African Grace: A West African Dance For Cardio Fitness | Debra Bono

African Grace: A West African Dance For Cardio Fitness | Debra Bono | could be better but a decent workout and intro to African dance

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	African Grace: A West African Dance For Cardio Fitness Debra Bono Bayview Films, 2005 average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I like this one

Although I was afraid this would be easy because of the title "African Grace" I quickly discoverd that this DVD is very invigorating workout. (I thought is would be graceful and flowing) I have completed it three times so far and I sweat!
I appreciate the encouraging, clear instructions and the fact that the actual cardio workout is longer than 30 minutes (about 45 minutes total cardio with a 5 minutes warm-up and cool-down) If you want to work out for the 30 minutes, there is a break at about that point so that you can skip the second cardio section and go straight to cool down.
The moves are adv. beg to intermediate because of the steps and rhythms, but nothing to difficult that can't be mastered after a few plays.

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could be better but a decent workout and intro to African dance

I really like Debra Bono and I like this routine, it's just a bit perfunctory. This coming from somebody with a very long dance background who is now taking two courses, sometimes three, in African dance. One of her dancers keeps forgetting steps and getting lost, which is distracting. It is a demanding workout once you get the steps. A bit more cultural background would be great.

The warm up was not very sufficient

Just thought I'd share my two cents here, I thought the video was great but what she said was the warm up section should have been much slower. It felt like I was jumping right into the faster aerobics portion. Muscles need time to be warmed up, stretched, etc., before jumping into fast paced work. I liked Debra and her helpers, and the dance is fun and great exercise. The only problem I had was that the warm up should have *been* more of a warm up.

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