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Tracy Anderson The Perfect Design Series Level 3 - Thoughts

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Perfect Design Series Level 3 is a 51 minute workout that uses a chair for the butt/leg segment of the workout. Following the warm up, Tracy takes you through an intense glute/leg workout were you are doing multi-component exercises for a high number of repetitions.  In many cases, you are working through several planes and a range of motion as you extend, bend and sweep through the various exercise. During the warm up segment you are simply following along. The cuing instruction for the leg/glutes exercise is very precise and detailed. This segment is about 35 minutes of the workout.. Tracy starts out cuing the mat ab exercises but this turns into a follow along segment. This segment is roughly 5 minutes.  As usual in the Perfect Design Series, there is no cuing of the moves in the standing ab/arms segment although Tracy does give you instruction on the "intent of a move" as she goes through this segment which is roughly about 5 minutes. There is a very brief cool down ...

Tracy Anderson The Perfect Design Series Level 1 - Thoughts

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Tracy Anderson  Perfect Design Series Level 1 clocks in just under 50 minutes.  This workout uses a mat.  The soundtrack is excellent and the set is pretty cool too.  It looks like a studio loft, filmed at night with the city in the background. The DVD Menu: Play All Warm Up Exercises Interview with Tracy Audio Settings Voiceover & Music On Music Off Voiceover Off The workout. The workout is divided into the following segments: warm up, legs/glutes, abs, follow along, hips/legs, arm stretches, and cool down. I have broken down the leg/glutes/hip and ab exercises on a worksheet. Please see attached list. The follow along segment included standing abs, arms, freestyle, & balance work.  I thought that this part of the workout was a mess.  Essentially Tracy stopped cuing.  Although, she is still talking during this segment.  However, she is not cuing what she is doing. Truthfully, this part of the workout moved too fast for yo...