Zumba Incredible Results: Super Cardio Dance Party

My VF Review from 29 November 2013:

Super Cardio Dance Party - Brief review

I tried out Super Cardio Dance Party this afternoon. Love it!

I have no dance background at all, so I can't give an exact breakdown of each segment. If the instructors mentioned the type of dance moves that they focus on, I do list it below. I mostly just have the name of the segment / song, though.

* Can choose English or Spanish

* Option to learn the moves first - skipped this

* Option to have verbal cues on / off

* Approximately 55 minutes long

* Each of the segments is about 5 minutes long, although some are shorter

* Alternately led by Kass, Steve, Ricardo. Back-up cast are Alicia, Taina.

* The number of cardio bursts in each segment varies.

* Does not use the step.

Segment Info:

* In Da Party warm-up. Step touch, V-steps with various arm movements, various side steps / arm movements, mambo + cha cha moves, side lunges

* Zumba Loco. Back steps, knees up & open, chest pumps. Cardio burst with knee up and both arms up. Back leg digs. Cardio burst on other side. Back lunges, etc. Another cardio burst.

* La Morena - merengue focus. V-steps. Some moves here super fast.

* Dancing Salsa - salsa focus with various moves. Fun "piano" moves.

* Give it up. Fun arm combinations

* Mi Vecina

* Taki Country - Indian "fusion" moves. This was one of my favorite segments.

* Elle Me Copia - "fusion".

* Vem Vem.

* Crazy Love. Merengue moves

* Bouje

* Bangalore Dreaming. Super fun like Taci Country segment.

* Quemando Bota

* A heart that's full of love - cool down.

Fitbit Info:

* Registered 50 'very active' minutes

* Burned 400 calories

Overall Impressions:

* This was a ton of fun - definitely my favorite Zumba dvd so far. I have the ones that came out approx. 2002 and then Exhilarate Body Shaping System.

* At some points the pace seemed very frenetic. At the start, I was thinking there was no way in heck I could keep up! But it became easier & definitely gave me an awesome cardio workout.

* At first I worried about the voice over style (cues added in after recorded) since I couldn't master that with Exhilarate. However, they break down the moves enough that it wasn't a problem.

* The moves were broken down in such a way that there weren't any that I didn't feel I could do.

* The cardio bursts are usually about 30 seconds - there was some jumping with them that I had to modify because of bad knees, but this wasn't a problem.

* The cast members are all clearly having a blast. Very motivating & encouraging.

* The Zumba Incredible Results symbol popped up between each segment. At first this annoyed me, but then as I was getting more winded, I really appreciated them so I could take a mini break

* Signal to indicate cardio bursts are coming is the lead instructor doing 'muscle arms'. I really liked this because when I got Cindy Whitmarsh's dvds a couple weeks ago, there was a really annoying clicking sound.

* This probably goes without saying, but the music is awesome

Edited to Add: YouTube has a lot of the music samples for anyone who is interested. Just type in "Zumba Music", hyphen, and then the song/segment name.