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Barlates 5 Best Exercise Series is a collection of mini workouts from Linda Wooldridge. Each workout focuses on a single muscle group, contains 5 exercises for that muscle group and each exercise is done for a full minute. You'd be surprised at how quickly 5 exercises can fry a muscle group. I used (and am still … Continue reading Barlates: 5 Best Exercises Series
Callanetics Extreme is a 70 minute bodyweight strength workout. I decided to try it mostly out of curiosity. Amazon kept recommending it to me and it got great reviews. The trainer that leads the workout is a woman named Lacey Kondi. I did find this to be different than any other workout I've done. It … Continue reading Callanetics Extreme
Full Body Barre Express is a very intense little cardio workout from Linda Wooldridge. Though it is 21 minutes long the actual "work" period is 16 minutes long. This is another workout that is available both on DVD and YouTube. I own the DVD and there are two other workouts included on the DVD, so that … Continue reading Barlates: Full Body Barre Express
***This review will be double posted (eventually). I purchased Linda's 5 Best Exercise Series DVD which contains 11 mini workouts. But some (or all?) of them are also available for free on YouTube. So, as I work through my DVD review, I will check to see if the individual workouts are also available on YouTube … Continue reading Barlates: 5 Best Butt Blasting Exercises
Legs w/ Weights & Barre is a Live workout I somehow missed. Not sure how--but thanks to a Cathe forum friend, I did not overlook it! This a great metabolic lower body workout. It is deceiving, too. I created my workout card in advance and was surprised that Cathe used 10 pound dumbbells for everything. … Continue reading Cathe Live: Legs w/ Weights & Barre
Circuit Works Plus Barre & Core is another fun, effective and excellent workout that is unique to Cathe Live. You get it all in this workout: cardio, barre, core and total body strength training. Now, I will say it isn't the most thorough strength training workout and, because of the brisk pace, you cannot lift … Continue reading Cathe Live: Circuit Works Plus Barre & Core
Long & Sculpted Legs really fried my legs. It seemed particularly appropriate after my last leg workout (Cathe Live Triset Legs) because this workout fries your lower body in a completely different way. No dumbbells, barbell or step are used in Long & Sculpted Legs. Just a sliding device (I used Slide N Glide disks), … Continue reading Cathe Live: Long & Sculpted Legs
I am now a big fan of Tracey Mallett. After doing the fabulous F.I.T. and The Booty Barre: Total New Body, she is filling up my wishlist. Her workouts are hard, effective and she brings such a warm and personable presence to her workouts. She is encouraging and likable and I just love doing workouts … Continue reading Bikini Body: Bootylicious
Cardio Barre is another 10 minute workout from Popsugar. The full title of this workout is Cardio Barre Workout for the Best Full-Body Burn Ever--which is a totally inaccurate title. I was expecting much more from this workout than what it delivered. It is not full body and it did not give me any cardio. … Continue reading Popsugar: Cardio Barre
I had never heard of PopPhysique before but Popsugar/Anna Renderer had PopPhysique trainer Sam Harper as a guest trainer and I really enjoyed her 10 minute Leg & Butt workout, so I looked PopPhysique up on Amazon. There were two workouts with "butt" in the title that were cheap if purchased used. The covers of … Continue reading PopPhysique: Original Butt