Ministry Of Sound: Pump It Up - High Energy [DVD]

The only thing that works for me! Lost 2 stone in 2 months back in 2005 doing this 4 times a week. Super toned and shredded fat. Did only the burn it up and tone it up section not dance section. I keep going back to it, to this day. Feel firmer in only a week. Someone on reviews complained about it being too difficult not explaining the moves enough but once you’ve done it 40 times your thanking them for not repeatedly over explaining. Yes, it is quite difficult to pick up but after a few times you know it well because it’s really just two blocks repeated. The dance workout, I must say was difficult to pick up but I found that missing this bit still gave me excellent results! Gave me a body people were commenting on in awe! Shame I stopped and put it all back on but now I’ve re-purchased I know that if I stick to it, it will work for sure! Xx

This is not my first pump It Up purchase. I normally quite enjoy them. However, I felt like this was an injury waiting to happen. It's quite high paced hence the title. The dance section is why I stopped the DVD. The dance instructor dosent break down the moves for you, just goes straight into it, very quickly. I'm not a dancer, but I'm a fast learner. But even I thought..really! The moves are jolting, shes not given you time to even enjoy the moves. Were she is going so quick, she dosent even look like shes doing it properly. She shows you once very quickly, then you join in straight after and that's it, you dont see her coming back to those moves. Were I was moving so quickly I felt my arm go slightly. Plus, you have a 5 min warm up, barely stretching anything. Like I said an injury waiting to happen.

This workout is certainly good in places but in others can leave you frustrated!The warm up is pretty short but in a way at least there is not too much time wasted on it.The second section 'burn it up' is very good! it is a good aerobic section which doesn't feel as if it lasts 20 minutes. Although the instructor moves quite fast the repetition means eventually you will get the hang of the moves and whilst i handn't quite mastered it by the end with a few more tries i surely will.The third section is where i became frustrated! in my opinion the instructor moves through the moves far too quickly! i felt if i could actually do the workout properly i would be doing far more exercise but i felt myself moving about aimlessly trying to keep up with the people on the dvd. Perhaps by pressing pause more i could eventually leanr the moves a lot better but this will take a lot of time. There is a section on the dvd with tips and techniques and perhaps they could have added in slowed down versions of some of the moves. However they barely touched on any of the moves in the 'dance it up' section and so i was left to struggle! This section could be very good but if you are not a quick learner at dancing it will take a lot of time and effort to master. Nevertheless i did still manage to work up a sweat.The 'tone it up' section is also very good. You can really feel the squats working and there are some other very good exercises for the lower body and tummy. There are even pelvic floor exercises and the 'tips and techniques' section is very helpful for aiding the exercises in the toning section.The cool down is good in that it is relaxing at the start before moving on to the stretches needed to help the body.All in all the dvd is good, but in places can be frustrating to those who are not so coordinated or find dancing does not come naturally. I am sure however that with time the dvd can be mastered, just don't expect to find all the moves easy to follow straight away as not much help is given off the instructor.

I know all the range of fitness dvd made by Ministry of Sound and Clubland with the same fitness trainer Deanne Berry, and I believed that this dvd "Pump it up Hi-Energy" was full of aerobic exercises like those made by Deanne Berry, but as soon as I opened this dvd I found a dvd full of dance coreographies! Despite I have been a dancer, I found so many difficult to follow the fast movement of coreography... Because if I want to do aerobic exercises to keep myself fitting, I don't wanna press my nose against the screen to follow the steps of coreography. If you would like to buy an areobic dvd, buy the others of Ministry of Sound with the famous Aussie fitness trainer Deanne Berry.

I ordered three pump it up workouts as a special order. But so far I already returned both The Ultimate Dance and Pump It, Burn It, Lose It. The reason is simple. If you want to really workout- hi Energy is the king!!! I am not a sporty person, nor I am good at choreographic moves. It really took me a week to get my head around even mambo moves, but This workout makes me sweat, while keeping a big smile on my face. Why? Don't ask- it has nothing to do with anything "hilarious"- I suspect the endorfins are released like crazy, and this is good enough for me.The warm up is really energetic, and gets you going straight away.Burn it up is a challenge- a lot of jumping and jogging, real fat burner.Dance it Up is super hard- I have been skipping it so far, but only dew to my choreographic dislexia, I want to nail burn it up first and then go on to Dancing.Tone it up is BRILLIANT!!!! Brilliant!!!!! Hi energery pace and check out pelvic exercises- crusial for new moms and evety one of us (plus I read somewhere such exercises really improve your libido and open your sexual chachra!!!Cool it down is great too. No muscle pains at all - suprising after such a hard workout.One more thing- The presenter is super!!!! Beautiful, easy directions, very appealing and NOT AMERICAN- was a big plus for me as I find american instructors overdoing with cheering up everytime- so annoying. I didn't know she is English, but as I have bought a few of this series dvds it actually really made a difference!!!Do buy this workout!!!!!! Really