Billy Blanks Jr. Dance With Me Groove & Burn with Sharon Blanks

A high-energy fat-burning workout with three dance styles: Disco, African and Latin. Billy Junior, the son of Tae Bo founder Billy Blanks, obviously loves to dance. His playful enthusiasm makes it easy for you to just enjoy the movement and have some fun (“Missed a step? No problem. Just go back to our ‘home base' move and pick it up again”). The Disco series gets you groovin' to 70s dance favorites. The African section features a great drumbeat and moves like “African can can” and “safari shuffle.” The Latin section ranges from classic mambos to “Latin lover.” Each segment ends with a short, high-intensity aerobic or toning “burst.”

Put the Fun into fitness! Experience the hottest new dance fitness sensation with Billy Blanks Jr.! Billy Jr. and his wife Sharon take you through three complete dance routines, showing you how to shake it and burn mega fat – Disco, African and Latin style. The ‘Dance with Me’ system combines easy-to-follow dance routines with 2-minute cardio toning bursts to help you sculpt lean muscle and burn up to double the calories. This workout is specifically designed for all ages, shapes and sizes, so get ready to put the fun into fitness for the best time you’ll ever have losing weight!

WARM UP Heat the body with easy movements and light stretches.

DISCO Feel the fever and start sweatin’ with Billy’s signature 70s-style moves like the hustle.

AFRICAN Get loose with deep lunges and full body movements set to a combination of beats and drums.

LATIN Let the heart take over in this spicy routine that will burn and firm your legs, hips and thighs.

COOLDOWN Breathe deeply and reflect on your workout while flowing through cardio toning poses.

Billy Blanks Jr. continues in his father's fit footsteps (Tae Bo) with his own unique dance fitness routines. Dance with Me: Groove & Burn is an excellent, easy, fun fitness routine for anyone of any fitness level, and Blanks's enthusiasm is infectious. Dance with Me: Groove & Burn lets the user mix and match from three challenging, fun routines--classic disco, African, and Latin dance, with gentle warm-up, stretch, and cool-down segments too. A novice exerciser should probably begin with the warm-up and just one of the 13-minute dance routines. As you get more fit and want to up your challenge level, add more or do all three routines. Blanks also includes an excellent, brief tutorial about how to breathe during cardio workouts--a pointer so important it's hard to believe more fitness experts don't cover it. There is also the option to turn off the instruction so that once you've learned the moves, you can just dance along with the folks on the screen--almost as if you're in your own private dance studio. Blanks and his co-teacher and wife, Sharon, also include important arm-toning exercises for an all-over workout. Fans of Zumba or any dance-related fitness routine will love Dance with Me: Groove & Burn. --A.T. Hurley