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Sleek Technique Full Ballet Body Sculpt consist of five 10-minute ballet inspired workouts plus warm up and cool down. This DVD came as a three-DVD set. The warm up, tutorial and cool down are the same sessions included on Sleek Techniques other two workouts. See below for a link to the other two DVDs. The DVD Menu Introduction Tutorial Warm Up Mat Abs Standing Abs Ballerina Back & Arms Perfect Pro Legs Sassy Show Girl Cool Down Mat Abs starts off working the lower abs with supine frog plies and single leg switches. Next we move to lying side work working the right side by dong arabesques crunches, attitudes and side planks.  Then comes a set of front elbow planks. The exercise repeat leading left. After repeating the exercise, we do a set of can cans, 4 point extension, and full planks. The session concludes with down dog single leg splits. Clocks in at 10:49 and features both Victoria and Flik. Standing Abs is led by Flik and clocks in at 11:07.  It includes plies, twi...

Red Hot Barre Fitness is a 57-minute barre inspired workout led by Christine Gallagher DeFilippis. The DVD Menu Introduction Play Workout Chapters     Warm Up     Cardio Barre     Athletic Barre     Center Work     Ballet Barre     Mat Work     Stretch Premixes     Quick Cardio Barre (20:55)     Cardio Barre (25:37)     Cardio Sports Barre (34:49)     Cardio Sports Barre + Core (43:51)     Quick Athletic Barre (24:14)     Athletic Barre (28:56) Credits   The workout flows pretty well. You are  doing at least two sets but usually three sets of each of the exercises.  Along with  Christine, there are two other cast members. One cast member shows advance barre/ballet movement.  Christine offers modifications along the way. For the Ballet Barre segment, Christine and cast use a chair.  A mat is used in the mat work segment.  De...

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...

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 seque...

Ballet Body Core is a 45 minute workout in which you do about 10 minutes of standing toning and then about 30 minutes of floor toning and ending with a stretch. Like the lower and upper Ballet Body workouts, Leah used voice-over in this workout; and the voice-over is done very well. The standing sections alternates between expansive moves and smaller pulsing moves. The floor work includes a set of side planks performed in various positions (knee in, leg straight out).  Leah also includes several sets of exercises for the lower and upper abs.  You also go onto all fours and do what I thought were some interesting exercises.  Supermans also show up. All movement is set to the beat of the music.  I think this is my favorite out of all of Leah's Ballet Body workouts. The DVD offers the following optons: Play All Music Only (No instruction) 4 stars.

Ballet Fitness by Jennee:   Ballet Blas t is probably going to be my favorite ballet DVD workout that I have.   There is not a barre or chair but Jennee tells you that you can get a chair if you require more stability.   However, Jennee would prefer you to use your own balance. The workout clocks in at 50 minutes and includes several sections that you can select on their own.   In fact the DVD offers the following options : Play All Play Workout Only Warm up Plié’ blast Cardio blast Ballet sculpt Ab blast Cool down Extras In the ballet sculpt and ab blast sections Jennee does use a set of hand weights and a mat is use in the ab and cool down segments.   Along with Jennee there are two other cast members and all cast members work out with bare feet. Jennee offers form tips as she takes you through various exercises; showing you the wrong way and telling you not to do it.   She also offers various modifications showing yo...

Ballet Body Upper Body clocks in at around 45 minutes and it is essentially divided up into two parts, a floor plank section and a standing light weights section. For the plank section, there are full arm extended planks, side planks, front elbow planks, side elbow planks, and reverse planks.  In these various plank positions you do several exercises altering the tempo or rep pattern throughout the sets.  In the plank segments, the shoulders are getting worked constantly.  The standing weight segment uses hand weights.  Leah recommends 2 to 5lb dumbbells.  There is a lot of shoulder work in this section as well, but also there is some chest, rear delt and triceps work.   Circles and more circle - there are a lot of sets where you are circling the arms in one direction and then you reverse and circle in the opposite direction. This workout was challenging for me. I had to take lots of breaks. Also in this workout, I didn't think Leah's voice...

