Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56042 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-12-23
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 41 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Looking more like a trendy belly dancer in sequinned bra, shorts, and red trainers, ex-Coronation Street star Tracy Shaw is back with another dose of Salsacise. With choreographer and salsa maestro Michael Betts devising the session, this time the duo focus on hips and thighs. That’s not to say there are no Latin moves to take away: both the warm up and salsa split session are great fun. Note these aren’t real salsa moves, and you’d look pretty odd doing them in a salsa club, but anywhere else the steps would wow.

As the session goes into a hip and thigh-stretching Latin lunge, the dance moves give way to more conventional exercise, with the booty burner (for bums), side slimmer (for waist) and tum tightener (for abs) all being floor-based. The effects are certainly felt on the targeted bits, but avoid any of the floor routines in isolation as without adequately preparing the body, back problems are a risk. With each five to seven-minute routine clearly delineated, by far the biggest temptation is to skip the floor work entirely and stick to the fun bits.

Whether this ends up shifting the fat off those hips and thighs is really irrelevant: they’ll be moving in a sexy way. As a bonus there’s a behind the scenes feature revealing Shaw eating a banana and having her bum powdered. --Lorna V

Special Features
English
Region 2

Synopsis
The Coronation Street star Tracey Shaw stars in this entertaining twist on the fitness video idea...this time the plan is to salsa dance yourself slim!

Customer Reviews

Sizzling
I bought the first Salas fitness video thinking I probably would not be able to do it- I was wrong! The steps are relatively easy to do but at the same time are fun and ensure an all over workout. The only drawback is you require lots of room.
So when I saw the 2nd DVD especially for those areas all women if honest want to tone up, I gave it a go. It, like its sister DVD, is fun to do whilst combatting those problem areas.
Exercise is hard at the best of times so why not make it hard but fun?! This is the DVD to do it.

Surprisingly Good
I received this video as a gift and was very dubious about its quality. However, I found it to be a fun and entertaining way of getting fit. Although the routines were not easy to follow on the first watching, by the time I did the video for the second time I was getting the hang of it. It is reassuring to see that Tracy struggles at times, especially during the side exercises. I have had this video for a week now and have done it every day as I enjoy it so much. I can certainly feel that it is having an effect - my muscles are refusing to speak to me! I must admit I've been converted and this is one fitness video that won't find its way to the back of my cupboard!

Works you hard but also fun!
I have not got Tracy's first Salsa video but nonetheless found this perfectly easy to follow. Only once did I hear them mention a move from the previous video and even then they talked it through.

True it is not a video that teaches you how to dance Salsa style- but it does exactly as it says on the tin: exercise with a Salsa touch. It certainly livens up the squats and other moves when you are told to wiggle your hips and shimmy too!

The way it is divided into sections is extremely good. The video flies by and before you know it you have done forty minutes- honestly!

Tracy does say at the beginning that the emphasis of this video is on toning not losing weight but I found that my heart rate was high and I got very sweaty as well as being toned. I think it is good for toning AND losing weight.

Overall, fun exercise which works but don't expect it to teach you how to dance!