New York City Ballet Workout | Barbara Adolph

New York City Ballet Workout | Barbara Adolph | lousy narration, but an excellent workout

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	New York City Ballet Workout Barbara Adolph Palm Pictures / Umvd, 2001 average customer review:based on 265 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fun Workout

Truly a strengthening and lengthening workout. Not as fast or as cardio as one might expect.

lousy narration, but an excellent workout

This video/DVD provides a great workout, although it's a little tough to follow at first. In a nutshell, the exercises are great and will get your heart pumping, but the narration and cues are pretty terrible. The narrator identifies the exercises -- i.e. plies, passes, etc. -- but he doesn't really describe the exercises most of the time, so you either have to know the terminology or watch the dancers closely to see what they're doing. With a working knowledge of some basic ballet terms, this is not too much of a problem for most of the workout. However, during the warm-up and certain Pilates-type exercises done while laying on the floor, you may need to watch and "rewind" first before trying the exercises. The warm-up includes some fast footwork, and it's hard to do some of the floor exercises while still keeping an eye on the dancers. Overall, though, I really enjoyed the workout, and the music and film quality is very good. Also, the workout gets bonus points for the fact that, during some exercises, you can see the dancers' legs shaking slightly from the strain of holding certain positions. It's nice to see that, beautiful and fit as they are, the dancers are still human, and the workout is hard work for them, too!

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Beautiful.

I enjoyed the workout very much. It's tastefully done.
The dancers are exquisite. The music is beautiful.
Over all, it's a very enjoyable workout for me.

Good workout for student dancers over a long summer

I'm fifteen and I have been dancing for 8 years. Over the summer each year I always find myself getting out of shape. The NYC ballet workout is no excuse for a real class, but it has helped me stay in shape over the summer better than other years. I would reccomend it to anyone....ballet in general is a thorough workout. The verbal cues are pretty much bogus so mainly just focus on the dancers, but otherwise--> a great dvd!

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