Well I kind of felt that Rockin Models was all over the place. It seems like there was a lot of stuff put into this workout starting with the equipment list : Body Bar or chair Yoga Mat Exercise Ball towel a hat The workout combines yoga, ballet and the burlesque style of dancing and it is around 70 minutes long. At the beginning of the DVD, you can select Play All or Chapters. If you select chapters, you get the following options : Interview Artists Workout Rockin Models The Interview segment is an interview with Grace Lazenby. She introduces and talks about her concept for Rockin Model. The Artists section showcases a music video from each of the artist whose music appear in the workout.    The workout section is further broken down into the following tracks: FireFly - Warm up How the Day Sounds - Yoga Ghost Town - Yoga Evil - Standing Ballet Burlesque Your Melody - Yoga Honestly - Yoga Take me Home - Standing Ballet Barre Comes and Goes - C...

Well as voice-overs go,  Ballet Body Lower Body Extreme Muscle Elongation is one of the best.  Really, the narration is right in sink with what Leah is doing.  This workout requires a mat and some type of barre (chair) that can be use to assist with balance or the ballet exercises that appear throughout. The first part of the workout is one long standing series of moves mostly using the barre.  Every once in a while, Leah will release the barre and workout without it.  You work all parts of the leg - calf, hamstring, quads, glutes, inner thigh, and outer thigh.  There is a lot of isometric training and a lot of working up on your toes.  All the moves are choreograph to the beat of the music.  I like this.  I found it much easier to follow what Leah was doing and I felt I was able to go longer into each set because of this.  Often with ballet type workouts, I have to take more breaks than other type of workouts. The second part of...

Ballet Body by Leah Sarago has the following DVD menu options: Play Full Workout (75 minutes) Warm up (5 minutes) Upper Body Workout (20 Minutes) uses light dumbbells Lower Body Workout (20 Minutes)  uses a barre Core Workout (20 Minutes) Cool Down/Stretch (10 Minutes) Instructional Segment (12 Minutes) There is also a 3 minute introduction to the workout. Except for the Instructional Segment, Leah is the only cast member. During the Instructional Segment, Leah has Daina, show different modifications for the core, upper, and lower body exercises that you will see Leah perform in the main part of the workout. At 75 minutes, I did think the main workout long but you can choose to do just a couple of the individual workouts or even parts of those individual workouts. While the workout as a whole moves from exercise to exercise without stopping, the DVD does contain chapter points (segments) that allow you to move forward to a particular point on the DVD. In the U...

Ballet Body by Jazzercise is lead by Emily Tyson, Ashley McConnell, and Emily Newland .  It is approximately 40 minutes in length.  It contains a warm up, 6 sculpting tracks, and a cool down. Track 1 - lower body (standing) Track 2 - upper body (standing) Track 3 - lower body (standing) Track 4 - lower body (standing) Track 5 - core (standing/floor) Track 6 - lower body (floor) I do not do a lot of barre style workouts, so I thought several aspects of this workout tough.  I did like like the length of the workout- just long enough to be challenging but not so long  I got bored.  I tend to get bored with barre style workouts.   I thought both the instructors and the soundtrack great, and I love the vibe that they gave off. There is a chair used in the standing lower body tracks and a mat used for the floor work.  During the workout, one of the instructors shows advance moves and another one shows beginner modifications. DVD Menu Op...

AeroBarre is a 50 minute workout that combines ballet and boxing interval cardio and sculpting sets. It features Leila Fazel as the "demonstrator" of the moves and exercises and Michael Olajide Jr as the narrator. The set is a boxing ring, although Leila doesn't use the ring. She exercises in front of it. The workout contains 11 rounds, but the rounds are short. There is a warm up and cool down round and in between that, there are rounds that feature ballet moves, boxing moves and a combination of ballet and boxing moves. Leila uses a light set of hand weights and a body bar in various parts of the exercises. There were simple cardio burst dispersed throughout. This is a really unique workout and I felt quite challenged. I am not very good at ballet or boxing, although I like them both. Leila varied the tempo quite a bit. The faster she would go, the harder it would be for me to controls the move and it didn't matter if she was doing boxing drills or ballet drills. ...