Dancing with the Stars (ABC) ninth season recently aired and now it’s time to get in shape like those on the small screen. You can dance off your Thanksgiving meal and get in shape before the tenth season begins!

“Dancing with the Stars: Dance Off the Pounds” and “Dancing with the Stars: Dance Body Tone” features three of the show’s professional dancers – Kym Johnson, Lacey Schwimmer and Dmitry Chaplin – demonstrating conditioning dance routines inspired by the show including Swing, Jive, Quickstep, Freestyle, Latin and Tango. It’s the most fun you’ll ever have losing weight and toning your body – without a partner!

Each season, audiences watch in amazement as stars shrink down and shape up on ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars.” Now you can share their weight-loss success and dance off the pounds with three different cardio dance routines—Swing, Jive and Quickstep—led by pro dancers Dmitry, Lacey and Kym. Each routine gets your body warmed up with the signature moves of the featured dances before progressively adding on to create complete, calorie-blasting workouts—so you can learn with ease and get dancer fit all at once. Join the fat-burning fun and dance your way to a superstar body!

Dancing with the Stars fans and those wanting to learn basic dance steps will enjoy this DVD. You’ll be treated to three dances, Swing, Jive, and Quickstep which will be a fun challenge for beginners. It will definitely be a challenge since there is not much instruction. While you will learn dance vocabulary easily, this DVD would be much easier to follow if this were an instructional dance workout. Instead, the leader announces what step is about to be done, and then does it once or twice before adding that step to the overall dance number. There is not enough time in between announcing the next dance step and performing the dance step in the entire dance routine to correctly manage each basic step. While it might be hard to follow if you are not familiar with these dance steps already, it will make beginners break a sweat! It seems as though if you are already experienced in a steady work out, these 15 minute exercises are simple dance routines to have fun with as a DWTS fan.

Kim led Swing which includes the leg-sculpting moves like the Susie Q, Heel-Toe Swivels and the Shimmy Shake. She was enthusiastic and motivational but her workout could have used more instruction. Lacey led Jive which is fast-paced including lively kicks and rocking the hips but for a Jive, Lacey could have been more animated. Dmitry led Quickstep who was the most enthusiastic, motivating, and instructional of the three dance professionals. However, his back up dancers did not seem to have practiced their timing enough which at times can be distracting. Kim, Lacey, and Dmitry lead the 5 minute Cool Down which helps stretch your muscles and relax at a steady pace.

Notes:
– There is no partner needed to work out with this DVD.

– It is comforting that all of the workouts are conducted on a set similar to the DWTS set however, you at home do not have that luxury so it is best to work out in an open space that does not have carpet.

Features:
– You can choose to workout with “instruction” or with “music only” which are great options as once you learn the routines, it is much more convenient to exercise with simply the music.

– You can build a “custom work” out by choosing which segments you want to do and the DVD will play them without interruption! This makes for quite the nice 50 minute uninterrupted work out!

This is a great start to dancing off those pounds, so make sure to pick it up in stores tomorrow!

Dancing with the Stars: Dance Off The Pounds will become available on December 1, 2009.