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Summary: Intense but BORING
Comment: This is a good athletic step workout, even beginners should be able to do it. However, even though there is variety among the intervals, within each interval you do the same VERY simple move for three minutes. By simple I mean doing over-the-top or ski jumps on to the step for THREE MINUTES. Furthermore, since the base move is what you do for the two "rest" minutes before the high-intensity one minute interval, beginners who only do the base move won't get the full benefit of the interval training. Overall, an OK step workout, but don't buy it if you're looking for an interesting workout.
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Summary: Step Up to the Challenge!
Comment: I have over 20 step videos, 6 of which are from the Reebok series. Intense Moves is, without a doubt, the most challenging video I own. Don't even think about trying this video yet if you are just starting out because this workout requires tons of stamina. This workout takes you through 10 intervals that push you to the limit of your current endurance level. Gin Miller (one of the best aerobics instructors in the business) starts each interval by showing you a base move and then demonstrates two or three other ways to complete the move that requires more energy. Here are a few examples: in the first interval, you can do a basic over-the top with a jump or you could add a leap before going over-the-top, or, at maximum effort, you can add a lunge back. In interval 4, you can do a ski jump up on top of the bench or you can do a ski jump behind the bench to each side or (at maximum effort) you can ski jump over the bench. Once you have chosen which level you want to work at, you explode into it for one minute. A timer breaks it down into 15-second chunks so you don't have to work at your maximum effort the entire time. After the minute is up, Gin brings you down with a 2-minute "rest" period. You will not be kicking back during these "rest" periods. While you "rest", you will be doing basic aerobics that will build up to the next interval. I've found that the base moves to these intervals (the minimum effort) require power moves (i.e. airborne moves) that are often used as an advanced alternative on other step videos.This workout is challenging, but it is also fun. You do not repeat the same intervals, so the workout is always fresh and moves very quickly. Plus, Gin Miller is cool and, unlike with some other workout videos, you feel cool using her workouts. Even though this video wears me out, I find myself wanting to pop it in my VCR. I can do higher levels for longer periods of time each time I use it. The entire workout (including warm-up and cool down) is under 50 minutes. I definitely recommend Intense Moves for any intermediate and advanced stepper who wants to improve his/her endurance.
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Summary: Very intense cardio, but flexible for different levels
Comment: - This is the most aerobically challenging tape I have. When I do this workout, I pretend I'm speedskater Bonnie Blair (hah! maybe in my next life!)
- The cueing is perfect, and the moves have a lot of variety without being complicated.
- The moves are taken more from sports than from dance (basketball, skiing, speedskating). Some of them are really incredible -- jumping all the way over your step with your feet together (over and over fast), "plunges," in which you do a deep lunge with one foot on the step and one foot off, then jump way up and switch feet, 64 times in one minute, etc!
- Gin Miller shows three levels -- hard, harder, hardest -- for each interval, then encourages you to decide for how much of the 60-second interval you want to work your hardest. The little clock that shows on the screen during the 60 seconds is a great idea. How can she jump so high and gets her feet so far up off the ground, while talking and explaining the moves? What a powerful, graceful athlete!
- The workout team is great -- a group of athletes in modest gym attire, not a bunch of thong-wearing Barbie and Ken dolls. They look as if they are having a very good, serious workout. They do smile occasionally, but they don't look as if they have been told to plaster on a fake smile for the whole workout.
- The set is pretty silly -- dark, with funny golden pyramids all around -- and the atmosphere is overly serious to the point of being comical, like the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" show. But that doesn't matter, you feel as if you have really accomplished something when you get through all ten intervals.
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Summary: Kicks butt!
Comment: This tape is not for the weak hearted. If you follow it to a "t", you will get, without a doubt, one of the most challenging step workouts anywhere. It beats most of the hard core step workouts at the gym.
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Summary: Best Step Tape There Is!
Comment: I recently trained to hike Pike's Peak - 13 miles to 14,000 elevation. I needed a Step tape that could get me conditioned for that type of challenge so I tried Intense Moves. It is the hardest tape I have ever done, but it makes you feel great. Doing this tape twice a week with other Reebok tapes has made my legs stronger than they ever have been, plus has increased my cardio capability. If you are looking for an ADVANCED Step tape - this is the one!!
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