The 21 Day Fix system is a series of seven workouts (plus several optional routines) plus a nutrition plan designed to change your body when followed as specified for 21 days. The workouts are led by Autumn Calabrese, who teaches each routine live with a group of approximately six background exercisers. In general, Calabrese sets up each move and then walks around the room, offering words of encouragement and pushing the class members to perform.

Barre Legs is one of the add-on workouts for 21 Day Fix, and the theme (each workout has a theme) is "You may not be there yet, but you're closer than you were yesterday." When doing the rotation, I used this workout back-to-back after Lower Fix, which I found worked for a one-hour lower body routine. Unlike the other Fix workouts, Barre Legs is not done in rounds. Rather, each exercise is performed for 20 repetitions, pulsed 20 times, and then held for 30 seconds. There isn't as much for Cat to modify here--i.e., no weights are used, and there is no impact--but she does modify a few moves. I actually made some of the exercises more difficult by holding a light weight against the working leg.

The Warm-Up is EXACTLY the same on ALL 21 Day Fix workouts: Calabrese starts with a light jog and then moves through jumping jacks, side reaches, "windmills" (large alternating arm circles front and back), overhead reaches to either side, and alternating toe touches (about 3 minutes total). The exercises in the workout are listed below.

Sumo Squat
Squat
Standing Front Leg Lift
Split (static) Lunge
Standing Attitude (rear leg lift)
All Fours Heel Press
Standing Calf Raise
Side Lying Leg Lift

All of the cool-downs for the 21 Day Fix are basically the same. This one is about 3 1/2 minutes and starts on the floor in child's pose (L-R), seated forward bend, butterfly forward bend, wide-leg forward bend/revolved, seated side stretch, and finish standing for a quad stretch.

Instructor Comments:
I find Autumn's instructor to be just okay. She does mirror cue, which is nice, and she offers decent form pointers at times. But I'm not a fan of the walk around the room style of instructing, which comes across more like a drill sergeant to me; I find it much more motivating when the instructor does the workout right along with me the entire time. Also, I don't like the ways in which Autumn says things that could unnecessarily lead you to push yourself to injury, such as "you can do anything for 60 seconds!" (no, sometimes you can't) and suggesting that you should be getting "all the way down to the ground" when stretching.

Beth C (aka toaster)