Step Heat

Cathe Friedrich
Year Released: 1995

Categories: Step Aerobics


This is a fairly fun workout, but I have determined that I am just not destined to join the ranks of the Cathe F followers. While this is very good intensity-wise, I don't think it's as much fun as many of the other step workouts I have. I much prefer Kari Anderson, Patrick Goudeau, and some others.

Cathe has some excellent moves, but they just don't seem to "flow" from one to the other. On this tape, the choreography is intermediate level, but you will need to be fast. Moves I really liked included where you do some T-steps off the back of the step and then step up on the step with a couple of knee lifts, then move into lunges. There is also an explosion-type move where you do 7 arabesque-repeaters, with the last 3 done with power. Those probably aren't very meaningful descriptions, but maybe someone will know what I'm talking about!

Despite having some very good choreography, I still don't like the workout enough to keep it. I've done it 3 times now, and although I get a very good cardio workout, I just don't enjoy it as much as with my other tapes.

Annie S.

09/15/1997