Tricky footwork

[jdbmga]

Can you please list the cardio workouts from easiest to trickiest footwork. I know the website rates them from easiest to hardest as far as intensity but I was wondering about footwork. I want to start out slow and go from easiest, leaving the tricky ones for last. LOL

Thanks

 

[amyg]

One thing to remember is that they ALL seem tricky at the beginning! The workouts with shorter premixes help a lot- some of them take a few times to learn. I'll occasionally do one shorter segment a few times in one workout to get me to the time I want- but learning piece by piece is I think the only way to go.

Personally, I started with Low Max in April 2005. I had taken 2 step classes in my life at a gym, so when she said "A-step" and "around the world" I was lucky to have flashbacks to what that actually was!! I did the Low Max premixes a few times, rewinding and starting over just to see what she was doing!

I still do that with some of them. KPC is pretty nice, though, since you're almost always facing front so you can see what she's doing!!

Hope you get a more useful answer from someone else!

 

[jdbmga]

Amy, thank you for your response. It WAS useful. I know that the more you practice something the better you get, so I know that in time I would get most if not all of the steps. I just don't want to get frustrated with the real tricky choreography and not get a good enough workout b/c I'm just standing there staring at the TV LOL

I have done part of the 1st premix on Low Max after other workouts but I don't have a club step yet (it's on it's way) so I think that has made it harder. I can't wait to get my club step!

Thanks for the tip about KPC. That's what I'm looking for. Tips like that and like RS is the most choreographed, so I know to stay away from that one for awhile.

 

[amyg]

I think it also helps to know she uses the same terms in all her workouts to describe the same moves. A ricochet is always called a ricochet, etc. This means, in some ways, they get a little easier the more you have and do!

As for pausing, rewinding, and watching rather than working out, that is my secret to "success" with IMax 3!!! LOL I find the harder the workout, the more "difficult" the choreography becomes...

 

[red_mct]

Well, that's a tough call, but the earlier step workouts are easier to learn because Cathe's style used to be different; she used to spend more time on the teaching portion of the workout than she does now. I swear I do not get money for recommending this, but I think Cardio Hits is the best place you can start... or with the Basic Step/Body Fusion workout. That one REALLY breaks the steps down. After a while, it does get easier!

Good luck!
Marie

 

[amybajamy]

Here is the order of the workouts that I do:

Basic Step + Body Fusion
Low Impact Step
Cardio with Weights
Rythmic Step
Step Blast

Amy