The action is more like dancing than exercises, that's why one big company calls it dancercise.

Also, Bill Clinton had been reelected, which was what Mandy had wanted, and, perhaps most exciting, people were really responding to cardio ballet, the class she taught at the Jewish Community Center.

Maybe once she’d dreamed of jazz-dance stardom, roses heaped on her Capezios, but keeping it real and teaching cardio ballet constituted triumphs enough.