CIA 2104: The Greatest Step Workout Ever Plus Body Conditioning

Gay Gasper
Year Released: 2001

Categories: Balance/Medicine/Mini/Stability Ball, Step Aerobics , Total Body Workouts


Greatest Step Workout? I don't consider the title hyperbole at all! I am forcing myself not to do this one too much, but it is difficult. The only improvements I could suggest would be a)new set please! and b)put it on DVD.
The step workout begins with a great warm up-- fast paced, with some dynamic stretching. You then go on to learn (I think) 4 combinations. The last is the trickiest for me, because it involves straddling the step and ending up on the correct side. I always have trouble with such moves. I think someone described the choreography's complexity as somewhere between Kari and Cathe. I would agree with that. Parts of it reminded me of Rhythmic Step, and parts of it reminded me of Hot Steps. The impact is fairly low, and the speed is a little slower than Cathe's. I do this workout on an 8" step to get a good workout-- the same height I use for most non- Cathe step workouts (sometimes Cathe seems too easy for this reason, but the speed is just too fast for me to raise the height of the step.)I am not a fan of recognizable tunes a la Christi, but the versions of songs used were different enough to make them
palatable to me.
The strength workout was good too. I have tubing, so I used it, but I don't think that it is necessary. She only uses it for a few exercises, and dumbbells would work just fine. I like the fact that you get a thorough full body workout in thirty minutes. Gay alternates working upper and lower body parts. The abs were definitely the weak link in the workout, but that is ok. I have plenty of other ab routines.
I don't usually grade workouts, but I will give this one an A+.

Roz

11/04/2003