I tried various Tracey Staehle workouts and this is the only one I kept. The reason? It's SO MUCH FUN! The music is really good, intrumental but recognizable tunes; the exercisers are relaxed and obviously know each other and give off a relaxed and fun vibe; the moves are varied and interesting, not the same old, same old. She does moves, builds a combination starting out slow and then varying the tempo of the moves, and then repeats the combination, and then moves on. There is "taking it from the top of a combination", but not "taking it from the top of the routine". There are athletic moves, dancey moves, and med ball and there are three premixes on the DVD that gives each of those 3 options. Keep in mind though that the med ball moves are only a very small part of the moves, around 10 minutes. So yes, the title is a misnomer. It's mainly a hi/lo workout with 2 short med ball segments.

Many of the moves are high impact, but it's easy enough to modify. Often, she starts with the low-impact option and you can just stay with it when they go high impact.

I think this is a well designed and well executed workout. It's the only one of her workouts that I have kept over the years.

Instructor Comments:
She's encouraging and funny. Doing this workout is like working out with friends.

Laura S.