DANCE That WALK – 5000 Steps in One Easy Low Impact Walking Workout DVD (PAL)

I bought this DVD primarily to learn basic dance steps for amateur dramatic purposes. I am in early middle age and in fundamentally good health, but I lack coordination and have extremely sore knees because of decades of working at a desk (yes, I’ve tried a sit-stand desk; long story!)The dance steps are very simple, but as I have almost no body awareness, I had to stop the DVD, put it on slow-motion and sometimes use the ‘step’ (frame-by-frame movement) function in order to work out how to do them. Is she moving opposite arm to leg? Is she hopping or just moving her foot in place? Which leg is behind and which in front? etc. Most people will not need to do this, I am sure.Because my knees are so very painful (impossible to get anyone medical to commit to a diagnosis), unfortunately I found the marching on the spot did hurt by about halfway through. This was in spite of doing the routine on carpet, in trainers, with insoles. For the same reason, I skip the fast cha-cha-cha foot change, instead just standing still on the spot until it is time to switch foot. I must stress, most people will not have this difficulty.So instead of the marching, I just keep doing the most recent step, and wait for Gina to change to the next step, then do that.Gina is cheerful and charming without that false enthusiasm that some presenters have. The music is slightly cheesy (I think these tracks are written specially for the DVD) but it is fine.I’ve only had the DVD a couple of weeks but already, I find I have that bit more flexibility and energy. There are 14 tracks and the whole thing lasts 45 minutes, which is a reasonable amount of time to find most days. Some days, I just do a few tracks. Some of the steps are on more than one track anyway, although not all the steps are.All in all, I would say this is a very good DVD indeed, and doesn’t irritate upon repeated viewings. It’s easy to follow, with the caveats above for people with very bad knees or unusually poor coordination! I've tried a couple of other dance/fitness DVDs recently and they had to go to the charity shop because they were too difficult and fast, impossible to follow (weird camera angles or odd point of view changes) and with annoying presenters. I am sticking to Dance That Walk, though.

I did not think this dvd would be good. I am wrong, it’s fab! It’s low impact, you walk four steps per song and March on the spot between. For every upbeat routine you get a slower one to catch your breath. Did 5000 steps as it said. Being uncoordinated with dyspraxia means I got confused a few times but with time I will learn the steps properly. Had fun, didn’t feel like I was doing cardio but I was cause the fitbit picked it up as 50% so not to bad. I like that you can follow her and do a higher impact or the dancers (including her Mum) do the lower impact or both. Deffo gonna keep doing it. My cat enjoyed it too, she meowed every time we said ‘olay!’ 😂😂!

Can workout in privacy of my home.

After being an avid gym bunny for many years, then being diagnosed with chronic fatigue, I found it extremely hard to do any working out. Of course I gained a lot of weight from being inactive. I wanted something that was very low impact and that I could do at my pace. The first session I did, after 25 mins, I had to stop, out of breathe, and energy. But felt really good for achieving something positive for me. I know in time continuing using this exercise dvd, I will get fitter and loose a little of the weight gained. I am starting to look forward to doing the exercises more and more. A simple thing I had lost. The different tracks are fun, and the steps really easy to do, no complicated sequences to remember, and each track is the right length that you don’t get bored repeating actions over and over again. I love this dvd, and looking forward to, in time, ranking it up a bit.

It’s quite hard for a beginner only done the warm up so far but I’m 63 !!!!

I was expecting some sort of step routine designed perhaps for those of us with Fitbits etc trying to get to 10,000 steps a day - or more. I often walk on the spot if I have to. So my expectations were reasonably low. Instead what I got was a great dance DVD with relatively (almost very) easy dance steps - so you aren't just walking on the spot but doing dance steps like cha cha cha, jive and quick step. It's easy and broken into sections of about 4 minutes each so you can do a quick 20 minute section if that's all the time you have. And you're learning some dance steps! And you get quite a sweaty workout if you do the whole 45 minute DVD - it goes quite fast. It's just under 5000 steps I think - which is great. It's a real bonus to get an easy to follow dance DVD when I expected something a lot less interesting. It's far less fun working out at home than in a group but needs must sometime and this is great.

I have already written personally to Gina to say just how fit for purpose this DVD is. Unlike some I have tried, it is absolutely not a struggle to get through it because it is divided into small sections so the time just flies by. That said, at the end of 45 minutes I am completely bathed in sweat and feel I have had a really worthwhile and productive workout out and yet I am not hugely uncomfortable and feel really motivated to do it all again the next day.I have tried a lot... a LOT...of exercise DVDs, but this is absolutely the best. Maybe if I were twenty years younger I might find I needed something a tiny bit more challenging but as it is, this one really hits the spot (and if I am feeling hugely ambitious I dig out a Zumba Country DVD of which I can manage about 10 minutes!)Well done Gina, Mila and Sarah: next stop, Cardio Party!

Nice way to get moving though still getting feet and arm movements muddled up. More energeticthan expected so not yet able to do the whole lot in one go which is good. Should say I am a pensioner, so this may be more a reflection of my fitness than of the intensity of the dances. Good for me.