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Ilyse Baker Your Sexy Everything is a lower body inspired workout.   The workout is composed of mini routines from 5 to 8 minutes. Each routine has a particular focus. Ilyse incorporates total body moves in each mini workout that gives the routine a cardio effect. There are two participants along with Ilyse.  One person is showing more basic beginner moves.  The other person is showing intermediate moves. Ilyse is the one doing the advance moves. The workouts are short but challenging. The Tabata workout comes with a picture in picture (PIP) that demos the move during the 10 second rest. The Thighs workout runs through a series of squats and lunges. There are also some plank jacks in this workout. The Calves workout consists of calve raises, hops and rock and roll calves done in a plank position. Glutes is where you get down on all fours working hydrants and donkey kicks. There is also a series of single leg squats and balance work. The Dancer's Floor...

Ilyse Baker's Dancinerate Sazzy Jazz and Hip Hop Fusion is Ilyse's second Dancinerate workout.  This workout has two dances, one is jazz base and on is hop hop base.  Each has its own warm up and cool down and both routines clock in at around 26 minutes. Ilyse follows a definite pattern in teaching the routines. She introduces the move with slow counts that she runs through three times.  Ilyse then has you rehearse the move at tempo for three times through.  The move is added to the routine and you take it from the top three times. The whole routine is around eight 8 counts. So its not a long routine.  At the end of the workout, Ilyse takes you through the routine for several runs giving you the opportunity for more calorie burn. The music changes as the routine moves along. So you are performing the same moves to different music and different parts of the music. I like this workout. I think I like this slightly better than the first workout. My favor...

Dancinerate is a 57 minute workout if you choose to "Play All".  Otherwise it is two separate dance workouts.  One is called Sexy Broadway Jazz and the other is Hip Hop Funk. The warm up is quite fast.  Ilyse really just jumps right into it.  Once you get into the dances, Ilyse teaches you a set a moves (I want to say around 32 counts) at a slow tempo. She then repeats the slow tempo once more before taking you to full tempo. This is pretty much how she taught the whole workout. Two times through at a slow tempo, two times through at tempo before moving to add the next set of (32 counts) moves. The dances were not that hard to learn. I think they would have been easier to learn if she taught each move by 8 count instead of by name.  This was particularly true because not every move had a name - at least not that she called out.  Some of the moves she did name were the booty move, the groove it in, open the door,  the fosse walk, take a walk, bod...