Supersweatin': Party Off the Pounds

Richard's videos are the best fun wise! Low impact, but you work up a sweat. His choice of music is the best, too! I have all 4 Sweatin to the Oldies, which are 60's music. This one is 80's music, with really fun songs. I was a kid in the 60's and my kids were kids in the 80's so its a trip down memory lane whenever I do aerobics with Richard Simmons. Like the Sweatin videos there are all ages and sizes of people. At the end it is very inspiring because they tell how much weight they have lost. His exercises are the best when you really don't feel like exercising...Its more of a party. No dread factor. I personally know they work if its weight you want to lose, because I lost 35lbs. doing these videos back in VHS days. I told someone at work I still do Richard Simmons, besides Zumba, and they snorted at me...(A young person.) Don't knock it til you've tried it.

I have to say, I have been doing other workouts for years and never really gave Richard a "good" try. Well, after severe boredom from my other dvd's I bought a bunch of Richard Simmons dvds. One day I woke up in my late 40's, very close to 50 (how did that happen????) and wanted something new to try. I have gotten bored to tears with just about all my other workout dvds. I have tried many exercise dvd's. All of Richard's dvds I have tried are great. This one uses 80's music and he seems to bump it up a notch (it's one of the newer dvd's) in parts. It is a very good workout. I have worked out for years so I am not a couch potato. This is a fun indoor dvd for a change. I don't stop and wonder how much longer is left in this one like I did with a very popular walking instructor (and I had a bunch of hers, too). There is not enough time for boredom. You are constantly doing something "fun". It doesn't matter if you look silly, the point is moving!

I was in a really tough yet effective tabatas/boxing/weights style training program and lost weight but ended up hurting my knees and aggravating my already touchy hip. Since then, I packed on about 20+ additional pounds over my already overweight self. I took off 8 pounds doing keto for a month, then I added back in the carbs and started using my exercise bike on uphill climbs to build muscle. I fell on ice and hurt my hip again, so I got this thinking hey it will be easy just to move around a little. I was expecting about a 200 calorie burn on my Polar monitor, but it was a whopping 510 calories and I was doing 86% of my max heart rate on average. I weigh about 170 and I'm 5'4". I was sweating a LOT but it sure was FUN!!! Of course, your calorie burn may vary based on your weight and how much effort you put into the dancing. I was trying to learn the moves so I was all over the place effort-wise. I like this much better than Jillian, Jackie, etc. Richard Simmons always has that positive love which is so refreshing. It is also great to see people of all sizes dancing and having fun. That is also missing in modern workout DVDs. My daughter also had a great time doing this with me. I'm going to do the Sweatin to the Oldies dvd next time and see how much that burns.

I agree with a few of the other reviewers that this is more intense than the original sweatin' workouts. I really enjoyed and found the sweatin' with the oldies 2 workout fairly easy to follow. The workouts here are a good bit more difficult to follow and faster transitions between moves. I KNOW that I didn't do all the moves correctly because of how fast the workout is, but still feel I got a good workout...Just probably not as Richard intended. Still glad I have it, but think I'll have to get a lot better at my other sweatin' workout before I feel like trying this one again.

I practically wrote a book in my review of Sweatin to the Oldies so I'll try to make this quick. My mom (51) and I (30) work out to this video. It's a lot tougher than Sweatin to the Oldies but only because for the two of us each video seemed to target certain but different parts of our body. I started at 365 and my mom at 230. Four weeks later I'm 350 and my mom is 220.We exercise everyday. It's fun, the music is good and we like seeing all the smiling people. At first we didn't finish the entire video and now we're at two videos a day. We ordered a fourth video so that we don't have to do our third video both days but we don't plan to go beyond that. Our moves are still not perfect or graceful but it's all good if we're moving. Once the video started to seem short to us we added the second video. Once we're used to working out with two videos we're going to add weights. Only one pound at a time. Slow and steady wins makes it to the end of the race without having a hard rebound. 😄

I love all the Sweatin' to the Oldies videos. They are so much fun and work so well. Party off the pounds is just as fun. A little more challenging, but that's the point. The music is great and Richard is awesome as usual! I love having fun and working out at the same time. It's perfect for days in between the gym. I highly recommend all his videos.

The music on this DVD is incredibly dance-worthy. As soon as I saw "I Wanna Dance With Somebody", I knew I had to have it, and the rest of the DVD didn't let me down! While it might not be to everyone's taste, it certainly is to mine. I mean, who DOESN'T want to have fun while they're losing weight? I know I certainly do.

Bought for my wife she likes it. She asked me to join her but I find the dance moves hard to follow. Richard and his dancers face you, I think it would be easier to follow if they faced the opposite way around.

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I love this DVD! Never, in a million years, did I think I would become a Richard Simmons' DVD fanatic. But this one is so much fun! I love the music. The songs, in order, are:"I Wanna Dance With Somebody""Let's Hear it for the Boy""True Colours""Like a Virgin""Hit Me With Your Best Shot""Mickey""If I Could Turn Back Time""Shake It Up""New Attitude""Lean On Me"I love (most of) these songs! Richard has a way of making the "routines" fun, too, so I find myself smiling and truly enjoying the exercise! Also, there's something to be said for his encouragement throughout. It's nice to hear things like, "You're fantastic," "I'm so proud of you," and "You can do it!" instead of verbal beatings like some of the exercise DVDs out there (seriously, why do people even buy those? How depressing!). I highly recommend this DVD.