We have an orthopaedic surgeon to thank for Step. Step creator Gin Miller was a competitive gymnast and bodybuilder in her younger years and through a knee injury, a trainer at Georgia Tech in the US advised her on knee rehab. Part of his exercise programming was to get Gin to walk up and down on a milk crate, referring to it as “poor-man’s physical therapy”. It was a simple action that inspired a fitness workout craze that is still going strong almost 30 years later. Gin is quoted as saying that her initial light-bulb moment involved taking the Harvard Step Test and putting it to music. At the time, ‘aerobics’ was the only real fitness modality out there and there was a general demand for something different. Originally billed as “the workout with muscle”, step training was designed with the average consumer in mind. It had programming and movements that were aimed at both males and females with simple steps and often a small set of hand weights for a combined upper body workout. Bizarrely, Gin thought step would only go for a couple of years before dying out. Much to her surprise, the workout craze took the fitness industry by storm and the concept was further elevated when Reebok expressed an interest in creating an adjustable step for consumers and the fitness industry. The rest, as they say, is history.
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 13:52:57 +0000
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