General Breakdown: Like the original P57 Classic, this is fast-paced barre workout based strongly on the Lotte Berk method. It starts with knee raises in a brief warm-up before moving to upper body work. This was fairly similar to the original one with some minor variations like one-legged push-ups. It looked like everyone was using 5# - 8# weights for these, so heavier than the original, but the general idea was that even in the first one you should be going heavier if it's getting too easy. Thigh work came next, mostly standing work with the ball with the legs in a curtsey (versus parallel) position with some thigh dancing at the end. Standing glute work was next and this included some new moves (the swirl) that also targeted the outer hip. Next was floor work that included the L and clam before repeating everything on the other side. Next was abdominal work which was a mix of pilates based moves and C-curve based variations.

Production Quality: I thought the set was nice and bright and that you could see the different exercises performed well. I also loved the music on this one. The workout was chaptered. Towards the end of Tanya's introduction she does give some brief form pointers on one of the new moves used in this workout.

Overall Impressions: I thought this workout had a nice blend of traditional barre work and some new variations that weren't used before. I also thought it was very balanced for thigh and glute work. On the whole I found it slightly more challenging than the original workout.

Instructor Comments:
Tanya is very enthusiastic instructor, almost to a fault. She does seem to try and contain herself more (there's less rapping), but if you didn't like her in the first set you probably won't in this set.

Ella76