I really like Marcus, and I like this workout, but it does have some flaws. Marcus is very charming and personable and he has fun choreography -- I'm not exactly sure who to compare him to, but the choreography reminded me a little of Donna Read's 9701 in the way it flowed together so nicely. This workout is fairly low-impact and not intense -- there are no "blasts" or "bursts," you just keep moving along at a steady pace. This was a plus for me but it won't suit the intensity junkies.

The flaws: The sound in the first half of the video is terrible; Marcus's voice is weirdly muffled and it was hard for me to understand what he was saying. The sound in the second half seemed fine (though not great). Also, the workout is just too long for my tastes -- it's almost an hour without the warmup and cooldown. I don't necessarily have anything against long workouts, but this one is unnecessarily long because of too much filler -- knees up or taps side-to-side -- and also because of the way the second half of the workout is put together. After you learn the first three combos, you repeat them a bunch of times, then he adds a fourth combo, then you repeat from the top a bunch of times, THEN he starts splitting the combos, which I normally love, but after nearly an hour I'd had enough, PLUS he messes up the first time he tries to splice the combos -- by throwing in a move that doesn't even appear in the video! -- and has to start over. So the second half really could have been a lot tighter. I think it would have been a better workout if he'd tightened things up and shortened it by ten minutes or so.

Even though I was frustrated at times, I really enjoyed this workout and would recommend it to step lovers who like complex choreography.

Instructor Comments:

Elisa B.