Zumba Exhilarate

First, I must mention that I have purchased the box on the Zumba website, not here. Therefore, I do not have these bracelets. However, it was much cheaper there and on these bracelets I can do without.
I am now for almost one and a half years Zumba dancers and will simply not tired. But this box set offers so much variety - there's something for every mood and every time this window what.
Now to my assessment. Behind each DVD are the stars, I give it.

1. Step by step: I have not seen since I already own the other Zumba box and the steps largely dominant. (-)

2. Activate: I made only once. 'm Very trained and in this DVD, I was not at all required. Seems for beginners, however, to be very well suited. Especially in terms of what to expect on the other DVDs. I remember roughly that I found it inconvenient cut in some places because it often suddenly went dark and you only saw close-ups of the dance leader, so was clearly not always the step that is taken now. (***)

3. Ripped: is divided into weight training (toning) and dance training with chair (SENTAO). Takes about 30 minutes each. The weight training I find quite boring and very unappealing Vorturnerin Jani. Okay, this is about weight training and muscle building, but since you could have put a little more effort with the choreography. I had every time the feeling that if I have the motion intus grade, is already the next turn. Very few repetitions of each exercise so. I fear, not even an untrained would feel as an effect. (**)
SENTAO is a little better. Before long, though I walked the seemingly firmly frozen grin of Lead Dancer Marcy (or so) on my nerves, but the training is very effective for buttocks and thighs. Because you really realize what you've done. The choreography is quite demanding and you need quite a lot of space, because you not only dances with the stool, but also around it. In any case, this training is very refreshing, because new. (****)

4. Exhilarate: My personal challenge. To my mind, a very, very demanding choreography that are not good goes in, at least in his head at me. The first 10 times or so, I found it very confusing, because the seemingly arbitrary died together oppelten movements. Now it is slowly. The hardest DVD at all, in my opinion, with regard to the endurance. Many jumps. Although it thus is very effective, it does not bring me so much with the fun factor. Also, the cooldown is rather poor, because in my opinion is not really stretched enough. If pre-punched Beto with a certain Melissa, who looks like a walking Barbie doll for me and moreover permanent flings her hair through the area, which I think is quite corrosive. Around 60 minutes. (***)

5. Rush: A nimble round with two really friendly, cute girls as Vorturnerinnen (Loretta and Kass). The music is kept typical American. Here is jumped much what's going on real consistency. The individual movements are little by little expanded so that it is small, well mitzumachende choreography at the end. Power personally scary fun. Unfortunately, no stretching, which would be quite appropriate here. Duration: 23 minutes. (*****)

6. Mix: My absolute favorite of the box. No DVD I have so often and with so much enthusiasm made like this. Replace the lead dancer. First, Tanya and Beto initiate warming up. Then they take turns and each have a person other than Vortanzpartner at her side. It's music around the world: Spain, China, Africa, Orient, Brazil, Mexico, India, etc. Accordingly, the music is kept very varied. Well, quite accurately, the individual steps are not allocated to the respective countries. I think there has already been mixed relatively wild. Despite, or perhaps because it is great fun. The choreographies are also very demanding and not learn as quickly.
Here I have only two small disturbing factors: In some parts I had the feeling that one before the end of the song found 30 seconds that dance is indeed over, but the song is still running so fast hectic any movements were still behind Range cobbles, to fill the time. This has a slightly bitter aftertaste. And the stretching could be more creative. An eternity one foot in front and put back is not very funny, and certainly not conducive to the stretching. Approximately 60 minutes (*****)

7. Fitness Concert partly overlapping substantially with the Exhilarate DVD of the movements and the music here. But one has really come up with something for the audience, so that it is visually more like a concert or at least a big show instead of a slightly larger designed fitness training. I've been through this DVD 2 or 3 times, but they find more to look at than suitable to dance because you're too distracted by the appearance here. Around 60 minutes. (****)

8. The book: is held in 3 languages ​​and explains a little history of Zumba. There are various suggestions from fitness plans and a diet plan. The fitness plans are not very varied. In principle, two different DVDs are made alternately. That would be quickly bored.
The diet plan has evolved in the form to say that you have taken from gram-distance information and is switched to units such as cups or spoons. This certainly makes it easier and you have so many leftovers. Technically calories to get well so to 1600 a day, which is not too much and not too little. However, I find the plan very rigid in that is precisely defined exactly what to eat when. One can probably swap lunch and dinner, but that was already of flexibility. Oh, and you can still choose the snacks themselves, as well as a list is given, from which you should select. And some quantities is really unrealistic, such. As a handful (or was a cup?) Popcorn. Overall, I can not do much with the book. (**)

9. General: The DVDs are in a large hinged slipcase, which is unfortunately quite wide and this does not fit well in the DVD cabinet. On the other hand it looks quite decorative, to put him on the other DVDs.
One can clearly see that more money was available for the production of DVDs. Everything is a lot more professional and there are more effects, and much more Background Dancers. The large, announced in advertising lightshow I find sometimes a bit annoying because they distract from the movements of the dance leader and impressed me not so much. But that's a matter of taste.
The different costumes are mostly regarded very pretty. Some I found somewhat inappropriate for a fitness DVD. Who trains already in jeans or leather leggings with lace Arm? Not to mention this tattered look. Some have only rags hanging on the body. Well. Who's like ...
I would not have thought it possible, but there are so many dance steps - alone within South America - that again completely new choreographies were developed. That was very surprising and I like to be very good. They have, however, real in itself. Because the choreography of the first box look like a children's walk, and I was doing quasi only as "Zumba to rest". ;-) I would almost say that beginners should rather start with the first box, because as you have enough time to learn the steps correctly. When Exhilarate box the pace was quite dressed, so I'm really behind all ready.
Even the music was probably more money available, because that has become much more professional. Some pieces would be suitable even for the charts, most notably "Caipirinha". Not every song is a blast, but overall I like the music better than me. (****)

So, we expect from the average result for a total of three and a half star. Since I love Zumba and never felt so long could hold a Traininsprogramm at the bar and I became incredibly tight and persevering and just feel great, we complete the whole on 4 stars.