Ballet Beautiful Cardio Fat Burn

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Instructor's name: Mary Helen Bowers

Type of Workout: Aerobics & Toning

Fitness Level: Intermediate

Equipment Needed: None

Total Running Time: 60 Minutes

Release Date: 2013

Region: 1 

Burn fat and get a tight and toned body with Mary Helen Bowers, trainer to the stars!Blast major calories, strengthen and shape a lean dancer’s body with high-intensity cardio intervals and targeted mat work. An energizing, fast-paced workout designed to challenge and sculpt sleek ballet muscles while revving the metabolism. Includes four 15-minute fat-burning cardio Allegra intervals with killer mat exercises focused on building lean, toned muscles in the abs, arms, butt and legs. Finish it all off with an extended stretch to lengthen the muscles and a cooldown for a body that is elegant, strong and uber Ballet Beautiful!

WARM-UP: 8 minutes

CORE WORKOUT (10.5 mins): Get your heart rate up with a quick warm-up and then move into a high-intensity cardio interval followed by a targeted ab workout.

UPPER BODY (16.5 minutes): Tone a sleek, strong upper body and elegant posture with targeted arm exercises and a fast-paced cardio interval.

LOWER BODY (13 minutes): Focused exercises to tone the inner thigh and sculpt long, lean legs with cardio elements.

TOTAL BODY WORKOUT (11 minutes): Burn calories and tighten and tone with this full body cardio workout, and then cool down with light stretching.

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE IT!
This workout is tough! Not being a dancer, I found it hard to learn the moves for the allegro intervals at first. I am sure many non-dancers have the same problem with this workout, but I found with repetition, the moves get much easier and you can indeed learn them. I have Mary Helen's Body Blast and Total Body Workout which I love, so I decided to give this one a try and I am happy I did. Whenever I do Mary Helen's workout tapes, I always feel like they go by fast (which is good), but at the same time I know I am working out all of my muscles and am tired at the end. I do a lot of yoga and was getting bored so I decided to try more dance/ballet exercises and let me tell you, they work like nothing else! I have only been practicing with her DVDs for a little over a month and my legs look totally streamlined and beautiful. My posture is better and the arm exercises are awesome!! This lady will get you results! LOVE Mary Helen and her Ballet Beautiful line!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Love MHB
I recently rediscovered MHB/Ballet Beautiful and I'm so glad I did! I had the total body workout DVD for about a year. I had done it a few times, but felt that it just wasn't enough, and spent time and money doing bar method (going to a local studio) and other DVDs. I also mix in other things: running, spinning, Insanity, T25, etc.

Back in December I decided to give Ballet Beautiful a try again and something just clicked! I ended up buying this dvd and all of her other DVDs, spent the month of January doing JUST her DVDs and lost inches everywhere! There is something in the way her exercises are designed that make them just work!

Since then, I've started an intense kettlebell program (yes, I know, I am all over the map!!), which I love, but still do 2-4 days of BB each week!

Again - I have done every workout under the sun, have done the dripping sweat, high intensity, yoga, etc. and I will admit my first reaction was that this was just nothing to get excited about, but they really do work!

5.0 out of 5 stars Really good one
I own all of MHB's DVDs and this is one of my favorite ones. Finally something active and challenging. I actually decided to do as i call it: " BB 30- day challenge" just to see how effective the programme is. I am at day 15 and i see incredible results. No, i did not loose any weight, but tha's not my intention. My legs and bottom never felt stronger. I can actually feel muscles there, my bottom lifted up. Sometimes i combine this aerobic DVd with MHB's traditional bridge series workout.

Bottom line: it works wonders! And fast, if you do it 4-5 times a week. If you want loose weight id suggest to add something more aerobic, like swimming or a treadmill, perhaps.

Money well spent!