Shapely Girl: Let’s Get Stepping with Debra Mazda
November 12th, 2009
Debra Mazda and her ShapelyGirl team are back with Let s Get Stepping, a step-cardio workout for beginners. This DVD contains a workout routine that burns calories, increases energy & flexibility with fun, safe, and easy-to-learn steps. The DVD also contains a bonus Toning Track and detailed Step tutorial. Debra Mazda is the creator of the ShapelyGirl DVD series, a fitness program designed for women of all sizes. It was exercise that helped Debra re-invent herself more than 20 years ago when she went from a size 26 to a 12. Now she wants to inspire you to believe in yourself with her philosophy: Fitness Comes in Many Sizes! Debra Mazda, M. Ed. is an Exercise Physiologist and Wellness Coach with over 2 decades i… More >>
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Shapely Girl: Let’s Get Stepping with Debra Mazda
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I received two of Debra’s dvds. The Beginner Step Cardio is easy to follow and Debra is there to coach and motivate you every “step” of the way! I would definitely recommend this dvd and know that you too will feel like Debra is your own personal coach! It’s a great workout without impossible fancy footwork so know that you will actually look forward to doing it over and over. Go for it!!
Rating: 5 / 5
Fitness DVDs created and hosted by exercise physiologist Debra Mazda prove that women of all shapes and sizes can enjoy the benefits of a good workout. Mazda once weighed over three hundred pounds; deciding that diets were not the answer, she devised a fitness regimen and succeeded in losing one hundred forty pounds. She remains curvaceously shapely (with noticeably more meat on her bones than a rail-thin Hollywood model), yet immensely improved and healthy, and her workout DVDs are sure to appeal to viewers of all backgrounds and body sizes. In “Let’s Get Stepping! Beginner Step-Cardio” (82 min.) viewers are introduced into a step-cardio workout suitable for beginners, complete with a toning bonus track and step tutorial. The bonus special feature “Debra Mazda’s Circle Time” is all about working out when one is a plus-sized woman. An excellent DVD for anyone, female or male, interested in beginning a fitness regimen – especially those who are new to regular physical workouts and need a user-friendly start.
Rating: 5 / 5
WOW! It is about time that someone made fitness for ALL women! I am so impressed and so moved to see Curvy and Shapely women working out and getting both fit and healthy! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE how Debra emphasizes that Fitness and Health comes in all shapes and sizes! This woman not only talks the talk but walks the walk! I am so glad that us average sized (size 12 & 14) as well as Plus-Sized women have safe, effective, and motivating fitness DVDs that are quality and fun to use! It is a horrible myth that one cannot be healthy or fit if you are “over weight” or “over sized”. Definitely not true!
This DVD offers basic choreography at a moderate pace. There are several modifications shown whether it be different step heights or no arm movements. I have only done Cathe Friedrich step in the past from both her beginner thru advanced titles and have to say that Cathe has now taken a backseat to Debra with regards to Step. No this is not as intense as Cathe, but that’s the point! It’s non-itimidating, motivating, and fairly easy on the joints; unlike Cathe. I have knee issues as well as joint problems with 1 hip and at age 27, I can’t afford to beat my body up for the sheer purpose of vanity, in hopes of being “smaller one day”. Healthy and fit are so much more important than size and that message is really hammered home with Debra. We don’t have to suffer along in boring or long workouts with Cathe, Amy Bento, Jillian, ect to look and feel great! Fitness can be fun and now IS! There’s a revolution going on within the fitness and health industry and Debra is helping to lead the way! I am so proud of myself and my size, it’s about time that someone indulges us “Shapely Girls” with appropriate, beneficial, fun, safe, and effective fitness! I own all 4 Shapely Workouts and look forward to Debra releasing more! Get this DVD, it is well worth the money! The movements are non-complicated, easy on the body, the music is fab, and EVERY women big or small can do it! Fitness no longer has to kill you to be effective, Thank God and Thank you Debra!
I also want to add that she uses Top 40 music and no two songs are repeated amongst her 4 DVDs. If you are an Advanced Exreciser you would find this workout great for a light to mderate workout, something to compensate for more demanding cardio routines like Cathe Friedrich or Amy Bento. If you are a faithful Leslie Sansone fan, tis one is more intense than any Leslie DVD IMHO, including her 5 Mile Walks. You can get a moderate, yet energizing workout with no risers, but add 1-2 sets of risers and be prepared for a step sweatfest! I personally am so tired of Leslie’s same boring workouts, with the same boring movements, with little to no “umph”. Debra’s DVDs are amazing and I recommend this and the other 3 whole-heartedly to anyone! I love her and her workouts. I am praying that Debra releases another Step workout!!
Rating: 5 / 5
What a great step workout! The choreography is deceptively simple, but really gets your heartrate up – easy footwork makes it a breeze to follow. Debra adds some fun arm/leg combos – and her cuing is excellent. The four women stepping with her show various easy/hard modifications (for example, lowest step height, no arms, highest step height, etc.). I’ve been stepping a while, and I found it very easy to add challenge by just exaggerating the movements or adding some plyo (leaping) where needed. A short but very effective toning section at the end is also excellent. I recommend this DVD very highly!
Rating: 5 / 5
Debra’s group of “shapely girls” certainly does provide motivation and inspiration. I am a shapely girl myself and it can be discouraging to see a group of perfect hardbodies working out and telling me that I can do it, too. The workout itself is quite intense for someone of my fitness level. I am in my 50s and quite overweight. I have done mostly low-impact aerobics and walking in recent years, so the intensity of the step added a challenge for me. Debra herself is very much a regular person; it’s like listening to your Aunt Sally from Bayonne. But she understands how the body works and what it needs to get fit. The only things that I found disconcerting were that she frequently seems very out of breath, and her cuing is sometimes a little off. She will say one thing and do another. On one combo, it seemed to me that she was doing ham curls to the left and kicks to the right, all the while telling you to do ham curls. It got a tad confusing. But all in all, it is certainly worth doing this workout if you are not a veteran stepper. The toning segment that follows was good as well, but she does the last part of it at a quick pace that got my heart rate up again, and provided no cool down afterwards. I just walked in place until my heart rate returned to normal, but it seemed awkward to me.
Rating: 4 / 5