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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...

Sleek Ballet Bootcamp has three 20-minute workouts plus a warm up and cool down. The warm up and cool down are the same segments that appear in the Barre Technique workout. All the workouts are narrated/voice over. The voice over is done very well and the cuing is excellent. DVD Menu Introduction Tutorial Warm Up Ballet Bootcamp 1 Ballet Bootcamp 2 Ballet Bootcamp 3 Cool down Credits Ballet Bootcamp 1 is led by Flik Swan.  There is a standing part and floor part.  Some of the exercises in this workout are: Plie Tendu Series, Chasses, Plies, & Lunges, Port de bras, plank, parallel plies. Floor work include lying plies, lying leg walks, leg lifts and side planks. Ballet Bootcamp 2 is led by Victoria Marr and Flik Swann. This workout also includes a standing segment and a floor segment. In the standing segment there is an intense arm sequence.  Also in the standing section there is a lengthy cardio arabesque knee pull series.  For the floor segmen...

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...