Ballet Fitness By Jennee: Ballet Blast - Thoughts

Ballet Fitness by Jennee:  Ballet Blast is probably going to be my favorite ballet DVD workout that I have.  There is not a barre or chair but Jennee tells you that you can get a chair if you require more stability.  However, Jennee would prefer you to use your own balance.

The workout clocks in at 50 minutes and includes several sections that you can select on their own.  In fact the DVD offers the following options:

Play All

Play Workout Only

Warm up

Plié’ blast

Cardio blast

Ballet sculpt

Ab blast

Cool down

Extras

In the ballet sculpt and ab blast sections Jennee does use a set of hand weights and a mat is use in the ab and cool down segments.  Along with Jennee there are two other cast members and all cast members work out with bare feet.

Jennee offers form tips as she takes you through various exercises; showing you the wrong way and telling you not to do it.  She also offers various modifications showing you an easier way to do an exercise.

Each move is performed to the beat of the music and I like the music selection a lot.  It has drama.  

The plié sections primarily featured, well plié’s, lots of them done to various tempos .  The cardio blast section primarily features kicks.  There is a set of ballet burpees that appear in this section too.  I chose to do the modification that Jennee showed.  Your arms get quite a workout in these two segments because you are holding them isometric position quite a bit.

Ballet sculpt is primarily upper body, however you are holding the grande plié or doing a plié in this section so your legs are still getting quite a workout.

The extras segment includes a section on ballet fundamentals in which Jennee shows you still pictures of first position, fifth position, battemant, releve, passe, tendu and the plie.

I like Jennee as an instructor.   She does have a very serious disposition, very no-nonsense. 

I think what I like most about the workout is how everything is set to the music. It felt like I was in a real dance class.  The set looks to be the corner of a real dance studio with large windows allowing for a lot of natural light to come through.

4 & 1/4 stars