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3.9 out of 5 stars

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Pussycat Dolls Workout
(2009) (DVD)

ASIN:
     B002LSI1NM

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$9.25

Join Pussycat Dolls creator and world-famous choreographer Robin Antin for the sexiest, most glamorous, and most fun dance workout you’ve ever done! Along with the girls from the
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, Robin will show you simple but striking signature dance moves to hit Pussycat Dolls songs that will help you move with confidence and dance your way to a lean and beautiful body. So if you’re ready to achieve the slim, sleek, toned physique of a dancer and feel fierce while you’re doing it, this is the puuurrrfect workout!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

I Found it So-So

By
Cydni Perkins
, November 23, 2010

I love to do dance workouts, and this one looked fun, so I decided to try it. Well…I think it would have been better if they had described it as a dance tutorial rather than a “workout.” The dance steps themselves were challenging to learn, but it wasn’t a very good workout. Certain moves, like a kickbox-style roundhouse kick, were repeated only on the left side. I switched between my left and right legs to get a more even workout, but it messed me up on the steps of the dance. The dance moves in this DVD are very overtly slutty, but I kept worrying that my husband would come in while I was struggling to copy the moves, because what could be worse than
seeing one’s wife in her grubby workout clothes, stumbling through a skanky dance routine and apparently trying to hump his necktie? I don’t know. My husband is easygoing, but I still think I would be embarrassed. All in all, it was a kinky dance routine, but not really an efficient workout.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

SLUTFABULOUS!!!

By
K dogg
, October 26, 2010

One word…raunchy. I would never be able to do this DVD if anybody was home. Starting this DVD, I was falling over my feet (coordination is not my strong suit), but as I continually watch this I am really turning into a high-class stripper. Every time you watch it you find a way to improve your dance and add a little pizzazz. The one girl that said that this was not a workout is dead wrong. I am fit and in my early twenties, and every time I do the DVD I sweat through a shirt. It really gets ur heart rate going. My thing was that the first time you see the routine it is freaking hard to keep up with…I recall being in such a rush I tripped over my feet, but after u watch it the second time you really start to get the hang of it. You need a large space to dance in. And you have to actually try; you get nowhere in life doing the bare minimum. This is a five-star workout DVD…I only wish she made more!

1,372 of 1,450 people found the following review helpful

Don’t cha wish you saved your $8?

By
M. Cruz “Impulse Buyer Extraordinaire”
, January 10, 2010

It’s Monday, January 4th. First day back at work. All day long I am mentally psyching myself up to work out because, let’s face it, if I loved working out I wouldn’t resort to buying a
Pussycat Dolls (PCD) Workout
DVD at 1:38 in the morning on
Amazon.com
. I would be asleep and wake up to take a nice walk. But, no. I hate exercise but love dancing.

It’s 5 p.m. I drive home, change into workout clothes, take the dog outside, and I put the DVD in. The cheesy music starts, and they show close-ups of the PCD girls, and they’re all sex-ified. Lovely. This DVD is made for 14-year-old boys.

I am kind of standing there waiting for the darn intro to finish. Robin Antin is apparently the “creator” (or pimp—your call) of the PCD group, and she’s going on and on about how great this video is. If you do it daily, you’ll look like them in no time! During this intro all I can think about is 1 thing: This was probably a waste of $8. But, I am still optimistic, and I even have a water bottle nearby because clearly to look like them, you gotta work out HARD. Sweat, get sore, be outta breath.

The first part of the workout (a term they use loosely—you’ll see why) is set to their popular song “Don’t Cha.” It starts off, and Robin is the one giving the instructions, and it’s easy. If you can walk forward 3 steps and place your hand on your hips on step 4, you’ve got 1/4 of the darn routine down. If you can do so while trying to act sexy, you’ve got another 1/4 of it down. I’m doing it, and I keep thinking to myself that I am not remotely sweaty. Not even out of breath. I look at my dog and he’s doing the routine because it’s that easy. At this point I also realize that none of the girls look familiar, and this is because it’s the PCD from the burlesque show and not PCD the um “singing” group (wink, wink). But this doesn’t bother me any, because they all look the same to me. Nicole, the lead “singer,” does come out during the 3rd routine to the song “Buttons” if that matters to you or your husband.

It takes about 15 minutes for Robin to teach you the routine, and during these 15 minutes she also mentions a bajillion times that once you do this DVD you’ll really start to see results and get better at the dances. Really? Seriously? If you did this DVD every day you’d be BORED TO TEARS like another reviewer said.

Finally, it’s time for you to perform the routine from start to finish. How long is the routine? Oh, roughly 30 seconds long. I’ll even summarize it for you: Bow chicka bow wow. Walk 3 steps, place hands on hips on 4. Shake your hips while doing so. Leave lips slightly open to look sexy. Do a casual wave of the arm while “hot like me” is playing. Bend down
to the left and right, run your hands up your thighs, slap your butt cheeks, once on each side. (Yes, butt cheeks—make sure you slap both—no cheating! This is EXERCISE!) Bend down again and on random beats pop your chest out—this will happen 3 times. Pop what your momma gave ya. Do some random kickboxing-like moves. If it helps, pretend you’re kicking your PCD DVD into the trash. It helps.

What to do now? The girls on the DVD are practicing their pole moves, I guess I’ll do that. Oh wait, here we go AGAIN. Walk 3 steps, place hands on hips on 4. Shake your hips while doing so. Leave lips slightly open to look sexy. Do a casual wave of the arm while “hot like me” is playing. I think you get the point. You do the “routine” about 5+ times during the song, and in between each set you just freestyle some stripper moves hoping your husband/boyfriend/child doesn’t walk into the door to see you swinging your hair around while you’re in sweatpants.

Not being too impressed with the first routine, I did decide to move on to the next routine.
Maybe they get progressively harder,
I thought to myself. Up next, burlesque. More stripper moves. Robin starts off the segment by telling you to get a boa or a men’s tie. I don’t have a boa, and my hubby does have a lot of ties, but they’re zipper ties. Not gonna work. I finally found a suitable replacement…a pashmina. The beautiful, magenta pashmina given to me by a friend/coworker for Christmas. It is gorgeous. The burlesque routine starts off and you hold the boa/pashmina over your head and move your hips from side to side. Then, you turn to the right and rub the pashmina over your chest and lift your leg up and rub it on your leg, too. Alright. You’re supposed to do all that in like 3 seconds. FAST. They look all hot doing it, and I almost broke the coffee table trying to do it fast and getting my foot caught in the pashmina.

And this next move nearly caused a HUGE problem. You take the boa (or my pashmina, which is considerably larger/heavier than a boa) and you swing it to the left and right. It basically slaps down onto the floor and you snap it back up and repeat on the opposite side. I did this forgetting that there is an obstacle to all this. It’s called a ceiling fan. The noise and movement my ceiling fan made when I whipped my pashmina up into it nearly made me shart myself.