This workout consists of three parts: a cardio workout (box says 50 minutes, but it's closer to 55), a weights section, and an abs section (weights + abs = 35 minutes), folllowed by a 4 minute stretch. I'm only reviewing the cardio section, since I didn't do the weights or abs.

Overall, I really enjoyed this workout. It's a fast-moving, complex step workout with excellent cueing. It reminds me a lot of Kristen Kagen's Step This Way, a little of Cathe's Low Max, and a little of Donna Read's Step Fever. The choreography is much more complex than Low Max -- lots of spins and turns -- but I'd say the cueing is much better. She cues very early, occasionally so early that I started the move before she did. It was similar to Step This Way in the rapid-fire building of combos and the intensity blasts between the combos. I don't think the blasts were as long or intense as Low Max, but they were somewhat similar in content: side to side lunges, straight up jumps, and walking around the step with one foot on the step. There was definitely jumping involved, but it was almost all onto or on top of the step. Like Kristen Kagen, she had some new moves (or maybe names for moves) that I hadn't heard before. Mostly she explained these very well (example: a riding hood was two knees on the step, turn and lunge knee off the end). A few times, usually for simpler moves, she just named a move and expected we'd know what to do (example: a pump squat is get on the step from the side, two quick half-squats, then off the step on the same side). The cueing isn't perfect; in fact the very first part of the first combo, she turns a charleston kick into a kick, turn, mambo, chacha back to the step, but keeps saying just charleston the entire workout. I usually need the instructor to cue every move every time, but I didn't have much trouble keeping up the first time through. I think this workout is worth a try for anyone who enjoys moderate to complex choreography. I think this is the athletic side of complex: not a lot of quick rhythm changes, but plenty of turns.

Kimberly N