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The Method - Step Up to Dance |  | Actor: Lisa Wheeler
Studio: Parade Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 128,357
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PPID56286D
ISBN: 0739604775
UPC: 071083562860
EAN: 9780739604779
ASIN: B00008XS1I
Release Date: April 29, 2003
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Product Description
Combines cardio step moves inspired by jazz, ballet and modern dance, with the precision toning techniques of yoga and of the work of Joseph H. Pilates.
Genre: Exercise/Fitness
Rating: NR
Release Date: 22-APR-2003
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com
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
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 Not for the timid June 4, 2003
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful workout that utilizes alot 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!
For intermed-advanced step aerobics lovers... May 3, 2004
Dolcevita326 (Jacksonville, FL United States)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
...who are looking for a challenging step DVD, you've found it! I love step aerobics & am trying to build my collection of home workout DVDs. While I love Reebok The Video, I wanted something with more choreography and this DVD delivered! I'm pretty coordinated and when I used to take step classes, I could easily keep up with instructors who liked to mix up moves rather than stick to basic ones. However, in all my years stepping, I've never seen instructors try the creative combos found in this DVD - probably b/c everyone, myself included, would've just stood and stared, which was my initial reaction when I tried this DVD today! However, I liked Lisa Wheeler's cueing, her voice (unlike Denise you know who!), and the combos so much I decided to concentrate and learn the steps this first time. I won't lie to you, it took me well over an hour just to get through the aerobics routine, b/c I kept having to rewind and redo the combos (and despite all the pausing in my cardio routine, just by relearning the combos over and over, I broke a major sweat!). I really hate to build, build, then repeat the same steps, so I really loved the structure of this DVD. You get to do 3 amazing combos, each punctuated by quick but effective thigh/glutes moves, then at the end you get to put all 3 combos together. I love this format for it makes the time fly and I was having so much fun focusing on the steps that I didn't have time to focus on the burn :) After the aerobics segment, there's a challenging ab workout that uses Pilates principles and really works your core. This is one DVD that I know I will not get bored with.
Wonderful Workout! March 12, 2003
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This tape is absolutely fabulous! It does aerobic/step work first with some interval leg toning and then it launches into the best part. The abdominals. They are pilates based and extremely effective. They work very well if you continue to hold your abs in throughout. The plank position has been one of my favorites for toning the abs as well as the arms and back and it's nice to see it on this tape. The yoga-type stretching at the end is great also. The step portion is fun and different, which makes it much more likely to get used at my house. The stomach section is intense and effective, if done properly and the Yoga stretches really calm the body and mind which is great after all of that work. Definitely worth it to do this tape!
Different & difficult? you bet! It's a challenge! January 4, 2003
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
This step tape is a fantastic combination of Method choreography, method music (live percussion band) and the intensity of step workout. After trying and owning a number of step aerobic videos, I have to say this was a fresh breath of air. The workout is an interval training which provides alternating aerobic sessions and strength sessions. It wasn't easy to nail down the moves and you might need to practise the tape several times before you can fully enjoy the workout. But I welcome this difficulty as a challenge - I can see myself getting better and enjoying more as I progress. If you don't own a step, please do not get discouraged. A lot of step tapes including this one could be done WITHOUT the equipment. No Method toning bar? No problem. I use broomsticks. Actually Jennifer Kries once mentioned in one of her tapes that you can use mopstick or broomstick instead of Method toning bar. I think the choreograhy is complex enough to enjoy the whole workout on the floor. Also I'd like to mention that Lisa Wheeler is one heck of an instructor. She truly is a master instructor. Very encouraging, nice cueing, motivating and not annoying at all. I really liked her in Dance to Fitness video and she didn't let me down in this one. Give it a try and just stick with it until you can move along. You won't regret anything.
I love this one April 29, 2006
C. Martin (Georgia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really enjoy The Method and this one is one of my favorites. I appreciate a good challenge, and you will certainly get that in this video. I like any video that incorporates cardio with toning and stretching. You get all three in this one. I am not sure I understand the confusion other reviewers experienced about this being a step video. If the title didn't give it away, the fact that the instructor is on the cover standing on a step and the description on the back of the video should have!
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