How to Do the V Step Exercise

Series Summary

The term aerobics, meaning "with air", came from Dr. Kenneth Cooper, of the San Antonio Air Force Hospital. He designated it as the name for the system of exercises he employed to prevent coronary artery disease. It is appropriate nomenclature given that the exercises are designed to condition the lungs to more effectively use oxygen and to strengthen the cardiovascular system. For those who choose to use it, aerobics is an important part of fighting heart disease and obesity.

One way to get a great aerobics exercise is step. With step equipment and instruction, you can loose weight and feel great. Let our fitness expert, Alice Monsaert, show you how to do some step exercises. She shows you how to warm up, and how to begin step exercises. So, what are you waiting for? With free exercise videos, you have no excuse. Learn how to do step exercises today!

Video Transcript

"The next step is called a V step. If you remember, I said a lot of the steps in step have their own lingo. They also translate to what letters look like on the floor. We have the basics step. Now we're going to lengthen that step, make it more intense, by just taking our legs out a little bit wider to the edges of the bench. It's still a 4 count move, but it's called a V step. If you can see, I'm tracing a V on the floor. From your perspective again. We started with the basic step. Now, we're just going to take it wider, so we have V step. If I tap down and switch, that would be an alternating lead step of a V step. It starts to again, increase my intensity because I'm starting to use the space around the bench or wider of the bench. Then we'll start to move around the bench as well. Heels all the way up. You might hear it called an out, out, in, in with this sort of arm movement. It is a front approach. It is a basic step, but we lengthened the range of motion to increase the intensity."