The Cardio Samba Workout
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Movie Reviews of The Cardio Samba Workout
Movie Review: so far its great!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have not gotten all the way thru this dvd yet, but what I have seen so far is great! She teaches you the steps well, and you feel confident, and sexy doing her moves! All while exercising-I love it, so far its great!Movie Review: Cardio Samba Workout
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW, what a workout! I can feel it in my bones and everywhere else. Worth it's money and I loved learning new dance routines while working out.Movie Review: Talented, fun teacher, slow/very fast workout
Summary: 4 Stars
I love Quenia, she is a fluid dancer that you can tell can enjoy the dance in the moment & has a great, friendly, fun personality that comes across that doesn't let you get bored. Like her previous "The Samba Reggae Workout" this is done on stage w/now 3 backup women & no live band, but a great music piped in. Quenia again teaches as she dances, no voice over.
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* Welcome: 2 min
* Basic Samba: 11 min - Quenia alone slowly teaches fwd, back & traveling to the side. Fwd & back are done differently. She goes very slow here, no music for the first 5 min, but there is for the rest. Luckily Quenia makes up for the lack of music. She occasionally goes into 1/2 speed, but mostly a very slow 1/8-1/4 tempo even for most dance workout dvds. Only at the end does she do a quick at tempo speed practice.
* Step Tutorial: 29 min - broken up into 4 sections, she alone teaches you all the other moves you will learn for the workout, which there are many, but easy to learn, nowhere near as fast as samba, the only hard part being directional changes. She goes so slow, it's hard to picture what it's suppose to look like at tempo. Hip circles, box steps, lunges, etc. She again goes mostly 1/4 tempo, stopping to teach. Again, she is a very good, thorough teacher. She goes over basic samba again for those who need a refresher in the last 2 min.
* Warm-up: 27 min - wow, a very long, thorough stretching that gets even the ankles warmed-up & stretched. Included are yoga sitting fwd bends, standing fwd bends, chair, reclined spinal twists, as well as some crunches, pilates, rib & hip circles, etc. Done w/her dancers.
* Workout 26 min - broken up into 5 sections, she & 3 backup dancers do the previous 4 sections, first in 1/4 tempo, then full VERY fast tempo. She then does all 4 sections all in VERY fast tempo in the last 6 min.
* Cool Down 3 min - basic stretches you'd expect w/the dancers.
The only thing I didn't like about this was that even though 1/8-1/4 speed is perfect for the step tutorial, she should have gone 1/2 speed when doing the workout or at least a summery end of the tutorial. It's too jarring since Latin dancing is VERY fast, you feel you're either going too slow, or it's too fast to keep up. There was very little body placement teaching in the workout section to remind you ahead of time where you're going unless you've memorized really well the previous sections which goes too slow once you get the idea. If she had trouble teaching in 1/2 speed, an added voice over would have been fine to keep the momentum up.
Most of my dance workouts go 1/2 speed w/teaching as you go & then tempo w/an added step tutorial if need it which I find to be a perfect formula.
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Movie Review: Not as good as her other DVDs, but still a workout
Summary: 4 Stars
I now own four of Quenia's DVDs, and if I were to put them in order, this one would be my second to last. (Last is "Dance Today! Samba" as that's actually instruction and not meant as a workout.) As other reviewers have said, this one moves really fast and doesn't seem to flow as well as the others.
The music was probably the worst of all four DVDs, not only was it just a recording, it sounded more Hawaiian than anything else. (Mostly it just didn't sound good, canned and tinny.)
She had three backup dancers this time, which was really nice (Dance Today! had none, her other two DVDs each had two). Two were the same and one person was new.
If I could give half-stars, I'd rate this 3.5 instead of 4. I suppose if I didn't like her so much I could really knock it down to an even 3, but she has such energy and enthusiasm, I really enjoy working out with her.
Movie Review: Not as good as I expected
Summary: 3 Stars
I have all three of Quenia's workout DVDs. I absolutely LOVE her Samba Reggae Workout, which was her second DVD. It feels like more of a workout than her first DVD, which I only did once because I found it hard to follow. Since there was so much improvement from her first DVD to her second one, I couldn't wait for this one. Sadly, I was a bit disappointed.
As always, Quenia is wonderfully engaging and energetic in this DVD. She is very thorough with her instruction and cuing. The moves are great and authentic. You will definitely work up a sweat if you do it all the way through. There are also lengthy warm up and cool down segments.
However, something about the format of this DVD really takes away from my enjoyment of it. The routine does not flow as smoothly as her Samba Reggae workout. There are too many interruptions. The segments seem disconnected from each other instead of flowing as one whole piece.
I also miss Grupo Ribiero, Quenia's live musicians. I don't know why the decision was made to play a recording instead of having the live drummers, but that took away from the workout. I loved the intensity and authenticity that the live drummers brought to her previous workouts. Hopefully they will return in her next DVD, which I will buy.