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Simone De La Rue's Full Body Workouts from her YouTube 14-Day Challenge series. The 14-Day Challenge Series include 14 workouts. Day 5 and Day 12 are Full Body workouts . In these two workouts, Simone starts off with her signature warm up and then she moves into a cardio dance segment. The cardio segment in day 5 is Sixteen Candles. After cardio segment, Simone moves into Upper Body.    In Day 5, Upper body was biceps and triceps. In Day 12, upper body was shoulders. This was followed by another cardio segment, where Simone picked up on the early dance cardio segment and taught the rest of the choreography.  After the second cardio tune came the legs segment. In Day 5, Simone uses a loop band and she had you do a series of squats, leg lifts, abductions, and band walks.  In Day 12, the leg segment was floor based in mostly table top position. Day 5 concluded with a stretch, and Day 12 concluded with core/abs and a brief stretch.   14-Day Challenge Day 5 - Fu...

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...

Simone's De La Rue The Signature Classes workout DVD contains two 55 minute workouts. DVD Menu offers the following options: Workout 1 - Full Body Workout 2 - Dance Cardio Workout 1 Full Body contains the following segments (57:25) 1.  Warm up - about 3 minutes 2.  Dance Cardio Routine 1- about 3 minutes 3.  Upper Body 1 - uses a pair of 3 to 5 lbs dumbbells, ~ 5 minutes 4.  Upper Body 2 - this is floor based, pushups, dips, ~ 5 minutes 5.  Dance Cardio Routine 2 - about 3 minutes 6.  Lower Body  - table top, donkey kicks, leg lifts, hamstring pulses. -lying side outer hip, shootouts,  about 20 minutes 7.  Dance Cardio Routine 3 -  about 3 minutes 8.  Core work 1 - plank work - about 5 minutes 9.  Core work 2 - situps, lower leg lifts - about 3 minutes 10.  Cool down - stretch, about 4 minutes Workout 2 Dance Cardio contains the following segments  (52:47) 1.  Warm up - about 3 minutes 2...