Purchased this stage to vary my routine walk home, and you get two different stages: a stage flat and a step gradient. For me, this step is quite strong enough and wide, and the exchange of the steps is easy. The DVD that accompanies this stage was too hard for me at the time from the start I am not not (I prefer being with my Gin Miller intensify "Everybody Steps" DVD instead). Everything I expected in a Reebok product!