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Not a bad workout, but...
I decided to try Lotte Berk because I needed a low-impact shape-up to complement weekly ballet classes. This isn't a bad way to start; it resembles ballet, yoga, and Pilates. The Lotte Berk Method relies more on holding muscle contractions than on endless reps of a move, and in that respect it can be challenging. Although I didn't feel anything in my abs the next day, I will say that my thighs were extremely sore; however, this may have been because I did the bonus "Blast" workout directly after finishing the main one. The main problem I have with this video is that Stephanie, the instructor, talks WAY too much. Midway through the video I was yelling at the TV to just shut up and get on with the workout already! Also, what's with the "rich-women-browse-high-end-boutiques" opening? Still, this wasn't a bad workout and it doesn't take too much time, which is definitely a point in its favor.

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Wacky porno music but a cool program.
I'm looking for something easy enough for an uncoordinated unmotivated unathletic asthmatic couch potato to do, but with payoffs in flexibility, strength and all around toning. Based on recommendations, I'm giving this a try.

I've viewed the video a couple of times now, but haven't quite worked up the gumption to do it, though I think once I'm over the trepidation, I could manage to keep up by doing the modified moves demonstrated by one of the other pretzel-women in the video.

The moves look like a combination of ballet and yoga, which seems reasonable. I can do without the spiritual aspects of yoga, and I don't have the youth and athleticism for real hardcore ballet, but the Lotte Berk video is a nice common ground.

The background porno music is downright weird. I guess there's not much in the copyright-free generic backing tracks category for "not-quite-as-fast-as-disco" but "not-quite-as-slow-as-meditation" music except the stuff they used for this program, which sounds suspiciously like what those San Fernando artisans use in more horizontally oriented entertainment features. I may have a hard time doing this program without laughing if my parrot decides to start moaning in time with the music (I have NO idea where he learned that. None.)

My only real annoyance with this video is the title sequence. You know that glitchy wiggly effect in too many car commercials, where it's meant to look edgy and cool, like an 8 mm home movie is jumping out of the sprockets and the image is dancing all over the screen? Yeah, that one. It was annoying when I first saw it, and it just gets more and more irritating the more often I see it. Does this effect now come free with some shareware desktop video production package or something? Jeez. It's like, so 1990s, you know?

Anyway, I recommend this to my uncoordinated fellow exercise-phobics. There is nothing here that requires extensive choreography or an inbuilt sense of rhythm. The instructor is all tough-love and firm, and she doesn't go on about how much fun we're all having dancing around in our cute spandex outfits to frantic generic disko toonz, or run around like a screaming cokehead like that guy Peter Small or whatever his name is.

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Yuck, I didn't like it.
The instructor is very irritating. She does not make it fun and she is militaristic. I tried it once and couldn't stand it for more than a few minutes. Maybe this method is good with a different instructor or for you if you like the tough stuff. She's kind of creepy the way she stares at the camera. I put it away and tried it again later, but it still didn't work for me. It's in my reject pile. You'd be better off with a Karen Voight or the 8 min As Seen On TV Set.
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