This workout is structured as follows:

- 9 min warm up on step: fussy combinations which are hard to pick up
- 44 min of intervals using step: 8 sets, some of which incorporate a medicine ball (I used a dumbbell) for "strength training" (but I thought it was more like cardio intensified by an added weight element)
- 7 min of athletic drill intervals on the floor (you have to put away your step before this)
- 4 min dynamic cool down

Impact: Mostly high. The step combos are both high and low impact, but the intervals are all high impact. The floor work is predominantly high impact.

Level: High intermediate to low advanced, although an advanced exerciser will get a good workout if they know all the combos and can go "all out."

Overall impression: Aside from the awkward, overly intricate warm up, I liked the workout -- it was simple enough to catch on the first time through, but not so simple that it was boring. I broke a sweat, but I think that's more from the length of the workout (just over an hour) than the moves themselves, since the non-interval combos aren't very strenuous.

Instructor Comments:
Mindy jokes so frequently throughout the workout that she starts to sound a little sarcastic, but that didn't bother me too much since I was focused on the workout. For those who don't like chatty instructors, be forewarned that she pretty much talks nonstop, so much so that I actually noticed when she was quiet for a moment during the last set of pushups toward the end of the step portion of the workout.

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