Review: Super Step

Super Step is a 60 min step routine from Seasun Zieger. It is made up of a 6 min warm up, a 41 min cardio portion, a 7 min core section, and a 4 min stretch.

The warm up consists of basic steps, l-steps, jacks on and off the step, knee ups, and a fun move where you straddle the step, turn to face the inside your step, tap on the step with one foot, then come back to face the back of your step. Combo 1 has moves such as turning squats, a v-slide (which was featured in Seasun's previous workout Stepping Up), a burpee, and my personal favorite move, a jog over with a shuffle rock. Combo 2 has a lot of turns, a giddy up, and some pivots and ball changes. For me, combo 2 has the most complex choreography. Combo 3 has some basic moves like mambos, jacks on the step, tap shuffles, but they are done with directional changes and pauses and pivots so they are never boring.

The music in this workout is pretty good. Some of the songs I really like, especially the song that plays the first time you string together combos 1 and 2. A lot of the music in this workout can also be heard in Amy Bento's Advanced Step Challenge 4.

Seasun seems to be having fun during this workout. She cues really well and I don't recall a time when she miscued. She did forget to mention a "shuffle box" once, and it was during a time when my back was to the TV, but I still managed to get the move so perhaps it wasn't a big deal that she didn't cue that move. A lot of the workout (especially combo 2) is dione with your back to the TV but Seasun cues in a way where you still end up in the correct place and on the correct foot.

I really, really like Seasun. I like that her workouts are challenging to the mind and the heart. They are complex but I still manage to get my heart rate up. You can tell that Seasun really likes what she does. And she is so creative and good at it! I love the way she says things twice (like "One more, one more," or "give me two, give me two"). She also seems to like music, which is always nice in an aerobics instructor.

The music in this one isn't as good as it is in this as it was in Stepping Up, but the choreography is fun, some of the music is pumping and motivating, and Seasun and her backgrounders are energetic and fun.

The abs segment is filled with lots and lots and lots of planks. I liked it. For me, plank work gets tougher the more I do it because after awhile, I don't have to concentrate on my wrists or quads or shoulders feeling fatigued. Those muscle groups strengthen and I'm left with having to totally focus on and use my core. I will keep at this routine and hopefully get better at mainting proper form.

Thumbs up - another fun one from Seasun!

Sweat factor: 6.5/10
Fun factor: 7.5/10