Your first step workout?

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Mar

Cathlete
Hi all - Thought it might be fun to know how everyone started with Step. I avoided it for years thinking I could never learn it. Honestly, I had no interest in it at all. I finally caved and started Gilad on the Beach. Took me a few times to get it and then I got bored. Graduated to Kelli Roberts Ultimate Step. Boy, did that challenge me. I got so frustrated with myself. I never thought I'd get it. I'd stop and start over and over again. Now I could do that workout with my eyes closed. However, Cathe's step still challenges my brain and coordination in a big way!!


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Hi Mar. I too avoided the step for years. My first workouts were Rhythmic Step and Step Blast. I didn't have a step at first so I learned them on the floor. Loved them both! Then I got a step and WOW what a difference! Now stepping is my favorite thing! I think I like the choreograpy from all the years of dance lessons that I took. So it's really fun for me. And to think I swore I would NEVER do Step. Never say never I guess! :7
Kali
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When I started working out, I thought step might bother my touchy knee, so I bought a "soft step" that came with a Denise Austin video. The step was a piece of crap, and moved if you happened to hit it with your foot, and I think it was worse for my knee than a regular step was.

I quickly got rid of the step and the video (the minute Denise Austin had us step off the side of the step and "wiggle," I knew I hated her!)
 
Hmmm, if memory serves, it was a Kathy Smith step tape. I can't remember the name of it, but I think it was her first, and was her only step tape for quite some time. I then got a Charlene Prickett step tape, and one of Gin Miller's (Reebok) step tapes. I played around with these instructors for a bit, and then one day finally came across reviews of Cathe's workouts on the videofitness website. In the years since then, I've primarily stuck to Cathe workouts, but have recently incorporate a number of Christie Taylor workouts to the mix.

Stepping is my favourite form of cardio exercise. I'm so glad I decided to give it a try.

Cheers,
Sandra
 
Buns of Steel 4 (not sure this is a step tape) & Jane Fonda Step Workout, and I still have them - but I never use them.

Linda:)
 
Gin Miller's Intense Moves! Talk about jumping into the deep end of the pool! My first Cathe cardio was the Hilo part of MIC. Thought I was gonna die! That was in January of 2000!
Just Do It! :)
 
Cathe's AllStep. Still a favorite. I did it for about 6 months, rotating with my treadmill and a Paula Abdul dance tape.
 
My first step tape was actually Low Max!! Unless you count what they did with the Firm angle box thing.

I went to the Y in the 90s and they had a class called "the body shop" where you did mostly weights but sometimes she had us do step, too, which is where I learned what on earth "around the world" is. I might have learned something else at the time, but the around the world is the only thing I remember, and thank goodness for that! That's the one you can't WATCH someone else do and do it at the same time! LOL

I took years of dance classes, so I really enjoy Cathe like someone said, because you do stuff besides stare at the TV with all her mambos, etc. This is so fun!!!
 
For me the moment the step was on sale at our local K-mart, the only store in town besides the gocesry store. My parents bought it for my b-day. I was about 13 at the time, and it came with a step workout by Kelly Robert's. I don't remember what the name of the workout, but it was tough I remember that. The workout got lost in one of the moves, but I've kept my step threw all these years, if you look on the under side of it, says patent pending, so it's a pretty old step. Then I ran into Kathy's Smith's step workout and actually really enjoyed learning how to use the step as an upper body/lower body and ab workout as well. Then I joined a gym where step was being taught and jazzerise and actually ended up taking over the step classes, and then started to advance step, and I finally ran into Cathe Friedrich, at a fitness confrence, well heard how great she was and went on a search, I found her Fit & Firm and her Home Step Workout and have been hooked ever since.

Kit
 
I started stepping with Charlene Prickett's 'It Figures' show, I used to tape them and had quite a collection then dove in and ordered one of her hour long step workouts called 'Benchmark', I loved it. Later that year I joined a gym and found an awesome instructor who crafted wonderfully fun and challenging step classes. About 13 years have passed since my first step workout and it is still my favourite way to get my cardio (and endorphin) fix:7 .

Take Care
Laurie
 
My first step tape was Jane Fonda's Step and Abs...wow, it took me forever to learn. :) I was such a slow learner and had to rewind it so many times..LOL.

Robin
 
My very first step workout was at the gym. My very first step tape was Kathy Smith's Basic Step. My very first Cathe step workout was PowerMax.

Pinky
 
My first step tape was IM#2, which was also my first Cathe tape. I was in awe from day #1 and I remember thinking I wish I had known about Cathe SSSOOOOO much sooner!

Tammy
 
All Step... it came in my studio step I bought from WalMart. I thought it was the craziest thing I'd ever seen when I first watched it.:+
 
My first step workout was at the gym; however, I believe that my first step video was Crunch - Fat Blaster: The Next Step. Since starting with Cathe, this video is now a piece of cake.
 
Way back in 1993, headed for divorce and desperately needing to get my very overweight body in shape, I bought a Reebok step and fell in love with Gin Miller's videos. Stayed mainly with Gin Miller until this past January when I found Cathe. Now 27 Cathe DVDs, a new club step, and 2 high steps later I am the fittest I have been since high school and still totally addicted to step. It takes many tries for my two left feet to get many of the routines but I have a blast doing it no matter what!:D

Sue
 
Going back several years I had tried step at a gym. I was AWFUL at it so I never purchased a step video for in-home use. I didn't try it again until I tried Cathe in December. I started with Basic Step, then did Body Fusion and then Power Max and the rest is history! :)
 
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