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I love step workouts, so when its creator, Gin Miller, launched The Ramp earlier this year, I leapt at the chance to try it. Done on a unique incline device, Ramping is the first cardio exercise that extensively uses a backward movement. "The idea behind Ramping is to work your rear muscles," Miller says. "So it's primarily a pushing off of activity rather than a lifting onto one."

While Ramping's fresh, low-impact choreography is perfect for beginners, I was able to get a more intense, athletic workout on it, one that really forced my glutes, hips and hamstrings into action and jacked up the cardio. The color-coded areas helped me follow the choreography and ensure that my feet were in the proper places, and the quick-adjusting angle made doing lunges, crunches, push-ups and stretches like downward-facing dog on The Ramp more comfortable than they are on the floor.

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