Customer Rating:  
Summary: Both Ridiculous and Somewhat Great!!
Comment: I jumped to buy this tape because I was blown away by Cher's New Attitude which has an over the top toning segment. But with this video, the aerobics is ridiculously long, 45 minutes. 20 minutes is plenty for any aerobic routine; even Jane Fonda's Workout Challenge has a 20 minute aerobic segment. I found it to be boring because it's too long, but I could over look that if this video contained an ab workout, which it doesn't. The workout is 90 minutes long like her first video. Who ever heard of a 90 minute workout that doesn't include the abs? Gee, after 90 minutes, you still have to put in more time to work your abs! Ridiculous! However, the toning part with the rubber bands is over the top! I love it! This is why I give the tape 3 stars. Cher still managed to come through. It would have gotten 5 if the aerobics were shorter and it had a ab workout. What I'll do is skip the aerobics altogether and just do the toning part. The rubber band thing is awesome! I recommend that you try it, you'll love it! But pair it up with another workout for your abs and aerobics. The toning part is only 45 minutes.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It's a decent workout. It's Cher. It's fun.
Comment: It's important to remember while doing this workout that it was made in the early nineties, by a woman who, although admirable, is almost entirely plastic and is wearing a fishnet bodysuit and thong.
If you're willing to accept all of this and laugh along with or at the video, WHILE getting a good workout, then it's definitely the movie for you. The most important thing to have when approaching CherFitness is a sense of humor. Maybe it wasn't meant to be hilarious, but it is. So laugh.
As for the workout itself, I consistently find myself sweating and breathing harder, maintaining my heart rate within the "target range" (there is a heart rate check performed in the middle of the workout), AND having a good time. I really enjoy the "Hot Dance", as I like dancing in general, and the instructor (Dorian Sanchez) guides you through it slowly enough so that you understand it, but quickly enough so that you don't get bored. The dance moves are designed to work basically all the major muscle groups in your body, and they do!
I'll admit that I've never done the resistance band workout which comes after the Hot Dance, because I don't own the bands and it doesn't look as interesting. The Hot Dance is definitely worth the price of the entire movie, however (which, incidentally, is CHEAP).
One caution: despite the fact that this movie is INSANELY fun, don't do it TOO many times in one week, or you'll get bored with it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It should be called The Stupid Dance!
Comment: I bought this video at a used clothing store for $1.99, and I know now that I paid way too much for it. This video is a JOKE! Cher looks like a total tramp, and I felt sick to my stomache whenever the camera showed her backside. And, when they were doing the cool down, she kept pushing her crouch in and out, so that you could see her waxed bikini like (yuck!). She has absoultely no modesty in her. How can anyone give her any type of respect. Also, she was not wearing a workout utfit, she was wearing a trampy outfit. This so called "hot dance" is nothing more then bunch of girls gallopping like a horse and I'm not kidding you. They take breaks seems like every 20 seconds, and the instructor says "pony", then they all hop around like a pony throught the entire video! There's a huge portion of the video where the girls not only gallop around like a horse, they also say "I'm pony, your pony, we all love out pony!". What the hell is this? I can't even describe the rest of the exercises. Well, maybe I can describe it this way. They go from side to side, then they move their arm forward and backword while they move one side of their leg up and down sidewards. It looks so stupid! They kept doing this movie over and over. Also, throw in the pony moves and that's what they called the hot dance. Skip this so called work out video.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This is a joke!
Comment: I saw this video at a garage sale for 10 cents, so I thought I try it out. I could not help but laugh throughout the whole video. Now, I am the person who has ton of workout videos, and I have been working out in the gym for over several years. I have also trained with a great personal trainer, so I'm not a newcomer to working out. When I saw this video with Cher, I was flabergasted that she would put out this kind of nonsese! First, she wore ton of makeup and her hair is huge like a prostute's hair. She also wore some stylish booths, which I thought she should have worn some comfortable athletic shoes. She also wore very revealing skimpy outfit, and wasn't a thong string go up her butt? She should have put out this kind of video under Play Boy's title. Cher also made some snotty coments, and that tells me that she think she is miss high and mighty! I want to listen to someone who smiles and encourages, and not someone who acts like she is some kind of queen and make sarcastic comments. If you are a dire hard fan of Cher, then you might like this video. But, if you want a serious workout video, then look for videos that have won some sort of awards.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Fun AND a Great Workout
Comment: This is my all-time favorite. I got it when it came out and it will always be old faithful. I like to mix my exercise sessions up but I still do this one weekly. I even recorded the audio and brought it with me when I traveled for work. I always feel totally worked out doing the Hot Dance. It is a fun and very cool routine.
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