This dance-filled, intermediate/advanced cardio-step 60-minute video draws moves from jazz dance, ballet, and modern dance as well as traditional step aerobics to give you a workout rich in choreography challenges. Leader Lisa Wheeler instructs superbly--she has you follow her assistants while she shows you a change before inviting you to do it with her. Even so, choreography changes and layering (adding more moves and variations onto the basic choreography you've learned) happen so quickly that you may find yourself stopping the video as you learn it. The good news is that you won't get bored later on. Strength and balance intervals from yoga and Pilates interrupt the cardio for a well-rounded and energetic workout performed to live drumming. At the end of the long cardio workout, Wheeler puts all the combinations together for a routine of over 20 different moves. After that, you drop to the mat for a 10-minute, Pilates-based abdominal segment--done so slowly that you can't cheat--then a yoga sequence for flexibility. --Joan Price
STEP UP TO DANCE. Step up to a new dimension in precision toning and fat burning efficiency. Step Up To Dance combines cardio step up moves inspired by jazz, ballet and modern dance, with the precision toning techniques of Yoga and the work of Joseph H. Pilates. Step Up To Dance is the cardiovascular and toning workout you've been waiting for! Step Up To Dance is an intermediate level fat burning workout. It is preformed to live percussion music and features a cast of dance and fitness professionals led by master instructor, Lisa Wheeler.
5.0 out of 5 stars Not for the timid
By A Customer
This is a wonderful workout that utilizes a lot of dance terminology and technique. If you have no dance experience you should possibly look into a basics tape to do with this as it will maximize your workout. While the tape uses a step and balance bar, it can be done just as a floor routine for the step portions and with a chair, (or if you have good dancer control with arms in 2nd position) for the balance bar sections. Focus on mimicking the moves as closely as possible once you get the routine and this tape will always give you a great workout! I am a personal trainer/actress who works out 6 days a week and this is one of the only videos I've found that remains challenging after months have elapsed. It's well worth committing too and the abs section is very well done!!! Love it!
