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June 2024 Workout Rotation I altered quite a few of the May rotation workout due to hurting my back and knee. I kept all of Jessica Smith workouts but replaced the PHA workouts with Yoga workouts. For June, I am going to try to get back into adding more resistance in the form of Barre/Pilates workouts. The plan looks like this: Sunday - Treadmill Monday - Suzanne Bowen BarreAmped  Tuesday - Ilaria PowerStrike Wednesday - Suzanne Bowen BarreAmped Thursday - Core Rhythms  Friday - Suzanne Bowen Pilates Saturday - Pool I have add-on workouts that are recovery-mobility-stretching workouts as I am still nursing my low back and knee back to health.  

Suzanne Bowen BarreAmped Strengthen & Stretch series contains six workouts spread across two DVDs. The workouts are: Barre Power Stretch - 23 minutes - disc 1 Advanced Active Stretch - 28 minutes - disc 1 Lower Body Stretch - 20 minutes - disc 2 Upper Body Stretch - 12 minutes - disc 2 Relaxation Stretch - 13 minutes - disc 2 Bonus Ball Stretch - 6 minutes - disc 2 In BarreAmped Strengthen & Stretch, the emphasis is on the stretch throughout the five workouts.  Suzanne includes dynamic and static stretches in all the routines. There is a lot of breath work throughout the segments.  The moves in all the routines is very methodical and performed in at a controlled pace. All the routines use a mat.  Barre Power Stretch and Lower Body Stretch also uses a mobile barre (a chair can also be used).  Upper Body Stretch and Relaxation Stretch uses a yoga strap to assist with some of the stretches.  The Bonus Ball Stretch includes a ball. Barre Power Stretch - 3 ...

BarreAmped Fire Extreme Sculp t is Suzanne's super-advanced barre workout and I think it is number 4 in the series. DVD Menu Play All Intro Total Body Sculpt - 28 min Thigh & Seat - 17 min Abs Blast - 13 min Sleek & Tone Shoulders - 11 min Relaxation Stretch - 12 Minutes In Total Body Sculpt , Suzanne hits all the areas, You start off with arm work using weights. Suzanne then moves into focus thigh work and this is followed by seat work and a lunge series. The workout concludes with Mat work to include a core section. Thigh & Seat workout targets the legs and glutes.  This was a super challenging segment. Shake to change is right as I was definitely shaking. The segment starts standing and moves with wide second and high V series.  Next, you move to the floor for knee dancing and this is followed by a pretzel series.   Ab Blast starts with a standing warm-up before going to the floor for some intense upper ab work. This is followed by intense lower ab work ...

May 2022 Monthly Rotation Sunday - Treadmill 4 miles Monday - Tracie Long Grand Total Signature Series Tuesday - Core Rhythms Wednesday - Barre Amped Thursday - Piloxing Friday - Piloxing or BarreAmped Toning Workout Saturday - Rest Day/Swim Day First Saturday, I will be participating in a 5K race. The other Saturdays, I am going to try to go swimming. The BarreAmped workouts are super long. I will be splitting them up and doing parts on Wednesday and parts on Friday. There are two workouts that I have not reviewed. They are the Original Piloxing workout and BarreAmped Fire Extreme Sculpt. Those reviews will be coming up. I will also do a Round 10 mid-way update at the six week mark.  

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 ...

March 2020  I had fun with last month's rotation of FIRM strength and Amy Bento Cardio.  I was able to get in Essentrics' new workout as well.  I did not end up doing the iFIT walking workouts (decided I needed a day of rest) but I did do the Cardio Coach workouts which I really enjoyed. This month I am doing treadmill workouts and Suzanne Bowen's BarreAmped workouts. I may or may not try to get in Tracie Long's two new ones.