Raise the Barre: Introducing Cardio Barre - the Revolutionary 8-Week Program for Total Mind/Body Transformation
Richard Giorla, Laurel House
Language: English
Pages: 188
ISBN: 0060786620
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A comprehensive guide to the hottest new fitness program in the country-Cardio Barre-a dance-based workout that combines cardio, strength training and stretching, in one fast-paced, fat-burning, body-lengthening session. With a full nutrition program as well, you'll see life-changing results in only eight weeks.
While yoga, pilates, aerobics and weightlifting are all successful, popular fitness routines, each one of them is missing something that the others offer. And with our hectic lives that leave little time for sleep, let alone hours of daily exercise, the Cardio Barre workout is the perfect combination of cardio, strength training and stretching—achieving multiple desired results from one fast-paced workout.
Richard Giorla is a classically trained dancer who has learned from his decades of training that the key to strength and endurance is developing core muscle—the center of the body must be strong in order to support the other areas of the body. In Cardio Barre, you work from your core—maintaining your balance using a barre, a countertop, a chair, or even your own strength—then repeat low-resistance motions such as plies, arm extensions, and leg flexes. With no kicking, jumping, or punching, this effective and complete workout leaves participants with long, lean muscles, flexibility, and endurance.
With the success of the Cardio Barre workout in LA, where it has gained celebrity adherents and a long waiting list of others, as well as the recent launch of Cardio Barre in New York, this is poised to become the new "it" workout. And unlike past fitness fads, Cardio Barre sets realistic goals, including following a healthy eating program, and offers the desired results of both cardio health and strength in only eight weeks.
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I think this is a good book and I really enjoy the program, but I do want to mention a couple of things. This routine is hard, especially for a beginning exerciser it would be very difficult to complete. I'm in pretty good shape and I'm struggling with Week One! The exercises do make me feel more supple and relaxed, and they definitely make me stronger without a lot of equipment.
The other thing is that it takes longer to do the routines than the author states. He claims that Week One should last 20 minutes, but even at the end of the second week of Week One (like I said, it's hard!) it was still taking me over 30 minutes to complete it. By the end of the program he states that you should be doing the program six days a week for an hour, so I would schedule at least an hour and a half.
There's some decent diet advice in here, and overall I'm happy with the book.
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/6/2009
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
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