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Tracie Long's The Studio Series Core Movements Volume 1 and Volume 2 DVD contains two 30-minute workouts. The first workout is Brace Yourself.  This is a functional based workout that uses a variety of tools to work through stability and balance core type movements.  The DVD Menu 1. Play All 2. Loop  Band 3. Sliders 4. Core Rotations 5. Back Strengthening 6. Transverse Abdominals Brace Yourself uses a band, disc (or paper plates), dumbbells, and a ball.  Loosen Up is the second workout.  This workout uses a foam roller, yoga block and yoga strap to stretch the body and help increase range of motion and improve mobility.  Loosen Up also includes a Turkish Get-Up segment where Tracie really breaks down the mechanics of this exercise.  This workout also uses a dumbbell or med ball.  This was my favorite of the two workouts. The DVD Menu 1. Play All 2. Hip/Quads 3. Pigeon (Butt) 4. Thoracic 5. Adductors 6. Hamstrings 7.  ...

Signature Series Volume 2 is the second iteration of Tracie Long's 2020 workout release. It is similar to Volume 1 in that it is roughly broken down into the following three sections: Mobility Exercises Weights & Cardio Core & Final Stretch Flexibility and range of motion is the focus of the mobility segment. Tracie does include weighted exercises for more intensity. Again, I felt like I needed a warm up before getting into some of these exercises. Weights and Cardio segment follows next. This segment starts with cardio. Half way through the segment, there is a medicine ball mountain climber series.  In between the cardio and med ball series, you are doing a series of weighted compound exercises. This segment really flows into the Core segment. I could not tell where one ended and the other begin. Maybe  with the dead bug pullover exercise? Equipment in the workout includes, dumbbells, med/sculpting ball, stool/stand and a mat. Tracie is the only...

Signature Series Vol. 1 is a 50 minute workout led by Tracie Long.  The workout is broken down into three segments. 1. Mobility Exercises 2. Weights & Cardio 3. Floor work & Stretch The workout starts with 15 minutes of mobility work. Some exercises are performed standing and some, you are lying on the floor. This segments features range of motion exercises for the spine and hip area.  You really just jump right into this segment and I did not feel quite warmed up for some of these moves. The next segment is Weights & Cardio. In this segment, Tracie includes lots of multi-component compound moves.  In almost all exercises you are working the upper and lower body at the same time. Towards the end of this segment, there is a cardio focused segment where you are dong a bit of jumping. The floor work segment contains a lying side leg lift/ shootout series.  In this series. Tracie uses ankle weights.  This is followed by core and plank work. ...

April 2020 This month it is Tracie and Jessica and little bit of Zumba.  I am upping my Sunday treadmill runs to 2.5 miles. On the 27th and 28th of the month, I will be doing Jessica Total Body Strength workouts. The other Jessica workouts will be 30 minute Walk On workouts. The two Zumba workouts are also 30 minute workouts.

The third workout in Suzanne Bowen's BarreAmped series is BarreAmped Cardio Fat Burn .  This workout mixes tabata style drills with barre work for a cardio barre interval workout. There is a beginner modifier and and advance modifier. Suzanne is normally performing the intermediate level.If you follow Suzanne or the advance modifier, you will be performing higher impact and higher intensity style moves as they do quite a bit of jumping.  The ladies also work at a different pace from each other.  Suzanne calls it a freestyle workout. The DVD Menu Intro Warm Up Extreme Cardio Fat Burn Cardio Sculpt Cardio Core Cool down Stretch Extreme Cardio Fat Burn is your interval tabata workout. It clocks in at 26 minutes. You are doing moves like skiers, plie jacks, mount climbers and hops.  You are doing these moves for several sets before you move on to the next grouping of exercises. In between the sets, Suzanne gives you a 10 seconds rest. Cardio Sculpt is...

The second DVD in Suzanne Bowen's BarreAmped series is BarreAmped Boot Camp.   The workout is very similar to BarreAmped with the difference being that Suzanne includes low impact cardio moves in some of the segments. There is a beginner and an advance modifier in all the segments except for the stretch segment.  Within each of  the segments Suzanne does perform brief stretching after working a major muscle group or after a particular series of moves.  The equipment list include a light pair of dumbbells, a chair and a mat. The DVD Menu Boot Camp Intro - 2 min Boot Camp Warm Up - 3 min Boot Camp Arm Work - 13 min Boot Camp Thigh Work - 15 min Boot Camp Seat Work - 14 min Boot Camp Core - 18 min Boot Camp Stretch - 10 min Very challenging workout for me. Suzanne will telle you to "let it shake to change"  I could definitely feel it. I could not do all the reps straight through. I would take a break and then jump back in. I enjoyed this workout a li...

BarreAmped is the first workout is Suzanne's BarreAmped series.  The workout clocks in at 74 minutes if you do the whole workout. I did not do the whole workout at once. Instead, I did the individual segments as either an add-on or standalone workout. The segments are: Warm Up - 3 min Light Weight Work - 9 min Thigh Work - 14 min Seat Work - 19 min Mat Work - 16 min Stretch - 13 min, The thigh work, seat work, and stretch segments all used a chair.  In thigh work, you are performing the moves standing. In the seat work segment, you start off  with standing moves and then move to floor based moves. The light weight work segment uses a pair of dumbbells and is upper body work. Suzanne recommended 1 to 5 lbs. The Mat  work segment was mostly upper body but using your body weight as resistance.  There is some core focus exercises in the mat segment as well. The music is background. Actually I don't remember the music at all.  The set is big and ...