Get Moving: Walking for Weight Loss

Madeleine Lewis
Year Released: 2004

Categories: Walking Aerobics


This has three 10-minute walking workouts. But the "choreography" is more low-impact aerobic type movements than Leslie Sansone type walking movements. Each segment has actually about 8-1/2 minutes of "walking" then a minute+ of lower body strengthening. The "walking" portion includes several 8-count intensifiers.
#1 - basics: marches, side taps, ham curls, knee lifts. The strength move is squats, then add knee lift, then add rotation.
#2 - the pace picks up a little bit. I found this segment to be somewhat boring. The initial mambo sequence has too many reps before switching sides. My mind wandered. The strength move is lunges.
#3 - I liked this segment. The pace is a little quicker and there's more variety of movement, such as twist torso and "throw a baseball" while doing side taps. The strength move is lunge, twist, knee lift, twist to other side. Reminds me of TLP.
#4 - This is a nice 11-minute stretch.

The setting is outdoors, an Asian garden setting. Two background exercisers. The one who is supposed to be doing the easy version usually doesn't. Madeleine does, or just tells you what the easy version is. The music is rather subdued; I'd have liked it a bit louder, especially during the stretch - I really like the music selection for that portion.

I thought I'd be bored by this workout, but wasn't (except for segment #2.) I'm in a low-intensity rotation right now, and this kept my heart rate up to where I wanted (between 100 and 125). I'll use this one again.

Instructor Comments:
Madeleine is pleasant and cheerful. I find her graceful and I like her tone of voice. Her cueing is fine. The choreography is fairly basic.

FirmDancer

12/01/2004