Step Reebok: Extreme Step
Gin MillerYear Released: 1998
Categories: Step Aerobics
Basic moves with alot of high impact using your step. I found this video to be a little too boring for me since I love complex choreography and heavy weights. I recognized some of the moves from Intense Moves. The upper body work that is incorporated in the first stepping is lat pushups where you use one arm and push up and down on your step sideways. I was confused as to what I was working( lats, obliques?) because Gin doesn't say, this is working so and so. She finally calls it a lat pushup at the end so it must work your lat. The other exercise for the upper body is pushups. Some of the moves I have seen in Keli Roberts Abs and more where you lift your leg up while doing pushups. So the upper body moves in the first segmant use no weights and use your own body weight. Some other moves are shuffle from one side of your step and do a basic on the end. Another move is really really tough. You Hop front then side then hop front then try and hop all the way facing the other direction. Finally they say to do a 360 turn all the way around. Gin did it! Amazing! John Jay does it too. This workout is very intense.
After the stepping. Gin says to run and get your weights and it's so funny because they all run towards the camera which is focused on a pile of weights and they all act like greedy children at a toy sale! Funny! The upper body is ok. Nothing much. They do reverse flies standing with leg extensions to the rear and finally chest flies with lower leg ( Keli Roberts would call it a Dead Bug move)extentions. Then they change the chest flies to Pull overs. Gin does personal training instead of doing the exercise. Gin is wearing a black hat on backwards and black exercise bra with black hip hugger exercise pants that flare a little at the bottom. She looks leaner then her Intense moves. Her abs are rock hard! The music didn't move me that much as compared to Intense Moves which I liked.
Sometimes the camera would go behind a pole too slow which was irritating. John Jay kept saying"oh baby" to Gin which was irritating unless they are married and John is her new husband. I noticed that nothing was mentioned about a person showing easier moves but there is a girl in the back that shows easier moves if you don't what to do the really tough high impact moves. I didn't like the set that much. It was a cold warehouse look. One neat thing is they show an aerial view of the top of Gin and John Jay and it is the same way I am stepping which I thought was neat. Helps you with the choreography. I think Reebok did this in Aerostep too.
If you like basic moves but high impact, this ones for you.
Instructor Comments:
Gin Miller does an excellent job at teaching this video. She has a great personality. She has a guy name John Jay that was in the Reebok Versa training abs and legs video teach a little. He teaches the same move and he has a southern accent. He keeps calling her,"Oh baby".