Hello my beautiful babes, today I’m going to talk about the Tracy Anderson Method. I figured that I should try out what the guru herself recommends to see if it really works. By the way, her DVDs are hot in Japan right now — apparently many models and celebrities are into them and so their fans follow suit.

And it’s summer and I’ve got to wear my bikini on a few beach holidays I’ve got lined up!

I totally enjoyed her Post Pregnancy Workout so I quickly bought her Dance Cardio DVD because she said that if you do both daily five-six times a week, you would see your arms shrink and abs tighten. She doesn’t promise that it would deliver quick results but she claims it would work.

It’s probably me, but I can’t do both workouts daily for six days a week. Each workout is about 45 minutes long and they are really hard. I’m usually sweating buckets by the end of each routine and I feel pretty sore later in the day and the day after. My level of fitness is moderate and I’m not the toughest of people, so for me, this has to be an every other day thing.

For the past two months, I run on one day, the next day I’ll do the Post Pregnancy Workout, then rest for a day or do light exercise like hooping or stretches, run the next day, then whip out the Dance Cardio, rest the next day and then repeat. That’s roughly my exercise regime and I spend about an hour on each session.

The big question is, is it working? To date, I’ve not lost any weight, but that’s not my primary reason for trying out The Tracy Anderson Method. I want toned arms, legs, abs, and butt which I think I would get if I keep at it. Right now, I feel stronger in the sense that I don’t feel the workouts are killing me — they are still extremely challenging but I’m slowly seeing my fitness level rise and the recovery period is much shorter.

The Dance Cardio DVD is totally fun, I must say. There’s good music and the routines are cool and funky, and you sweat loads from twirling and jumping around. It took me about four to five sessions to get the gist of the eight basic routines that make up the entire 45-minute workout. I think some people feel that the routines are too difficult to follow and I agree with them to a certain degree.

If you want a straight up bootcamp style aerobics workout, then you shouldn’t be doing this. It’s easy to imitate classic exercise routines (push ups, crunches, jumping jacks etc) but it’s not overly fun in the long term, in my opinion.

With the Dance Cardio, I feel like a girl and even though my coordination sucks, I feel like I’m dancing like crazy in the privacy of my own home. It literally feels like you’re dancing your heart out – wheeeeeee!

So if you are impatient, maybe Insanity might suit you better, but I would highly recommend The Tracy Anderson Method if you are looking for a more feminine style of working out.

Another bonus in the DVD is an interview with Gwyneth Paltrow who confessed that she was absolutely terrible at the Dance Cardio routine but after a year she felt that she could do it properly. I liked hearing that because there’s no magic formula that is a secret only celebrities know — you just have to keep at it and you’ll get there eventually.

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