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Weight Watchers: Step & Sculpt [VHS]

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I bought this tape 50 pounds ago and still use it occasionally for variety. It is a great introduction to step but is not overly instructive for those who already know step commands. Form is not very well explained in the weight intervals but if you use light weights you shouldn't get into too much trouble. It is a fairly quick tape... aproximately a half hour. The intervals make it seem even faster. My only real disappointment with this tape is that there are no exercises for the abdominal area. Also, I don't know if the description tells you this but you will need an aerobic step and some hand weights.

I bought a step a couple of weeks ago, but I couldn't do the tape it came with for more than five minutes. (It seemed like the instructor was trying to incorporate every single move she had ever learned. She didn't slow down the moves at first so that you could learn them and her cuing consisted of fancy terms that only an experienced stepper would know.) This Weight Watchers tape is the exact OPPOSITE of that tape. The instructor shows each step combo slowly a few times before she speeds it up, and she incorporates the same basic 10-15 steps into a variety of combos. Her cuing is excellent and very easy to follow (knee up, side step, toe touch--doesn't get simpler than that.) If you are still having trouble following the video, you can modify it by doing less arm movements. Also, the video is broken down into a warmup segment, three aerobic segments, and a cool-down segment, so if you are limited for time, you could do just a few segments. Just a couple notes of advice: Obviously, you need to have a step (duh), but you also need light hand weights. Your workout won't be the same without them because the arm toning sections concentrate on the arms and minimize the stepping needed. Also, if you are a very good stepper and attend a lot of step classes, this workout might be too easy for you. I think it is more focused towards beginners like me.