Sue's Low Impact #1 - medium difficulty, good for subbing

Hi folks

I don't usually teach low impact. I just started teaching at a new gym with lots of LI classes though, and I now seem to end up subbing LI a lot. I've developed these combinations for when I sub ' these seem to have enough interest to keep folks from getting bored, while still being fairly easy to teach with a class full of folks who don't know me very well...

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions ' just include 'turnstep' somewhere in the subject line.

- Sue

First combo (128 counts - changes lead)

• 1-32: 6 Step-touch right,left,right,left,right,left moving back, double step-touch right-right, 6 step-touch left,right,left,right,left,right moving up, double step-touch left-left
• 33-64: Double grapevine right-right (two grapevines to the right, put a little hop in at the end of the first one to be able to keep going to the right for the second one), 3 x 'hourglass' left,left,left
• 65-96: Step out with left foot and two-knee repeater with right knee (4 counts), right leg (which is up on count 4) crosses over left leg to start a series of 3 mambo-cha-cha-cha right,left,right (12 counts), 4 x forward lunge (forward lunge = alternating forward lunges, much as you might do with weights (16 counts) left,right,left,right
• 97-128: Walk/jog 32 counts around the room in a big circle to the left, starting with a left lead

'Hourglass' = one V-step forward and one V-step backwards (i.e. still facing front ' not turning to the back ' makes a sort of hourglass shape)

Second Combo.

• 1 - 32: 3 x (grapevine + step-touch) right, left, right; 4 X-step-curl left, right, left, right
• 33 - 64: 4 x V-steps left' one each facing left/west wall, then back wall, right/east wall, and front
• 65 - 96: 4 x (4 lunges back in a single, single, double rhythm)
• 97 - 128: March backward 8 counts, left,right; march wide in place 8 counts, march forward 8 counts, 4 X-step-touch left,right,left,right (or 'diamond' left)

'Diamond left' = one step-touch to NW corner (facing NE corner), one step-touch to NE corner (facing NW corner), one step-touch to SE corner (facing SW corner), one step-touch to SW corner (facing SE corner)

Heartrate combo

Simple moves, meant to get heartrate up a bit, can add layers:

Simplest layer (32 counts)

• 4 X Knees right,left,right,left
• 2 X Double knees right,left
• 4 X Curls right,left,right,left
• 2 X Double curls

First layer (still 32 counts)
Add motion to the moves - move up on the 4 knees, in place on the double knees, move back on the curls, in place on the double curls

Second layer (still 32 counts)

• Add arms to the 4 x knees: right arm up with right knee and leave it up, left arm up with left knee and leave it up, pull arms down and up twice with the third and fourth knees
• Make the double knees into knee-kicks
• Turn 360 degrees (over your right shoulder) as you move back with the curls
• Turn the double curls into double curl cross-backs (i.e. when curling right, count 1 is right foot curl, count 2 is right foot crossing over and tapping back behind you to your left, count 3 is right foot curl again, and count 4 is right foot back down on ground with weight on it)

Third layer (4 x 32 counts)
Add more direction - face front, side (east), back, and side (west) by turning the curls either 90 degrees to the right each time, or (more advanced) turning the curls 360 + 90 degrees to the right (i.e. all the way around once PLUS 90 degrees more)

When I'm subbing low impact I usually teach this as combo 1, then the 'heartrate' block, then combo 2. Sometimes though, I do put combos 1 and 2 together into one big long combo by changing counts 1-32 of the second combo to 2 x (1 grapevine + 2 step-touch + 4 step curls) so the second combo doesn't change lead, but the two combos together do change lead.

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