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Summary: Donna Richardson: 3 day rotation 2000
Review: Donna has three 20 minute workouts. They are fun, easy to learn, and get your blood pumping. Her group is real loud and always cheering! She has kickboxing, circuit toning, or funky dance moves to choose from. You can also do these three routines with just her on an advanced level. Her cool down is a bit rushed. She goes through the stretches quickly.
Donna is real smiley and pumped up and funky.
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Summary: a really fun workout DVD
Review: If you went to this class in real life, you'd go back. The "students" are cheerful, healthy girls of different physical types, the instructor is energetic and knowledgable, and the moves are fun. The workouts are only 20 minutes long, so it's great if you're trying to squeeze exercise in before your workday, but you get the benefits (energy for the day, slightly sore muscles the next day) as long as you put plenty of effort into it.
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Summary: MUTE
Review: The only way I could view this DVD was on MUTE!.. I can't even tell you what some of the moves were! I gave this DVD to a friend(?) There was too much sister girl stuff going on for me to do the workout. If you like your workout to resemble A NIGHT OUT AT THE NIGHTCLUB, then you will TOLERATE this video.
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Summary: contageous
Review: It is sometimes difficult to concentrate on a workout when the instructor is taking it so seriously. While I realize working out is a serious thing... adding light-heartedness, ease, cheer, and plain enjoyment can really change your whole outlook on what you are actually doing. I completed this workout and felt so great... Actually, I felt as if perhaps I really didn't workout enough because I really enjoyed Donna's style. The next day, my body truly felt it. WOW! I love to workout and thought that I wouldn't feel it... But I did. You go GIRL!!
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Summary: Simple, Quick and Easy Workout for anyone
Review: I've been workouting out off and on for about two years. I'm in pretty good shape and I get bored easily by classes that don't challenge me. Ms. Richardson's DVD is EXCELLENT. Her workout actually has me breaking out in a sweat!! I wish she could've included an Ab workout as a bonus. Donna looks great so she'll give you that extra motivation to push yourself a little harder.
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Summary: Great video!
Review: I am fairly new to working out and I find many videos are too complicated. I spend more time trying to figure out where to put my feet and hands and don't hardly get a work-out. Donna Richardson's video is a great workout...but easy to follow!! I really enjoy it!! I am going to buy the 4 day rotation now because I loved it so much!
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Summary: Not for me
Review: I hated this video. Sorry to say. The people in it were annoying. I couldn't focus they were so annoying and overly into it. I prefer the Minna workouts or Tami ones, but these, too many people and they were all annoying!
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Summary: Donna is awesome!
Review: This is a great workout DVD. With three different forms of exercise to choose from- Circuit Toning, Dance Aerobics, and Kickboxing, you can't be bored! As a bonus, they have these same three forms in an advanced method. 6 total workouts, 20 minutes each. Fun and varied. Donna keeps you moving, without being obnoxious about it. I recommend!
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Summary: Three 20 minutes segments to do it all.
Review: This video has a kickboxing section, a toning section and a low impact dance aerobics section. I liked the toning section because the leg exercises kick butt. If you are really trying to emphasize your arms and shoulders you won't be happy but do not fear your overall body is covered. I find that when I do some of my videos with friends or family people who tended to cheat (not doing full repetitions) were the main people who claimed they didn't get a good workout. If you do the moves correctly there is no way this won't be effective. The kickboxing routine is nothing fancy. I have about 15 kickboxing tapes including this one and compared to the others this one is ok. Donna's tape is good in that you will definitely feel it the next day and she doesn't not have you get into positions where you can do damage to a knee or some other body part. She should give more instruction on punch throwing and foot position while kicking. I have to admit it took me a few months after purchasing this video to even try the last aerobics section. I reviewed the entire tape before including it in my exercise routine and I just wasn't impressed with the third section. It just looked like a bunch of side steps done to a funky beat. But one day I wasn't feeling up to a switching tapes and I wanted to workout a little longer than just doing the kickboxing section so I kept going. I was so surprised .... I do believe my mouth dropped open. I wear a heart rate monitor so I know for sure where I stand. I workout on carpet so some of the moves where she slides her feet on the wood floor required me to pick my feet up but overall it was to the point and effective. I thought there is no way these simple moves can be doing any good. Again, if you do or try to do what Donna is demonstrating you will get a workout and that's a workout in your target heart rate zone. I don't know that I would have the same results had I not started immediately after the kickboxing section. As any experienced exerciser knows once you get your heart rate up, you have less trouble maintaining it. I am not convinced this section alone would get my heart rate up to the required level fast enough to be effective in just 20 minutes but doing this straight after kickboxing kept my heart rate going and it was fun.I now do at least one of the 15 minute sections in my two week rotation. I generally workout an hour a day 5 to 6 days a week and I like to mix up my videos and this one fits perfectly into my routine.
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Summary: less banter, more instruction!
Review: While I enjoyed Donna Richardson's "enthusiatic" contributions on the Buns of Steel Platinum series, this video was an overdose of such. On this DVD, I enjoyed the Dance Aerobics and the Kickboxing sections to a certain extent but there is way too much distracting banter going on in the background. The Kickboxing section definitly needs more instruction on the proper excution of the moves and less kidding around. If Donna decides to do a series where she concentrates more on serious instruction, I would definitly buy it. Her moves are great but lets get serious!
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