Mia Michaels is nothing but a big mean bully. She bullys and says statements that in any other setting would be taken off the air. Her raggedy clothing she was wearing (runs/raggedy sweater) during tryouts at las vegas shows she can’t even follow the correct dress code of a judge and representing the show.

But most of all her bully attitude(her mouth is SO foul) has final helped our household that we won’t be watching the show anymore as long as she is a judge on the show…..I represent a large family and we all feel this way

I’ve only used the hiphop dance portion and it was a great workout. I’m excited to try the other types of dance.

So You Think You Can Dance Get Fit: Cardio Funk

i’m >40 and i’m trying to improve my dance mojo! i own several dance videos (paula abdul, 10 minute solution, dance off the inches, The Firm, Lisa Wheeler, The Method, crunch…) and have been exercising to videos for >10 years. dance is an area i’ve been trying to improve on, and i needed something more fun than Leslie Sansone’s walking videos, hence my latest foray into dance workouts. i still have the Leslie’s but just needed to try something with more intensity and challenge.

i’ve used this video twice and i chose to do the instructional segments both times. even though they take time, you can still get a good workout with those segments since the movements are very deliberate as you learn the moves. i used my heart rate monitor and noticed that i can stay in my cardio zone, and even go higher than that in some instances (lauren’s segment, for example).

for example, Lauren’s hip hop segment has some high impact (side to side “pony” jumping). whether you do it slow or fast, your heart rate will go up.

in Travis’ contemporary segment, it kind of reminded me of standing yoga/pilates where you’re using your entire body to do the moves. it flowed well.

Courtney’s segment is disco, but not your 70′s disco. the moves are travolta, but the music is contemporary, if you can imagine that.

the disc is chaptered so you can choose just the workouts, and each workout at dance speed, is roughly 6 minutes apiece. so with the warm-up (11 min) and cool down (5 min?), you’ve got a roughly 35 min workout.

the great thing about this too is that they mirror cue, even in side profile position. that means when they refer to “the right foot”, it’s “your own right foot”, like you’re looking in a mirror.

i have never watched the show, so i can’t compare whether it’s similar. as a workout video, it’s pretty solid. the warm up is very generous and thorough. i do the entire workout barefooted, and some of dancers do it in bare feet.