Step Heaven

Christi Taylor
Year Released: 2000

Categories: Step Aerobics


I bought this tape because music is a big motivator for me. And I do love the sound track. I have been exercising to videos for about 11 years (it's amazing how the choices have grown over the years) and I consider myself an advanced exerciser. I consider myself pretty good at following choreography. I don't have too much trouble with Kari Anderson, Cathe Friedrich, or Gay Gasper. I do however have serious trouble with this tape.

First, the background exercisers do not always show the basic moves. Quite often they are following right along with Christi. Second, several times during the tape Christi's cuing is wrong - giggles "Oops, I meant..." I don't think it's too much too ask that a tape be edited for correctness. Especially a tape as complex as this one. Finally, I thought there should be more of a break down. I read in a previous review that requests have been made to Christi to have less of a breakdown so I can't fault her for that. However, I do think she should have included a "cheat sheet" at the end of the tape like Tim Culwell does. He breaks down all the moves at the end of the tape. You preview the instuctional section before you workout and then you're ready to go and you don't ever have to watch it again if you don't want to. This would have been much more useful than the bloopers and childhood photos of Christi that were included. As I said earlier, I'm an advanced exerciser and I need my workouts. I've wasted 2 workout days trying to do this tape and only getting a moderate workout because of my inability to follow along. I will try 2 more times, but I can't waste much more time than that. I hope I will learn this tape and love it, but even so there are some simple things that could have been done to make it easier to follow right off the bat.

Marisa Schmidt

12/05/2000