dance Cardio 2 - Airplane Interlude - Stability and Balance Dance Cardio 3 - Stomp Dance Cardio 4 - Bootie Bounce Mega Mix Arms Abs Stretch During the dance segments, there is minimum cueing. Most of the cuing consist of her telling us "one more time" and "from the top". You are watching and following along with Simone and the cast.  The choreography is not that hard and she repeats the moves quite a few times so I found the moves fairly easy to pick up.  Some moves she does demonstrate at half speed before doing the sequence at full tempo. There appear to be two sets used in the workout. For the dance routines, you are dancing in an industrial warehouse looking space with huge windows and the other set is just a white ba...