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Old 04-11-19, 12:34 PM  
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In a way, I sort of feel really lucky that people of our age got to experience workouts that had exceptional production value, great music, interesting sets and really fun, outstanding choreography. Younger people (Garrie excepted) probably don't realize what the older workouts offered. They only know drill-type cardio and the less than stellar production of a lot of the newer offerings.

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Old 04-11-19, 01:02 PM  
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What is a little sad for me is I never thought we would end up having this discussion, and even if my subconscious knew it, I perhaps did not realise it would be so soon.
Like we have come to the end of an era.
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Old 04-11-19, 01:20 PM  
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We'll always have video fitness (and Video Fitness, I hope )...however you get your video content!
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Old 04-11-19, 01:45 PM  
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I am actually enjoying a little hype.....I'm anxiously looking forward to Ellen's new "Ballet Sculpt" on her streaming. Essentrics also has been posting teasers on Instagram....showing photos of new workouts and behind the scenes stuff.

Like anything...it's change. I think it's ok though. Nothing we can do about it so may as well embrace it.

I don't think that all the streaming is necessarily poor quality. I love what Essentrics and Ellen Barrett are doing and think it's just as good as the dvds they have produced or even better.

You can't compare free YouTube content to professionally filmed and edited workouts...streaming or not.
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Old 04-11-19, 01:59 PM  
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I certainly miss talk about new DVDs, especially being a relatively new vidiot (started in 2012). What I miss especially are the heavily choreographed step and hi-lo workouts. It seems as if everything is drills, drills, and more drills to repetitive techno/EDM music. Yawn.

Nothing gets me going more than complex, dancy choreography with spins, rhythm changes/syncopations, and cross phrasing. All done to decent music. I keep waiting for Leslie Stewart (aka Lethal Leslie) to make the advanced step DVD she was born to do.
YES exactly! TOO MANY DRILLS!!! I blame Jillian Michaels but really I"m over it all and it's time to move on. I did an old Jenny Ford step workout on Youtube yesterday (thanks to Video Fitness, I had previously never heard of her...) and it made me really miss both the straightforward steady state athletic step style and the dancey choreographed style of step. Also miss Firm-stlye AWT, barre workouts, fun workouts like Turbo Fire, super fun and easy workouts like Yoga Booty Ballet, even Tracy Anderson workouts (and I was not a fan), all the kickboxing workouts, etc. Please someone do something different!!!
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Old 04-11-19, 03:25 PM  
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new releases let us do the workouts together

The thing I really enjoyed about new DVDs coming out is how so many people would do them together when they were shipped. So you could talk about the workout that you were doing and there would be a lively discussion with many people and opinions, and ideas on how to use it. All the comments were immediately relevant to the workout I was doing that day.

That’s why I enjoy challenges or check ins where people are doing the same program, or the same DVD, at the same time. It’s really fun that someone shared what you did that day, and really “gets” how you stumbled changing weights at that one particular time, or how one of the backgrounders made you giggle. I only know a few people IRL who can relate.

When I’m about to start a new set or DVD, I also read old threads about it to get myself psyched up to do it. It makes it fun to shop in, and get re-excited about, my collection.

What I won’t miss is wading through the “New DVDS coming out” thread, pages and pages of “did you get it yet, where’s mine, did you get it yet?” to get to the first reviews.
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Old 04-11-19, 05:13 PM  
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I am actually enjoying a little hype.....I'm anxiously looking forward to Ellen's new "Ballet Sculpt" on her streaming. Essentrics also has been posting teasers on Instagram....showing photos of new workouts and behind the scenes stuff.

Like anything...it's change. I think it's ok though. Nothing we can do about it so may as well embrace it.

I don't think that all the streaming is necessarily poor quality. I love what Essentrics and Ellen Barrett are doing and think it's just as good as the dvds they have produced or even better.

You can't compare free YouTube content to professionally filmed and edited workouts...streaming or not.
I feel the same Jackie. I also like the downloads I’ve bought recently....Jessica Smith, Barlates, BellyFit to name a few.
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Old 04-11-19, 09:04 PM  
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The thing I really enjoyed about new DVDs coming out is how so many people would do them together when they were shipped. So you could talk about the workout that you were doing and there would be a lively discussion with many people and opinions, and ideas on how to use it. All the comments were immediately relevant to the workout I was doing that day.

That’s why I enjoy challenges or check ins where people are doing the same program, or the same DVD, at the same time. It’s really fun that someone shared what you did that day, and really “gets” how you stumbled changing weights at that one particular time, or how one of the backgrounders made you giggle. I only know a few people IRL who can relate.

When I’m about to start a new set or DVD, I also read old threads about it to get myself psyched up to do it. It makes it fun to shop in, and get re-excited about, my collection.

What I won’t miss is wading through the “New DVDS coming out” thread, pages and pages of “did you get it yet, where’s mine, did you get it yet?” to get to the first reviews.
I don't think this is reflective of dvds vs streaming....I think it is reflective of VF becoming a less active forum .
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Old 04-11-19, 11:48 PM  
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Well, that’s the thing, Sue. I was hoping Kathy and Tamilee would do something like Debbie Siebers did. Kathy did Moving through Menopause - now we need Moving toward Medicare!!! 😁😁😁
Not quite, but almost - Kathy posted some short videos on the AARP site.
https://www.aarp.org/health/healthy-...et-moving.html
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Old 04-12-19, 07:04 AM  
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I don't think this is reflective of dvds vs streaming....I think it is reflective of VF becoming a less active forum .
Or perhaps of timing, when the DVDs come out people on the forum (even if less) are excited about the same DVDs at the same time. Like when Cathe LITE just came out, a bunch of people were doing those at the same time. It was fun to read new posts on what I was excited about at that time too.
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