Crunch Cardio Go-Go Dance

I was somewhat surprised by how much I enjoyed this DVD. It's an all-cardio dance workout which is accompanied by various styles of dance music, much of it having a jazz, broadway, funk or disco flare interwoven into a modern techno/electronica sound. The all-female exercisers are dressed in varying colorful, cute outfits and the instructor, Gypsy Clark, is perfectly fitting for this workout with her peppy, upbeat personality. What I especially enjoyed about this video is that many of the dance moves were relatively new to me and seemed fluid, fresh and feminine, which is a nice change of pace from the standard cha chas and mambos I'm used to. Although this is mostly lower impact, it will elevate your heart rate (although it won't leave you dripping in sweat), especially once you've mastered the moves enough to really throw yourself into them to increase the intensity. Overall this is a fun, girly workout suitable for beginners, on lighter intensity days, or for anyone who likes dance workouts and is looking for something new and exciting to try!

Rating: Good

Crunch Cardio Go-Go Dance runs approximately 41 minutes with warmup and cooldown. Instructor Gypsy Clark does a reasonably good job with cueing. Very personable instructor, although I didn't need to hear how "hot" I was every few minutes!

There's some impact in this one but I found it easy to modify. I didn't have any issues with doing this one on carpet.

There's some Go-Go type dancing in this workout, but there's also some fun 50's burlesque style dancing (think Gypsy Rose Lee) which I had fun doing. Unfortunately, I couldn't really get the heartrate up there, but I can't elevate my heartrate with my Island Girl hula workouts either...this is just some fun dancing stuff.

The music was adequate...however, there's one section in the workout where the music didn't match the movement. I'm guessing that Crunch couldn't get the license to the music piece they wanted and subbed another music piece in, which was a tiny bit slower tempo than what the dancers were using. I recognized it from Crunch Cardio Salsa...it didn't really work for the dance moves in the section. It was a little off-putting seeing the dancers one beat ahead of myself...Crunch REALLY should have fixed the music in that section before releasing the DVD. But it's just 5 minutes out of the 41 minutes of workout, so I'll survive.

Recommend to intermediates with some dance experience.

This video was okay, and this is coming from someone who loves dance based workout DVDs. It was a lot of bouncing around instead of true dancing. The instructor is easy to follow and her directions are clear enough, but I found her dancers to be a bit on the annoying side. I also didn't get what was so "go-go" dance about it. It jumped from jazz to hip hop to latin...didn't flow well. However, like another reviewer mentioned, the movements are sexy and feminine. I would say a person who has 2 left feet wouldn't enjoy this video too much.

It does give you a low-impact aerobic workout, but I don't think you'd magically lose 20 pounds doing this video, you'd need a more challenging video. Regardless, I worked up a sweat but I found myself a bit bored and wondering how much longer I had until the workout was over. A bit too cheesy and silly for my taste. Richard Simmons DVD's it is!