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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Cerebellum Corporation
Salesrank: 5423
Released: January 11, 2005 |
| Our Price: $4.19 |
| Used Price: $4.98 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Award-winning choreographer, MaDonna Grimes, is renowned for her innovative dance moves. She founded the MaDonna Grimes Fitness and Dance Theatre Company, has released a CD, and is the author of Work It Out. She has a master’s degree in dance performance and choreography, and has appeared in many fitness and fashion magazines.
Who knew getting a full-body, cardio workout could be so much fun! Urban Street Heat is more like a dance party than an aerobics class. MaDonna Grimes makes working out fun in this fresh and funky Dance Fitness for Beginners program.
You’ll have a great time performing this program, which combines attitude, street style, and easy-to-follow dance steps. The Hip Hop freestyle routines, designed for women and men, are bursting with style and energy. You’ll learn some fresh new moves that will really spice up your workout. MaDonna breaks down all the steps, and combines them into one dynamic routine that you can take to the clubs.
Program Features:
- Sexy, fun moves work the entire body
- Lose weight, burn fat
- Aerobics workout boosts energy
- Hip Hop freestyle routines for women and men
Dance Fitness for Beginners with MaDonna Grimes: Urban Street Heat Reviews:
Super fun way to burn calories! 
2009-11-09 - I rented this video just to try it out from Netflix. I will definitely be buying it!
I usually do step workout videos but was looking for something different and fun. I was very pleased with this video. Madonna made exercising entertaining.
I am certainly not a hip-hop dancer, but I have reasonable rhythm. With this video, I found it challenging but not frustrating. Her cues and demos of each move are right on point. She is a wonderful teacher. The music is good, too.
I watched the video before I did it. At first, I thought it looked lame but when I actually did it I found myself having fun and really enjoying the moves.
Some folks complained that it does not burn enough calories. All I can say is that it certainly got and kept my heart rate up. Also, if it is not intense enough for you, you can always exaggerate your arms and move them more to pick up your heartbeat.
One final plus- it is the perfect length in my opinion. Long enough to make a difference but not so long that it discourages one from putting the DVD in due to lack of time.
I plan to check out more of her videos!
Urban Street heat
2009-10-19 - This is a second video of Madonna for me. This one really gets you moving and the pace is high. Found it to be a lot of fun especially if doing with friends. It will give you a work out at any level. I'm definitely a beginner and I was able to keep up.
Not for Beginners 
2009-10-13 -
The title is very misleading.
If you have no dance experience, this DVD is very hard to follow.
It assumes that you know how to dance, and it moves way too fast for the true beginner.
Too advanced for me 
2009-08-16 - I recently purchased multiple beginner fitness dvds to diversify my home workout options. I don't normally feel like going to the gym, so I thought these would be a solid home remedy. Of the three I purchased, this is the only one that I didn't opt to keep on my shelf. It was a little too much for me as a beginner. I tried it twice, and I just couldn't get the hang of it. I reviewed the later parts of the tape, and I decided that my other dvds would cover my needs well enough.
A fun workout you'll want to do again and again.
2009-07-14 - Let's face it: the ultimate test of a workout video is whether you want to keep doing it.
MaDonna Grimes' Urban Street Heat has the tight structure of a typical cardio dance workout: she adds on a move at a time, adds arms and styling after the footwork, and repeats the whole thing from the top. To help you remember the choreography even further, Grimes gives each move a name that she can call out.
While I'm not sure that I'd pull out many of these moves in a club, they're definitely "dancier" than those of other cardio dance workouts. Enough of them are doable the first time around, and enough of them are hard enough, either because of the arm work or because of their speed, that you can still grow into the program. Still, the most important thing is that the workout is *fun*. Grimes is sassy, teasing the male dancers in her group\. The dancing requires your entire body, which makes it hard to sleepwalk through it. You'll break a sweat, but the entire workout is short enough to fit in your schedule and leave you energized rather than tired. And, after doing the video twice, I find that I'm still looking forward to the next time.
