Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease 1 Review

Quick View: This is more of an instructional video than a true workout one. It's decent if you have time to muddle through nearly an hour of repeating the same things over and over. I now strip with Jeff Costa. He's faster paced and more fun.

Full View: I bought – and sold - the entire set of Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease Videos - all five of them. I wasn't impressed.

The Workout
Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease is set in a dance studio with Carmen and a few other very in shape women doing the routines. It has the look and feel of a real dance lesson, as opposed to an aerobic workout. A warm up starts the over 53 minute workout and then it is on to learning the dance routine. There is cool feature on this DVD where you can pick from three different soundtracks when doing the actual routines. Carmen starts out slow, showing you very basic steps and making you repeat them over and over, adding another step to the ones learned, practicing them in combination and then adding yet more steps on, until you have a dance routine.

It's not easy. If you aren't a dancer or don't pick up dance steps easily, you could get easily frustrated with this workout. I am SO not a dancer but I do like dancy workouts. However, I found myself bored doing the same set of steps over and over until I finally could put a routine together. There are some flirty little moves that make the DVD fun, however. You lick your finger, slap your butt, and throw off your jacket (or hoodie or whatever you may have on) during the routines. You are reminded to look sultry. You run your fingers through your hair. You blow a kiss. It's cute but it isn't the aerobic workout I like. I like to dig in and get the thing done. I am the type of person who bores easily and is always crunched for time, so I found myself watching the clock rather than finding my inner stripper while doing this DVD.

My Viewpoint
You don't get 30 minutes of fat burning, heart pumping aerobic benefit with this DVD. You do get segments where your heart rate goes up and you are in fat burning territory but you are brought down quickly by learning more steps and practicing those over and over again until you are ready to put everything together in another routine. I imagine, in the 53 minutes you are actually doing this workout, that you will get your heart rate up enough to burn fat 20 or so minutes. I don't have almost an hour to get just 20 minutes of work in and this just didn't capture my interest as I thought it would. 2 stars. No recommendation. Sorry, Carmen.