Sheâs known as a celebrity trainer and creator of the 21 Day Fix and 21 Day Fix Extreme fitness and portion control programs, but Autumn Calabrese is gearing up for a new project, teaming with country singer Jo Dee Messina to bring you Country Heat.
âWe are releasing Country Heat, which is my newest fitness program with Beachbody,â Autumn tells Nash Country Daily. âItâs a cardio dance fitness program but [set] to country music. Itâs the best of the best country songs. All the songs made famous by artists you love. Jo Deeâs got her original vocals on [the DVD], which we love. Weâve also got âA Womanâs Rantâ [from Jo Deeâs fifth studio album, Me] and she wrote a song specifically for Country Heat called âNight Crawl,â which is amazing. But we also have music made famous by Luke Bryan, Big & Rich, Cole Swindell, Reba McEntire and The Dixie Chicks, so weâve got a little of everyone on thereâjust fun songs that you love and want to dance to.
âCountry Heat consists of five dance workouts that are 30 minutes each,â Autumn continues. âThen itâs one dance conditioning workout, also 30 min, still with a little bit of dancing in there. You get a little bit of your ab work and your squats and your lunges in that one.â
As a part of Country Heat, Jo Dee lent her song âA Womanâs Rantâ to the program as well as writing an original song for the project, âNight Crawl.â
âItâs about leaving your crazy behind,â says Jo Dee. â[Singing] leave your cell phone join your friends on the dance floor come on letâs do the Nightcrawl. Itâs just aboutâinstead of going out and getting drunk, itâs for Beachbody so I canât say go get drunkâI had to keep it clean and motivated and fun and danceable. They sent over beats and snips of songs they had already so I thought what grooves donât they have. Itâs kind of like writing for a movie, they send you the script, they send you certain scenes and itâs like âOK, write.â
10 of 40 songs heard on Country Heat
â5-1-5-0â â Dierks Bentley
âA Womanâs Rantâ â Jo Dee Messina
âAll About Tonightâ â Blake Shelton
âBorn to Boogieâ â Hank Williams Jr.
âChattahoocheeâ â Alan Jackson
âDibsâ â Kelsea Ballerini
âHell of a Nightâ â Dustin Lynch
âI Like It, I Love Itâ â Tim McGraw
âIâm Here for the Partyâ â Gretchen Wilson
âKick the Dust Upâ â Luke Bryan
*Songs are rerecorded and do NOT feature original artists
âSo I came up with the idea for a âNight Crawl,â which is just about getting out there and dancing and forgetting the world.â
After meeting through Twitter and hooking up for the project, Jo Dee and Autumn have become fast friends. The two will be launching the product on July 28 at the Beachbody Nashville Summit taking place at Nissan Stadium in downtown Nashville, where more than 30,000 fitness professionals will descend. Jo Dee will take the stage to perform her original song, âNight Crawl,â at the Opening General Session where Autumn will lead a Country Heat choreographed dance.
âIt isnât line dancing,â said Jo Dee. âItâs dancing in groups. Weâre thinking do-si-do, real stiff movements, but itâs fun. Itâs like youâre out with Justin Bieber doing uh-uh yeah [claps]. Itâs cool! Itâs fun dancing. And itâs all done to country music.â
âItâs a sexy dance,â Autumn explains. âItâs got two parts. Itâs the fun and then itâs the sexy. So itâs like entice [claps to beat] and then rock it out. So itâs slow slow, quick quick quick.â
Country Heat will be available on Thursday, July 28, at teambeachbody.com for $59.85. You can find more information on Autumn and the workout at countryheat.com.
