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Pump It Up! Body Burn

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Another winner from Ministry of Sound Pump It Up! workout series. Pump It Up! Body Burn brings back Gareth Walker as the lead. In addition to Gareth, there are four cast members. Along with the warm up and stretch, there are five sections in which you can choose from. If you choose all five sections the workout is 90 minutes long. The sections are : Tone Shake It Move It Pop It Lock It Burn It Lose It Legs, Bums, and Tums I really like the create your own workout option and I am glad Ministry of Sound brought that option back in this workout. I chose to do the three dance aerobic sections. My workout ended up being 65 minutes. Both the warm up and stretch are about 10 minutes each. So the sections : Shake It Move It - Gareth delivers a funky club dance but it is doable. I had a lot of fun with this one. Pop It Lock It - This is street dance. This was the most challenging, a lot of staccato moves. There is definitely a learning curve with this dance. Burn It Lose It - This is high...

Pump It Up! Aeroburn - Thoughts

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Pump it Up! Aeroburn clocks in at just over 62 minutes for the main workout. There is also a bonus Classic DanceMix section that is about 12 minutes in length. The Create A Routine option allows you to select the DanceMix section and any of the sections of the main workout. The main workout sections are: Warm It Up Tone It Up Aeroburn 1 Aeroburn 2 Cool It Off Stretch it Out I used the Create A Routine option and I chose the following segments: Warm It Up, Aeroburn 1, Aeroburn 2, Dancemix Classics, Stretch It Out. I did preview the Tone It Up and Cool It Off sections. The Tone It Up sections contains standing toning moves that work the legs and obliques. The Cool It Off section contains floor ab and plank work. Gareth Walker and Stephanie FitzPatrick lead the workout. Really the workout is lead by Gareth with Stephanie providing commentary and tips throughout the workout. Besides Gareth and Stephanie, there are three other cast members. I thought the workout really took sometime...

Pump It Up! Dancemix - Thoughts

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Oh my new favorite workout of 2012. I really really like this workout. Pump It Up Dancemix stars Gareth Walker as the lead. Gareth is a dancer choreographer for many Ministry of Sound workout videos. I will start first by talking about the DVD. The main menu looks like this: Introduction/Tips and Techniques Play Full Workout Skip to section Create Routine Extras Options Extras has interviews with the cast members including Gareth, Ministry of Sound Videos, Trailers, Behind the Scenes and Mobile Downloads. Options allows you to play the workout with or without commentary. It also allows you to play only the music. Skip to Section breaks down as: Warm It up - ~ 8 min Tone It Up - ~ 11 min Dancemix 1 - ~ 15 min Dancemix 2 - ~ 15 min Dancemix 3 - ~ 15 min Cool It Off - ~ 11 min So the workout. Love love the music. The energy was absolutely fantastic and Gareth, he was fun. Gareth teaches the workout in a layered approach. He first starts by showing you the move. He will do the move...