Heat in Your Feet – Aerobics Oz Style (2002)

Cover blurb:

Heat in Your Feet (Do it the Latin way!) is another pulsating fitness tape from the team at Aerobics Oz Styler, the world’s most-watched weekday workout show. You’ll literally feel the heat as you go through specially-created routine… you’ll be seduced by the exciting, throbbing rhythm of Latin American music. Low impact workouts were never easier or more enjoyable… all to the sound of foot-moving delights led by Jose Garcia. [elipses in original]

What I liked: I’m so glad I borrowed this from the library instead of paying for it. With the exception of the cool down at the end, where the stretches were held for at least thirty seconds, there was not a single thing about *Heat in Your Feet that I liked.
What could have been improved: I’m going to skip over the hosts and performers, including one disturbingly plastic-looking woman, and go straight to the routine. Heat in Your Feet is not for anyone who lacks coordination or rhythm, and though there’s a cursory attempt at demonstrating the various steps I never felt as though I had a handle of the routines. And even though I moved at the demonstrated pace, albeit often doing embarrassing and uncoordinated versions of the steps, and was even a little short of breath, I never felt as though I was working. That’s not because I was having so much fun I didn’t realise I was even exercising (as though I was in a Zumba! ad) but because I suspect my pulse never went about 80. I didn’t even work up a sweat, just a whole lot of frustration at my lack of coordination and at the time ticking by.
Does it do what the blurb promises? No, not at all, at least for me.
Overall: if you already have a grasp of Latin dance, or even have a hint of coordination and musicality, this may be a fun way to spend an hour. I don’t think you’ll get a great deal out of it, let alone “literally feel the heat… [and] be seduced by the exciting, throbbing rhythm of Latin American music.” Although I also disagree with the jacket blurb that this is an enjoyable routine, I can’t argue that “low impact aerobics were never easier” – Alex