So You Think You Can Dance: Get Fit!

Your Favorite Dancers, Stephen “Twitch” Boss, Dmitry Chaplin, Courtney Galiano, Lauren Gottlieb, Katee Shean and Travis Wall, Show You How to Get Fit and Have Fun

Dance Your Way to a Sculpted Body with All-New So You Think You Can Dance Get Fit DVDs:

So You Think You Can Dance Get Fit: Tone and Groove

and So You Think You Can Dance Get Fit: Cardio Funk


Release date: July 21, 2009

Price: $16.99 U.S. each

Runtime: 109 minutes (Tone and Groove)

116 minutes (Cardio Funk)

U.S. Rating: Not Rated Canadian Rating: G

From the studio: You’ve seen exactly what they can do on the wildly popular show “So You Think You Can Dance.” Now six of the hottest dancers from past seasons will show viewers how to get in top shape with the release of two brand new fitness DVDs on July 21: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE GET FIT: Tone and Groove and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE GET FIT: Cardio Funk. With nearly 20 million watching each week “So You Think You Can Dance” is a pop culture sensation entering into its fifth season on air. For the first time ever, fans can tone and sculpt their bodies by moving along with the incredible dancers from the show as they demonstrate easy-to-follow routines in a variety of dance genres.

In Tone and Groove viewers can flex and condition their muscles with Stephen “Twitch” Boss as he takes them through a Hip Hop routine, tighten their abs with Dmitry Chaplin through the Cha Cha and then stretch it out with Katee Shean doing Jazz. Cardio Funk turns up the heat as Courtney Galiano puts viewers through their paces on the Disco floor, Travis Wall gets hearts pumping in a Contemporary routine and Lauren Gottlieb’s Hip Hop dance works up a sweat. With over 90 minutes of calorie-burning and body-sculpting moves, each DVD also includes a warm-up and cool down session, a bonus workout, behind-the-scenes interviews with the dancers and more. The DVDs arrive just in time for the highly-anticipated finale of Season Five.

My take: You wouldn't know it to look at me since I am not in shape (unless you consider "Round" a shape, which if you think about it, it IS a shape, but I digress) but I do love me some exercise DVDs. I own 14 exercise DVDs that I use in regular rotation (all Jillian Michaels or Bob Harper or Biggest Loser DVDs - why yes, I am obsessed with the Biggest Loser and yes, I do think of Jillian and Bob as MY personal trainers, thank you very much). I get up 5 days a week at 4:15 to work out. That is the ONLY time I have to get some exercise in.

I was excited to get these two DVDs because I wanted to try something different. Granted, I've never even seen the show (So You Think You Can Dance) - probably because The Biggest Loser is the ONLY show I watch on T.V. (as an aside, how excited was I to find the twitter handles for Allison Sweeney, Bob and Jillian?!?! Yes, I'm an idiot). But no matter. You don't have to know the show to appreciate these fitness DVDs.

That said, I thought these DVDs are really mis-marketed as fitness. They are really teaching you how to DANCE (Disco, Contemporary, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Cha-Cha) with the side benefit of improving your fitness. The set up is simple enough - the "dance" is shown in it's entirety 5 times, each time adding something (speed, music, etc.) to help you get up to speed. The DVDs also include an incredibly LONG warm up and cool down which makes them unsuitable for anyone looking for a work up under an hour (I've only got 45 minutes tops each day so there is no way I could use these on a regular basis unless I did them on the weekend). And dude, I did NOT inherit any dance genes - I have NO rhythm so I was not successful in learning these moves.

But, if YOU have rhythm, time to learn, and the desire to learn different dance genres, these DVDs would be for you.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE GET FIT: Tone and Groove and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE GET FIT: Cardio Funk are each presented in widescreen with Dolby Digital English Stereo sound. The following details each disc:

Tone and Groove:
o Introduction
o Warm-Up
o Workouts:
o Hip Hop - Twitch
o Jazz - Katee
o Cha Cha - Dmitry
o Tone and Groove Bonus Workout
o Cool Down
Bonus Features:
o Interview with executive producer Nigel Lythgoe
o Interview with Twitch
o Interview with Katee
o Interview with Dmitry

Cardio Funk:
o Introduction
o Warm-Up
o Workouts
o Hip Hop - Lauren
o Contemporary - Travis
o Disco - Courtney
o Cardio Funk Bonus Workout
o Cool Down
Bonus Features:
o Interview with executive producer Nigel Lythgoe
o Interview with Lauren
o Interview with Travis
o Interview with Courtney

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