Instructor's name: Linda Stejskal

Type of Workout: Aerobics & Toning

Fitness Level: Intermediate

Equipment Needed: light hand weights, chair, resistance loop band, ankle weights

Total Running Time: 109 Minutes

Manufacture Year: 2024

Region: 0 - This is a DVD-R

This series has a variety of cardio and sculpting workouts to get your heart rate up and muscles burning. The workouts are short and sharp, so you can string a few together, add them to a weights or cardio session or just do them stand-alone on a day where you don't have much time. They are music only workouts, so if you prefer to put on your own playlist you definitely can!

THE SET INCLUDES:

After Dinner Walk (14 min): Do this 1200 step, 14 min workout after a meal to level blood sugar. It is an easier pace with 40 second intervals. If you get into a habit of doing gentle exercise, such as walking, after eating a big meal, you will avoid blood sugar spikes that are not great for your health.

Ankle Weight Mat (16 min): You will see side laying exercises with a lot of oblique engagement and angle changes to work all parts of the thighs. Then move to an all 4s segment with raises and extensions as well as some plank work. Finally finish on your back for a short abs burnout!

Broomstick Raises (16 min): Get ready to wobble with me as we work our thighs from all angles using a broomstick for balance. You core will be firing throughout as you challenge your balance whilst working through barre style leg raises and extensions. The timer is set to 40 seconds of work with 10 seconds of rest.

Cardio Loop Band (26 min): The timer is set to 40 seconds of work 10 seconds of rest with some more cardio driven intervals and some sculpting focused. Although the main focus is the lower body, due to the resistance band, there are a lot of core moves too.

Cardio Upper (22 min): Get 2000 extra steps in with this fun, upper body focused workout. Grab some light hand weights to work your arms whilst doing simple steps with your lower body. The timer is set to 40 seconds of work with 10 seconds of rest. There are some slower exercises and others to ramp up the heart rate!

Standing Ankle Weight Abs (15 mins): Strap on your ankle weights, or do it without and grab a chair for this all standing, abs and lower body combo. There are more cardio based intervals and targeted barre style toning to help you tighten that belly, especially the waistline. A short, but effective workout to get the blood pumping and the muscles nice and toastie.

What is Barlates Body Blitz: Barlates is a fusion style workout that borrows from pilates, barre, ballet, yoga and more traditional cardio and toning. The idea was to create a workout, which flows seamlessly from one move into the next using the principles of isotension and high repetitions to build long, lean muscles. By using a lighter weight with high repetitions the exercises are designed to target all of those underused smaller muscle groups resulting in a defined, lengthened dancer's physique. This is a real girls workout in the sense that it is fun and feminine, but don't get me wrong it is still super intense with a big burn factor! The workouts are designed to be mixed and matched with an array of 20-30 minute upper body, lower body, abdominal and total body workouts that can be strung together for a longer session or done individually if you are short on time. These workouts will hit all those trouble spots and best of all you don't even need to wear shoes to do them! Get ready to sweat, puff and burn - hopefully you'll love every minute of it!