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Baladea Calm is a 24 minute meditation workout. For almost the whole 24 minutes, you are lying supine listening to Holly guide you through the meditation that is suppose to motivate and destress you.  This workout is for your mind. Towards the end of the workout, you return to the sitting position. I like the this workout but would have liked it to be shorter or maybe have the option to do one of two 12 minute workouts and then "play all" for 24 minutes. 3 & 3/4 stars

Baladea Flow blends tai chi and chi gong. You are finding your own way of moving while following Holly and crew as they more through a series of moves. The first part of the workout is performed standing. The workout starts out fairly stationary as your feet are grounded and you are moving your shoulders, arms and hips. Holly starts building combinations by introducing moves one by one. She then later combines the moves to a flowing combination. The second part of the workout is floor base and it follows a similar pattern as the standing in that Holly has you go through a series of moves that she later combines to create a flowing combination that you move through for several reps for a ground/floor combo. I enjoyed the stretching part of the workout. While the workout is called flow and parts of it contain flowing type moves, I didn’t think it really “flowed” that well. Seem to start and stop quite a bit, there was a lack of transition that created an abrupt feeling about the worko...

Baladea Slim is a 40 minute cardio based workout. Holly leads you through two combinations that she combines at the end for one big combination. The moves are easy to follow. Holly teaches in a layered pattern. You do a move for a few reps before she adds on. There is an energy march that is your transition move. First sequence - Hop taps, side step, jumping jacks, twist with arm punch, quick jog with arm circle, Second sequence – jump rope, scissor jump, rockette, quick jog, step heel lift, squat, side kick, This workout was okay. A nice way to quick the heart rate up with simple moves. I thought it was slightly repetitive. I started to bored with the moves. There are water breaks throughout the workout.  The workout concludes with a 3 and ½ minute cool down. This workout was filmed indoors - looks like a living room or great room. 3 stars

Baladea Yoga is a 45 minute workout. Like the Fusion workout, this workout also has an outdoor setting. The workouts starts with stretching, (runner stretch, plank, downward dog) and then goes into moving postures type exercises for the main workout. Holly starts building yoga combos or her version of the sun salutation by layering yoga poses.  The sun salutation (sals) series felt very long to me.  It starts off slow because Holly is holding moves for several breaths, not to mention you are repeating the move usually 2 to 4 reps before adding on. Mountain pose, forward bend, lunge back, plank, down dog, up dog, high lunge, warrior two, extended side angle are some of your sun sal moves. There was a standing posture series and this was a nice break from the sun sals. The standing sequence included tree pose, dancer pose, and standing straddle stretch. There was also a floor based stretch that included pigeon, child pose, seated v stretch and thread the needle. The w...

Baladea Fusion is a 47 min cardio yoga workout.  This workout uses a mat and the resistance tubing.  Yoga blocks are optional. The workout is performed from a variety of positions; lying,kneeling and standing. You start off on the floor and progress to standing exercises.   You are doing quite a few reps of the yoga poses and this is where the cardio comes in.  You also get a good stretch because you are holding certain poses as your transition into them or come out of them. The band is only used in the last part of the workout during the ab segment and only briefly to help you do a full sit ups.  The workout concludes with a floor based cool down. The Fusion workout was filmed outside and it has a pool side setting. The music was pretty up beat.  Holly gives you water breaks throughout. I like this workout. I think it is my favorite of the bunch. 4 & 1/4 stars

Baladea Boost is a high intensity interval training workout.  The workout is characterized by 40 second boost intervals, recovery transition moves, and  core moves, The workout starts off with a long warm up or multi-part warm up that  ended up being about 10 minutes long. The transition and recovery moves consist of step tap, energy march, low kicks and step knees. Between the boost and cross core moves are the transition recovery move. The boost/cross core move breaks down as follows: Boost 1 – Run in place with arm presses Boost 2 – Jumping Jacks Boost 3 – High Knee Runs Boost 4 – Jumping Spit Jumps Cross Core 1 – Plank Jacks Boost 5 – Alternating Push Kicks Cross Core 2 – Bridge Leg Switch Boost 6 – High Jump Cross Core 3 – Plank Tap overs Boost 7 – Squat Jump 180 Turn Cross Core 4 – Side Lying Plank dips lifts Boost 8 – Skater Jumps Cross Core 5 – Plank Knee Elbow Taps Boost 9 – Three Pulse Squat High Jump Cross Core 6 – Plank Hops Forward ...

Baladea Power is a 50 minute workout that was design to build muscle. The workouts contains partner exercises that  you can do with a buddy. The workout uses a band with handles on the end and a mat. The workout contains two blocks. Each block includes two circuits. One circuit is strength based and one is time based. Each circuit contains five exercises that are performed once for the strength circuit and one for endurance circuit.  In the strength circuit you are doing 10 to 15 reps. In the endurance circuit you are doing as many reps as you can in either 30 or 60 seconds. The exercises in block one are: 1.       Power Squats 2.       Power Posture – double arm row 3.       Shoulder shaper – Overhead press 4.       Butt Lift 5.       Awesome arms – biceps curl The exercises in block two are : 1.     ...

Baladea is a fitness and wellness system created by Holly Perkins who is a celebrity trainer.  The system comes with a 36 page lifestyle guide, a 97 page nutrition guide, a progress schedule that features three rotations, and a DVD booklet that includes 8 DVDs.    Each of the guides are filled with colorful pictures and are of very good quality. One DVD serves as a introduction to the system and the other DVDs contains the seven workouts that make up the Baladea System. The introduction DVD is ten minutes long and is called "Hello". Each of of the other DVDs (I will review in later blog post) comes with the option to "play" or "play without music" Each of the workouts also contain a workout countdown timer and a segment timer.  Sometimes the segment timer is counting down the time and sometimes it is counting down reps. The workouts also have subtitles that briefly appear to tell you what you are doing. Along with Holly, there are three other cast...