Jennifer Galardi Ballet Body - Thoughts

Ballet Body is a 65 minute workout by Jennifer Galardi.  In this workout Jennifer takes you through 5 distinct segments that contain ballet, pilates and yoga exercises.

The DVD menu offers the following options:
Play Entire Workout
Choose Your Workout

In Choose Your Workout, you have the option of selecting to do the Warm Up. Strength, Balance and Length, Floor Bare, and finally Stretch.

The Warm up clocks in at 12:41 and is really more than a warm up. The warm up includes a dance conditioning sequences traveling plie series. I love the music used in the warm up.

The Strength segment clocks in at around 13:06.  This part of the workout uses a set of weights to work the upper body. The strength segment also includes plies, releves, standing abs, curtsy squats and roll downs. I did not care for the music in this segment but the exercises were fine.

Balance and Length contain standing exercises that include a balance element. Jennifer also includes a yoga sequence. Downward dawg, triceps push ups, cat cow, and vinyasa are some of the exercises included in the yoga sequence. Nice music in this segment.  Run time for Balance and Length is 13:44.

Floor  Barre clocks in at 11:13 and this was one of my favorite segments of the workout. From the seated position, Jennifer takes you through a series of  floor based barre-style moves.  There is a lying side series as well as a seated straddle series.

The stretch segments comes in at around 12 and half minutes and it is floor based.  Each stretch is held for an extended period giving you plenty of time to work through each stretch. In this stretch segment, Jennifer stretches the lower body, the upper body and she ends with meditation.

Along with Jennifer, there are two other cast participants.  One participant does show modifications.
I really like this workout. It is a long workout if you do the entire workout. Next time I do it, I will pick and choose segments.

Ballet Body - 4 stars

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