Those comments are exactly why I watch the videos long enough to know the moves and then mute the TV and put on my own music to do the workout to. I can't stand how condesending they sound. Now I know they don't mean to be condescending, but that is how I interpret it. "Feel the burn!" Yeah, I feel the burn all the way up my ASS your crack ho! This is why I usually like videos that have guys as the instructors because they are not as annoying.
And yes, every video much have once asshole (although I call them the resident doucebag, pardon me) I think you should take a picture of your TV paused with Kali making a horrid face and post it!
That's a GREAT idea! Actually, they're both great ideas. I'm going to have to try them out.
OK, you are not allowed to write such incredibly HILARIOUS blog posts anymore because I have been laughing like an ass here for about ten minutes, picturing this Kali chick. And the whole thing, really... God, you are a funny writer!!
(I'm kidding: please keep writing these blog posts. PLEASE. I want to feel the burn, lady.)
I used to do that trick with muting the sound with one of my workout videos, but that was a VHS tape I couldn't play anymore. I'd have to watch my two DVDs and learn those before I could do this trick again, and I doubt I can take the audio on either of those videos on repeat enough to learn it. One of them kept insisting I "put some booty into it!" ...and truth be told, I simply cannot insert booty into much of ANYTHING. I'm the person Weird Al wrote "White and Nerdy" about. 
Holy crap, a lamprey mouth!! You finally nailed down what the hell is wrong with Keira Knightly!
Kudos, woman!
Lisa - "Put some booty into it"? Seriously? I think I would've screamed back, "No thank you!"
Trish - Thanks! I've been saying that for YEARS.
Your thing about literalness reminds me of being confused by Jane Fonda's video a million years ago. "Knees apart, feet together" flummoxed me.
But good for you. I got a pilates video from the library and returned it (overdue) without ever watching it.
At work they're doing this "Quick Fit (TM)" campaign where we're on teams and everybody has to exercise for thirty minutes EVERY DAY for TWELVE WEEKS. I was made to be my team leader so I made us a chart with star stickers and everything. The people who own dogs and have to walk them formed a team and are kicking everyone's collective ass.
Wow. There are a bunch of women in my department who work out together all the time. The best part is, they're all skinny anyway.
And to be fair, I had this DVD for MONTHS before I could bring myself to even look at it.
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