I'm a beginner who thought she wasintermediate! I'm also overweight (around 210) and found this challenging and really had to end up modifying. This is the only cardio I've done where my face got red and I was sweating buckets! I stick to a lot of leslie and george on the urban rebounder and a lot of walking but his was WAY differnt for me! I was feeling guilty over all my exercise purchases so told myself I had to pick one of the bss4 workouts to do with the transfirmer since I just got it Friday. So I ended up picking this one without knowing what it was like. Decided to halfway preview it then decided I'd better just do it or I'd scare myself out of it like I did with fitprime the other day!

anyways, this is 45 min of aerobics. I'd say pure aerobics, esp if you're out of shape/overweight. I had trouble with the choreography but I wouldn't say it's that difficult - I'm just not good at step the first time through and got confused. There are sections where you do step (I used the 6 inch part and not the 8) then do floor cardio that she calls low impact but shows some bouncier versions. most of this I followed ok but didn't bounce so much. then you put both steps together for tall box climbs. honesty i can't say she did that many but I was fried. forget the dumbbells and then later when she repeats a step series, fl oor series then tall box, I took the top box off and used the 8 inch by itself. towards the end she uses the incline and I found that fun but challenging. but like I said, i'm out of shape. I've been doing the cardios I mentioned for about 30 min-45 min almost daily for 2 1/2 months so this was a challenge. I can't imagine getting through this (esp the tall box stuff) as an absolute beginner at the size I was then!) I plan on doing this one again because it got my heart rate up and I could feel the lower body working. The arms didnt get much of a workout because I didnt use thedumbbellst he whole time plus couldnt' get the hang of the feet/arms together. maybe next time I'll add more to it. this was afun routine and although I felt I barely made it the time did go by pretty fast and I like how she did step for a while t hen floor aerobics then tall box then repeated then did the incline. she had lunges and a lot of grapevines and overall a nice aerobic routine. I'm curious to see how I do on this one 3 months from now!

Instructor Comments:
I like this instructor. has a 'strong' accent but I do too so it doesn't bother me.

Susanna