[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jul-22-01 AT 12:44PM (Est)[/font][p]Hi! I hope you are feeling great about your committment to getting and staying healthy!
I wanted to mention videofitness.com. I'm not sure if you are familiar with that website--it has a huge amount of information on fitness videos, and a great group of people. There are check-ins there for every level of fitness, which could give you ideas for tapes that may be of interest to you. There is a whole list of different instructors, and reviews by regular people!
I'm a little concerned that if you try to tackle Cathe first, you may get frustrated or overwhelmed. I would hate to see that happen, because her tapes are wonderful. I know that if I had started out with her stuff, I would have felt very overwhelmed! Now, you CAN modify Cathe's stuff, but I think you might be better off starting with some more basic step tapes, especially if you have never done step before. Please checkout videofitness.com!
Some tapes I really liked when I was just starting out included anything by Kathy Smith and most of the Reebok tapes. You'll find comments on these and so many others.
As for The Wedding tape--the choreography in this tape is not too complex, but the intensity is high! I often find that doing a step video on the floor rather than on a step can help you get the moves down without sending your heart into overdrive--that would be a good modification to use if you end up getting this video. The strength portion might be just right for you...it has some upper body weight work--biceps, triceps, shoulders, back, and chest (lots of pushps!), and lunges and floor work for the lower body. Cathe uses 5 lb. weights in this tape.
Anyway, glad to have you around, and good luck!
Wendy
PS some other tapes I liked as a beginner/intermediate were Reebok circuit challenge with Gin Miller, and another by Gin called Aerostep. Although people are ripping her apart over on another thread (poor Gin!), I really liked these tapes, and you can grow with them!