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Target 15: Squats & Raises is an excellent little mini workout from Linda @ Barlates. The title means you are doing 15 exercises to "target" a specific area. You are also doing 15 sixty second intervals with no rest/recovery periods, so the workout is 15 minutes. I really enjoyed this workout. There are no complicated … Continue reading Barlates: Target 15/Squats & Raises
Torch & Tone: Slide is another lower body and core workout from Linda @ Barlates. It is primarily metabolic lower body work, but there is a lot of plank work which works your core hard. I found this a very tough workout--tougher than I expected it to be. Yesterday was Black Friday and my husband … Continue reading Barlates: Torch & Tone/Slide
Functional is another excellent workout in Linda @ Barlates Metabolic Training Series. All of the workouts in this series hit the lower body hard and this one is no exception. This workout conditions many other muscle groups, too--biceps, triceps, back, shoulders and core. I say "conditioned" because it is more high rep/low weight work, so … Continue reading Barlates: Metabolic Training/Functional
Torch & Tone: Cardio Sculpt is a kind of unusual workout. Maybe not for Linda @ Barlates, since she does put together some unusual workouts, but I found it rather unusual. It is effective tho. No doubt about that. I had muscle burn out multiple times. This is one of Linda's longer workouts, clocking in … Continue reading Barlates: Torch & Tone/Cardio Sculpt
Metabolic Training: Circuit is another tough workout from Linda @ Barlates that works your lower body hard. She works your biceps, back and triceps, too, and gives you cardio bursts. There are no complicated or difficult to perform moves, but it is an intense and metabolic workout. I was working hard during this workout and … Continue reading Barlates: Metabolic Training/Circuit
Torch & Tone: Weights is an intense workout from Linda @ Barlates. I was working hard to get through this workout. It is a lower body workout with some core work at the end. And it was killer! I was in my peak heart rate at times. This is a high rep workout that moves … Continue reading Barlates: Torch & Tone/Weights
Metabolic Training: Box Sculpt is a tough workout from Linda @ Barlates! And my glutes are still very sore from her Metabolic Training: Cardio Sculpt! This workout hits them again. This is a cardio + strength workout but, just like Cardio Sculpt, it does not hit every muscle group--so it's not a total body workout. … Continue reading Barlates: Metabolic Training/Box Sculpt
/Metabolic Training: Cardio Sculpt is cardio + strength lower body focused workout from Linda @ Barlates. You do get some upper body conditioning but it is using very light weights and combined with the low impact cardio. This workout really burned my hamstrings and glutes out. Linda starts with a long low impact cardio warm … Continue reading Barlates: Metabolic Training/Cardio Sculpt
I am 5 days post surgery and I have started exercising again. I have the usual limitations--no weights/resistance, no impact and no plank based moves. So I have to be creative to get an effective workout. This morning I did Cathe's Low Impact Step Lower Body Blast premix and finished the workout off with this … Continue reading Barlates: Target 15/Standing Abs
Torch & Tone: Box is a fun little cardio kickboxing workout from Linda @ Barlates. I actually purchased her Torch & Tone Series and her Metabolic Training Series DVDs and had planned to do all of the workouts on both DVDs this month. Then I discovered Heather Robertson and all of that was put on … Continue reading Barlates: Torch & Tone/Box