Step Reebok: Intense Moves

Gin Miller
Year Released: 1997

Categories: Step Aerobics


I was really curious whether or not I would like this video. People were raving about it, but people also raved about Energy Sprint, which I stared at blandly on two separate occassions before putting it on the Exchange.

Well, this tape's a winner as far as I'm concerned. I think the difference is Gin's presence. There was something about KV that just turned me off; Gin, on the other hand, made me want to try this tape as soon as possible. I think this is the only tape I do that I actually whoop along with - it's that motivating! It is also *so* hard! I always do Cathe F tapes with two risers, but I do this tape with one riser and it still kicks my butt!

I must take a moment, however, to poke fun at the whole feel of this tape. My husband says that in ten years people are going to see this tape and go, "Ew, that looks so 90's!" It's a good thing that Gin is upbeat and having fun on this tape, because otherwise there is a sort of ominous feel about the whole thing. I don't know ... between the very dim lighting, black costmes, robotic "crew," the weird pyramid set ... I always feel like this is some sort of apocolyptic era where the only people that survived are in the desert, dressed in black and doing this workout. In a way it's almost an odd sort of comic relief. Regardless, this tape definitely gets an A+.

Instructor Comments:
Let me brag for a moment and say that Gin Miller teaches at my health club in Atlanta, and I did her classes before I even saw any of her videos. The main thing I remember was this bizarre euphoric feeling in her classes - you were doing things that you knew no sane person would actually do, but you were so caught up you couldn't possibly stop. This tape has the same sort of feel.

Jen Blaske

01/28/1998