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Barre Fitness with Jessica Smith contains three 20-minute barre theme workouts. The DVD menu Cardio Ballet Barre Burn Floor Barre Play All Jessica is the only cast member.  There is an outdoor setting for each of the workout.  All the sessions are set to up tempo music. In Cardio Ballet , Jessica uses ballerina movements to get the heart rate up. There is a lot of pulsing and jumping.  Jessica does show various intensity levels throughout the workout so that you can work at your own intensity level. Barre Burn is your toning barre workout. In this workout, Jessica uses a chair and a pair of light hand weights.  This is a circuit style workout in that you perform a series of moves back to back; repeat and then move on to another series of exercises which you perform back to back. Floor Burn uses a mat and a ball. If you don't have a ball, you can use a pillow.  Jessica performs a series of move for the abs, low back, arms, and legs.  C...

Sleek Ballet Bootcamp has three 20-minute workouts plus a warm up and cool down. The warm up and cool down are the same segments that appear in the Barre Technique workout. All the workouts are narrated/voice over. The voice over is done very well and the cuing is excellent. DVD Menu Introduction Tutorial Warm Up Ballet Bootcamp 1 Ballet Bootcamp 2 Ballet Bootcamp 3 Cool down Credits Ballet Bootcamp 1 is led by Flik Swan.  There is a standing part and floor part.  Some of the exercises in this workout are: Plie Tendu Series, Chasses, Plies, & Lunges, Port de bras, plank, parallel plies. Floor work include lying plies, lying leg walks, leg lifts and side planks. Ballet Bootcamp 2 is led by Victoria Marr and Flik Swann. This workout also includes a standing segment and a floor segment. In the standing segment there is an intense arm sequence.  Also in the standing section there is a lengthy cardio arabesque knee pull series.  For the floor segmen...

Sleek Technique Sleek Barre Technique is a a ballet barre style workout led by Victoria Marr and Flik Swan. The DVD Menu Introduction Tutorial Warm Up Ballet Barre 1 Ballet Barre 2 Ballet Barre 3 Cool Down Credits So before we begin, I will just say these types of workouts are always challenging for me and this barre workout was no different. I like that the DVD was broken down in such a way that you could digest the material in smaller segments. There are three barre sessions on this DVD plus a warm up and a cool down. I added the warm up and cool down to each ballet barre class and did the workouts as three separate classes over the course of the week. The warm up features both Victoria and Flik but only Victoria is in the cool down segment. With warm up and cool down, each of the workouts clocked in just above 30 minutes in length.  All three ballet barre segment use a portable ballet barre, but they tell you that you can use a chair if you do not have one. Ba...

June 2020 Monthly Rotation Combination of Barre/Ballet and Dance. Dance will be from Core Rhythm series. Barre will be from Sleek Technique, Jessica Smith, Jazzercise, Karen Voight and Eric Zimmer. 3 miles will be a walk/run on the treadmill.