Secret workouts you enjoy

[MARIKA]

OMg great thread! I can,t say an exact workout but whenever I do something with step work I have a huge grin on my face because it takes me bakc usually it's a Jari or Cathe! I wish new step would come out. It died and I don't know why because its good,challenging an effective.

[patrice]

For me it is Kathy Smith's Timesaver Cardio. I still do it on VHS. If I just don't feel like working out and know it is not day off, I do this one. No warm up... Just do it despite the the annoying chatter.

Patrice

[zraipel]

I have a few

Kim Kardashian's Fit in Your Jeans by Friday series
The American Gladiator Workout
Z-Box Fitness -- those ladies are hilarious!!

I know there are more, but that's all I can think of without actually having to look through my DVDs.

[andtckrtoo]

I've been known to bust a move with Richard Simmons on occasion. He still makes me smile.

[Eibhinn]

Originally Posted by vanessakm

I also like Patricia Moreno's "IntenSati" workout, which is a good one. But it's on the touchy feely side with the aphorisms you are supposed to recite while you do it ("Every day, in every way. I am, I'm better. I'm better. Yes!") I started this workout Friday night, went to open the window then thought, "Dude, my neighbors could hear....."

I couldn't handle Intensati, but only because Patricia continually talked over top of the affirmations and it was too distracting for me - if I'm listening to you talk about something else, it defeats the purpose of saying the affirmations!

I hear you about the neighbours, though! My workout area is more-or-less above my neighbours' front steps. For awhile we had these too-cool hipster neighbours (like 21 year olds who dye their hair grey and are covered in bizarre tattoos they look like they drew on themselves) who were constantly hanging out on the front steps with their friends. The summer they lived there I was constantly shutting all of the windows in my workout area so they wouldn't listen to the cheesy crap on my workout DVDs. Specifically, that summer I bought all of the NIA DVDs and the instruction on them is completely insane - Debbie Rosas makes bizarre comment after bizarre comment and is always moaning and groaning and yelling. My partner told me it sounded like a new age hippy porno from the other room, and I really didn't want the neighbours drawing the same conclusion. Luckily the last few years the people who have lived there seem to rarely go outside.

[Sue B]

Someone should make a list of workouts where you have to recite or sing stuff out loud. I love Cardioke, but I only sing along if the house is empty! Same with Karaoke Revolution Party, which has a sing-and-dance mode (you sing while dancing on a DDR mat) which is daggone HARD.

I still like those cheesy Dance A Gogo segments that have been on cable on demand for years. They make good warmups

[PhyllisG]

I don't have it so I haven't done it but I would really like to try Disco Dojo (?). Not sure if that is the correct title but I have watched it after someone mentioned it on another thread. The cover is just awful. What were they thinking?!

[Eibhinn]

Originally Posted by PhyllisG

I don't have it so I haven't done it but I would really like to try Disco Dojo (?). Not sure if that is the correct title but I have watched it after someone mentioned it on another thread. The cover is just awful. What were they thinking?!

I have this one! The production is sort of as slap-dash as the cover art, honestly. But it's fun. It's essentially a dance-y walking workout with generic disco music in the background and some vaguely tai chi inspired moves thrown in. I don't use it very often for whatever reason. There is a very short segment at the end where they're all in their Disco Stu get-ups and dancing (with production qualities similar to my high school video yearbook, incidentally), where I think Petra Kolber shows up out of nowhere. The rest of the workout the disco theme is really toned down and the whole thing is more professional. Like low-budget professional.

[acey]

I moved to a new Manhattan apartment that has nice big windows. I was enjoying one of my "secret" workouts - anything that has you rolling your hips and pumping your back and forth to work your abs - when I realized some dude in the opposite building could see right into my window. Yeesh.

I think it was one of Jennifer Galardi's hip-hop workouts.

[Kitten]

Originally Posted by Sue B

Someone should make a list of workouts where you have to recite or sing stuff out loud. I love Cardioke, but I only sing along if the house is empty! Same with Karaoke Revolution Party, which has a sing-and-dance mode (you sing while dancing on a DDR mat) which is daggone HARD.

I still like those cheesy Dance A Gogo segments that have been on cable on demand for years. They make good warmups

Kathy Smith's march to fitness has a chant in it that cracks me up.