The Hotpants Workout DVD

Advantages: relatively fun, good music, no equipment required
Disadvantages: need a DVD player

...things, so when I saw The Hotpants Workout DVD by Dan Karaty I thought 'great!' THE HOTPANTS WORKOUT Dan Karaty is a choreographer for pop stars such as Kylie, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera (no, that is most certainly not why I bought it). He leads the workout with four female backing dancers and does all the bits and bobs on the 'extras'. The front cover is decidedly tacky, but who cares? It looks promising on the back cover. The workout ...
...sequence. A couple of the steps take a little practise and require coordination but once you've mastered them it's really quite an enjoyable routine. 3) RUSH FOR - fat burning MUSIC - fast(ish) euphoric trance DURATION - 6 minutes NEXT DAY 'OW' FACTOR = upper arm shoulder ache & bum ache MY OPINION - this is probably my favourite routine - probably because the music is the best of the lot. I also like it because it incorporates breakdowns in ... Read review

Advantages: Great fun, works many parts of the body, good music
Disadvantages: Can't skip over the health warnings, some moves are a bit complicated

...I am utterly sick of the gym and hate jogging. Doing exercise tapes at home therefore suits me. I have a few videos that I do quite often, but I was getting a bit bored with them and spotted the Hotpants Workout on Amazon that claims you will ‘lose a stone off your bum, legs & tum’. This was enough to make me buy it on DVD for £16.19. It is also available on video for £11.19 at Amazon. You can recognise it in the shops by the gold Lycra clad pert ...
...He shows this at the beginning of the DVD if you just ‘play DVD’ rather than go to the ‘chapter selection’. Dan has four beautiful, skinny girls doing the dance moves with him. I’m not sure whether this is irritating or inspiring, as it can be off putting seeing such perfection as you look down at your wobbly bits, but on the other hand, you think that, just maybe, you could look like that too (yeah right!). •• The workout •• The workout is broken ... Read review

Advantages: fun, good music
Disadvantages: takes a few sessions to get the hang of it

Before I bought the Hotpants workout I had scoffed at the idea that any of the ever-so-fashionable dance DVDs were actually a really good form of exercise. This is the workout that made me eat my words - even though I would still never go near a pair of hotpants.... I decided to give up my gym membership because of the cost and bought this second-hand from a seller on Amazon for £4 along with a couple of others to try working out at home. I have ...
...the ones I bought, mainly because of the name and the bum picture on the cover, and I was intending to give it away to a friend who loves wearing Hotpants after a few uses. BUT, when the DVD arrived I really got into it! Serious exercise buffs might think it was frivolous but for something that leaves you out of breath and sweating feeling like you've had a decent workout, and which lets you see a progressive improvement in your own fitness, this ... Read review

Advantages: Fun, gets you moving/sweating
Disadvantages: Some routines tricky

The hotpants workout. Why did I buy this? Do I have a creeping desire to shimmy around a disco like Kylie, with bits of my perfectly toned rear on display for all to see? Erm, no. It was the no.1 selling exercise dvd when I bought it on Amazon last year, so I figured it must be good. This dvd has, as you can see, an annoyingly pert bottom on the cover. I figured it was just a sales tactic but turns out to be one of the dancers in the dvd. The dvd ...
...If you choose to play the dvd from start to finish, you will be greeted with a video style-y dance performance by Mr. Dan Karaty, choreographer to stars like Kylie and Britney. While there is no doubting Mr. K is an excellent and muscular dance artist, this bit seems extraneous as there's no way any mere mortal could do what he is doing ,as he is doing gymnastics off of the walls and such like. Next up Dan introduces himself in a friendly way, and ... Read review

Advantages: split into sections/ don't realise you are doing exercise
Disadvantages: music

...therefore managed to pick up the dance moves fairly quickly. The DVD is split up into different sections (I think it is 6) and their are routines to suit each type of music. The music is very annoying after a while but the dance moves are great, I do agree with others though they are explained very quickly. The last section concentrates mainly on the stomach and bum though I doubt you would end up with Kylie's bum by doing a few thrusts! If you can ... Read review

Advantages: Decent soundtrack, well choreographed routine, hard going (!)
Disadvantages: None for me

...A couple of years ago I really enjoyed podium and stage dancing at my favourite 'hard dance' clubs. Having giving that up I realised a few months ago just how unfit I was and bought The Hotpants Workout DVD. While that is great and I still do it from time to time I know all the routines now so when the Ministry Of Sound advertised Pump It Up on TV before Christmas I got quite excited (a bit sad, but I love dancing!) and ordered it immediately. PUMP IT UP Anyone with a TV will remember the raunchy video for Eric Prydz's Call On Me dance tune, which featured lots of attractive women (and one man) doing a sexually charged aerobic workout. If you liked that, you'll love this, because the DVD was inspired by that video and features most of the dancers who appeared in it (including Juan the man, for the ladies). With this in mind I... Read review

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