Tae Bo embodies late-1990s culture, and its creator Billy Blanks is still teaching it in a fitness world that gets more crowded every day. It is 7 a.m. and everyone is kinetic and beaming and dressed ...

The master is being mocked. “The Macarena of exercise,” read a New York Times reference to a story on Billy Blanks’ Tae-Bo. The Onion (www.theo nion.com) reported these “poll results”: “Billy Blanks’ ...

Intermediate and Advanced levels; mixed impact; four-video set, $59.95. A unique blend of tae kwon do, boxing and aerobics, all set to a pulsating hip-hop beat. It’s a fat-blasting series of jabs, ...