The Bar Method Body - Designer Sculpting
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Actor: Burr LeonardDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Goldhill Home Media
Movie Reviews of The Bar Method Body - Designer Sculpting
Movie Review: TARGETS TOUGH SPOTS
Summary: 5 Stars
Overall I like this workout.
This is different than the typical aerobics or dance workout videos. The instructor uses some original and some ballet-like exercises to target tough areas, it really made my hips burn! (there are some pictures on her website [...], but it doesn't show you the actual movement she has you do that makes it so challenging!) I also like how she does a few stretches between each segment that targeted the muscles that was just worked.
She really emphasizes proper posture/form, especially what she calls the "pelvic tuck" (tightening your abs when standing)
She cues/explains the exercises very well; and once you've learned the moves, the DVD has the option to "Workout with music WITHOUT NARRATION" so you don't have to listen to her talk constantly. This video is challenging for intermediate-advance, but the moves are not complicated so it is easy for a beginning exerciser to follow (but do less reps).
I also like how upbeat tecno music, and didn't find it annoying because the music varies throughout the program.
WARM UP
ARMS
Bicep curls
*Shoulder extensions - I like the way she does them, it's intense. She has you keep your arm up and move in small range to isolate that muscle, wonderful for your shoulder posture!
LEGS
Calf raises
Deep knee bends (if you know ballet, it's like a gran plie in 2nd position)
*Inner Thigh Tap - this was suprisingly challenging. With your legs together, bend your knees while heels are liffted off the floor, and then slightly move your knees apart & together.
*Pelvic Tuck with knees bent and heels lifted
**Pretzel - While sitting on the floor, by squeezing your hip/butt muscles the leg that is to the side/back is lifted up about a centimeter off the floor. Initially I thought this would be a waste of time, but it turned out that this is really challenging and makes your hips burn (in a good way). This is now my favorite exercise to target the deep part of the difficult to reach area around the hips.
ABS (there are no traditional crunches)
*While holding a lifted crunch position, she does a long series of internally contracting ab muscles with each exhalation. T
SEAT
*Series of bridges/pelvic tucks that are super-duper-challenging. First she has you do them with legs/knees together, then legs hip width apart, and then legs wider apart. Since this is a long set and she varies the position, it really digs deep into those butt and hip muscles!
BONUS-LEGS
Calf raises
Knees bent and heels lifted
Leg lifts back
(*if you do this after the "seat" pelvic tucks, you will feel the burn 10 times more intensely.)
Complaints:
This is not an "aerobic" workout. There are definitely sections that will make your butt/legs burn, but you aren't necessarily huffing and puffing. Also, isn't a balanced/total body workout (mostly hips/legs), so this would be great to do alternating with some other workout.
There were some sections that felt a little slow for me(I get impatient), but I think that was intentional to make sure good form and to work a muscle longer or to hold a stretch.
I think the bar/chair is an unnecessary prop (except for beginngers doing the standing legs section).
Summary of The Bar Method Body - Designer Sculpting
The Bar Method elongates the thigh and seat muscles so that they sit higher on the hips. After about 10 lessons your legs look longer, your seat lifts, your abdominals pull themselves further back under the rib cage, and your shoulders, arms and chest become lean and defined. You will also burn away fat as The Bar Method keeps you feeling challenged throughout its workout. Before long your intramuscular fat will burn away to reveal your new smooth, narrow, defined body. DESIGNER SCULPTING: Designer Sculpting systematically targets the muscles that create the long, lean defined look of a dancer. During a 45 minute, full body workout Burr takes you through simple, highly effective isolations beginning with the upper body and then zeroing in on the legs, seat, waist and abs. In no time you will feel and see your hips slim down, your seat lift up and your arms gain definition. Join Burr Leonard as she instructs you how to achieve healthier, more beautiful body throughout life. A former journalist with Esquire, Forbes and Adam Smith?s Money World, Burr began studying at New York City?s Lotte Berk Method in 1981. After training and teaching at the Lotte Berk studio for a year, she opened her first studio in 1991 in Greenwich, Connecticut. Today she owns Bar Method studios in Connecticut, San Francisco and Los Angeles.Similar DVD Movies
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