This is an older video that I would put a huge CAUTION sign on. DON'T BUY THIS VIDEO UNLESS YOU PREVIEW IT FIRST. The techniques she uses are dated, to say nothing of having "guest" celebrity exercisers who really add nothing to the video, in fact they can be distracting. The woman in the first section is painfully thin (I know some people are naturally thin, and perhaps this fits here), and they talk about how she just had a baby and worked out to keep wt off, this was scary to me. There are 3 step sections that have very very basic moves, they get harder by first adding hand wts and then adding wt vests along with the hand wts. I occasionally like non-thinking tapes, but the moves here are too basic to interest most int or int/adv exercisers, also the last section is done with hand wts, a wt vest on a 10 inch step. Lots and lots of step ups, v-steps, straddles are most complex steps on this tape.

There are some toning sections that are basic and again there are different celebrities in part. The celebrity in the stretch made several distracting comments that disturbed the flow of the video.

This video might be for someone who is truly choreography impaired, and wants to use wts while stepping. But might I suggest a Gilad tape or Candace Copeland's Step Ahead, or even buns of steel instead?

Overall F for safety and fun.

Instructor Comments:
This is an older video and it shows. Kathy uses both hand weights and weight vests in the step portions. She also has a long motivational speech in the beginning and presents it with a monotone voice. Since I haven't viewed any of her newer videos, I really can't comment on her as an instructor overall, but in this video, she's not very good.

The guest exercisers, with the exception of Julianne Phillips were of no inspirational value, no muscles, questionable form, etc, although most were pleasant, they sometimes made insipid comments. Kathy looked like an amazon compared to them, and she's pretty tiny but well muscled.

LynnO