A great workout to great music. Faith is right up there with Christi and Franny and even a bit of Kari, with her pivots and turns. Her low impact warm-up with some stretches is a lot of fun. Faith incorporates swivels and mambos (she just loves to swivel and mambo), grapevines, leaps, v-steps to the front and back, pivots, squats, a repeater flip move that I am still having a problem with, shuffle with a three step turn, and a nice move called "jacks/lunge/slide". Even if you make a mistake, it's easy to catch up in this workout. There are no plyometrics, so you can do this after an intense workout like Maximum Cardio or Intense Moves. Faith keeps the pace nice and steady with no breaks or marches in place, so your heartrate stays at a nice steady, not catastrophically high, pace. She keeps saying "bang it up." After 35 minutes of hi/lo which flew like the wind, comes her fun step workout. I find this workout, both with the music and some of the moves, very similar to Jennifer Mills workout. Faith does the charleston, rock step, three step turns, karate kicks, reverse turns (yes, I know, supposedly not a safe move), and a lot of floor moves on both sides of the step. Toward the end of the step workout, it got just a bit too tedious, but overall it is great. Her sculpting section consisted of using a body bar for squats with upright rows, static lunges with one arm rows and lateral raises, then uses the tubing on the step for back and shoulders, switching to rear flies with light weights. There are tricep dips with light weights on the thighs with alternate leg lifts, two sets of pushups, and a 6 minute ab segment on and off the step. There was no bicep work. I would like Faith to do more CIA tapes. I know I am comparing her to others, but that is just to give you an idea of the kind of workout you will get, and hopefully all CIA fanatics will enjoy it as much as I did.

maryann parker