Hi, Toni!
Michele was right on everything she said in her post. I was out of town. And I am having a MAJOR obsession with Christi Taylor. And I do need someone to help me get a grip or else I'll be doing Christi all day every day LOL.
First let me tell you - CONGRATULATIONS on getting one of the last copies of Humble Beginnings!!!!!! I totally saw your post on Christi's page and I honestly applauded when I saw that you were able to get one! A month or so ago when I was deciding on what to order, I saw that 'warning' "only blahblahblah copies left!" in red for Humble Beginnings, and I was all in a panic to get mine LOL. So I was so happy to read you got yours. You are going to LOVE it.
Now,.....you know when a friend tells you about a great movie he or she has seen, and they go into all this detail and you get all excited but when you finally go see it your expectations aren't met because your friend built it up too much.....well, I don't want to do that to you.........but.....OH MAN, you are going to LOVE it LOL.
I've actually been slapping myself for not buying every single workout of hers when I was in the States a number of weeks ago. I live in Japan and her company doesn't send internationally...but I'm getting some help with that issue, thank goodness : ) I'm definitely going to get them ALL.
Urgh, I love Christi's workouts.
Geez, I can't wait until you get it!!
Okay, so let me see here.... Humble Beginnings. I have done the hi-lo and step of 5004, and the step of 7002. I didn't preview any of them before I started. 5004 is fairly easy to catch on to, and the music is totally '80s synth-funk music, like something you might hear in Eddie Murphy's BEVERLY HILL COP. Hahaha, it's so geekish in the most wonderful of ways! It's a blast!
One tiny little thing...there's a background woman with big '80s blond, flouncing, bouncing hair that can get, well, erm, distracting (it's like, put that stuff in a bun or something!), but she's so into it that, well, I can forgive and forget the hair.
Oh wait, you didn't ask about hair LOL.
Anyway, 5004's choreography is fairly easy to catch onto the first time around and it's really fun and hot! There's a funky cool down that will make you feel like Michael Jackson. Or at least a poor man's Michael Jackson wannabe, heh
. It's super fun and something that after you get the hang of it, you'll want to dance it for your friends and make them giggle with envy.
7002 step - oh man, it's so fun, Toni. The step is placed so that it has its short end facing the camera. This one has a lot of funky '80s hip hop break dance-type steps. There's one move where she does what she calls "cabbage-patch arms" or at least I think that's what she says, though I have no idea why they'd be called that, but it's that funky arm move where you look like you're churning a huge tub of butter. It's a RIOT and I CANNOT get enough of it.
Oh, hey, I'm just taking a look at it right now and I'm now noticing that the blond woman is here and she has her hair in a ponytail! Haha, I've done this workout a bunch and didn't even notice she was in it. I guess I'm always watching Christi.
Geez, watching it while I write this makes me want to do it now (but it's midnight where I am). I NEED HELP! LMAO.
I've just had so much fun doing these (and Cardio Collectibles) that I haven't even broken out my other ones (and yet I'm already getting ready to buy the rest of her workouts). I can't wait to master the moves and then move on, and then start mixing things up.
Tell me what you think of the workouts when you get them! YAYYYY!!!!
Oh, by the way, there are 3 workouts, but probably because of the length of them and not being able to put them on one DVD, they are split up into the hi-lo workouts on one disc, and the step ones on another, so it actually feels more like there are 6 workouts, since they put the warm-ups, cool-downs and stretches on all the individual workouts.
If you ever want to talk Christi, you know where to go.
Later!
