Bollyrobics Dance Workout

I first previewed this DVD through my online video rental before purchasing it through Amazon. I love Bollywood movies, music and dance and needed some motivation to get moving. This DVD fit the bill. If you are someone with a great deal of dance experience it may not be the program for you. If, however, you are like myself and have neglected yourself for a few years and want a fun way to get back into the swing of things, I recommend this DVD. The steps are basic which means that will a little practice you can pick them up. I admit it can feel a little slow learning the movements but once you have them down, you can move onto the dance portion and this is where the fun begins. Is it a stunning Bollywood number? No, but it does have the fun, flirty feel and if you are a fan of Bollywood, you will definitely recognize many of the moves and even the music.

Good music. I'll give it that. I just took a Bollywood dancing course and saw some other DVDs and based on both bollywood dancing AND aerobics dvds, I can't recommend this to anyone. The step by step is not. I've taken a lot of dance classes and been in a lot of step, floor, and dance gym classes and used many workout DVDs and this was unhelpful and, just weird. The dancer is dancing on top of what looks like a Windows 3.0 title screen, with glittery, cheesy sparkles raining down in the background while the dancer (who takes up about 1/10th of the screen)is dancing in the middle - but seriously I couldn't figure out if she was computer generated or not for the first 10 minutes until she made a facial expression convincing me otherwise.The warm up is nearly precisely the same as the step by step guide except she stops every few minutes to strike a breathing pose, but there is very little 'warm up' to it other than that.Once in the 'step by step' portion, she goes through moves very quickly, from stepping outwards to including arm gestures in the span of seconds before really establishing the foot work. This is then repeated many times, I suppose to teach you the dance, but realistically, I didn't feel like I was doing a workout so much as trying desperately to flail my arms about while keeping up with footwork. It wasn't exciting for me and I was really horrified by the cheese factor with the computer graphics in the background and the lack of focus and detail on the dancer.The enjoyment I got from it was watching the final dance performance, which I watched and didn't bother to participate in because I had given up on the step by step portion (out of boredom) long ago. I think this one will be shelved, or even sold second-hand because I won't use it again.

This workout was easy to follow and supprisingly worked up a good sweat. I like the different choices in workouts.

Out of twenty five or so dance workouts this is one of my absolute favorites! The set up is wonderful. First there is a warm-up (the same for all three dances, as is the cool down) then you can separately choose to learn the dances step by step, or simply do the dance routine which is great once you have learned the steps. In other words you don't have to go through the learning the steps precess EVERY time you want to do this workout. You can just dance! The dances are done to the entire song. The music is fun as are the dance moves (they get your heart rate up). The instruction is clear. Some of the choreography is challenging, which I like so that it doesn't become boring to quickly. I cannot recommend this workout enough. I wish I owned more workouts like this one.

If you have any dance experience whatsoever, the first routine with the veil will be boring. The only "fun" thing is the veil work, and it's repetitive and slow. The first song is not terribly exciting and reminds me more of bellydancing than bollywood. Bollywood is really bouncy and high-energy and the later two songs embody that more. It's a fun DVD overall, with a good progression, but for someone with any experience, you may be bored.

This DVD has a very small image of the dancer/instructor against a very large background. I don't want to have to put on glasses to see the moves which I am trying to execute during a workout. I have a collection of over 70 workout DVD's and this is the only one during which I couldn't see the instructor well enough to execute the moves.

I have somewhat recently gotten into dance workout videos and this one is great because it's very dancy, and I really dug the music. I thought the simplicity of the filming and the background graphics were interesting and modern. I have very little dance experience, so some of the moves were challenging, but I don't mind, I did the best I could, and I know I'll get better. This kind of video may not be for everyone, from reading some of the reviews, but it inspires me. Worth the money for me, for sure.

I've been dancing for 6 years and have recently been using dance even more as a fitness tool. The Bollyrobics Dance Workout had 3 really cute songs choreographed to workout with. I found the songs to download from Amazon so I could use them and I've enjoyed it very much, but am disappointed that it is the only one. I wish they would make more of Bollyrobics workouts!