This is a short step tape made in 1990 that is 30 minutes in all including warm-up and cool-down. Leslie uses her basic walk aerobics moves to encourage people to try stepping, as she puts it. She also says things about how much she didn't think stepping was a good idea until she tried it (go figure!). And she talks frequently about how this is a low impact but high fat burning workout. She does all the talking and occasionally talks to the other excercisers, a basically non-descript group of people. Her cuing is so-so (not nearly as good as in her other walk aerobics videos) and she finds herself on the wrong foot a couple of times. She also will, sometimes, tell you that you will start stepping again and then march for a very long period of time. The set and music are also non-descript.

All that said, though, this is a very good tape for a true beginner to fitness and stepping. I gave a copy of this to a friend who was very very out of shape and expressed an interest in using her new step but said that the tape that had accompanied it had her winded in a few minutes. She told me she had done this whole tape and was tired, but ok. The moves are ultra-basic. I suppose if you were incredibly against dancy moves you could up the step height a lot and make this a basically ok short workout. While itdoes get boring after a bit because it's so repetitive, it served me when I needed it.

Jen Pitoniak