Body Bar Express: Basic Training

Sherry Catlin
Year Released: 1999

Categories: Body Bar , Total Body Workouts


I'm not a huge Sherry Catlin fan, but I enjoyed this tape. It is more of an endurance tape than a body-building one, but I feel I got a good workout with it. It is very easily adaptable to using with dumb bells too which is a nice bonus. You might need to go one notch lower if you modify it that way to preserve form on some of the exercises because using a bar reduces wrist strain on some of the lifting exercises and you would need to compensate for that. Most of the work here is pretty standard: upright rows, squats and the like. The upper body is definitely favoured, although this is supposed to be a total-body tape. Most of the lower work was in compound movements like tacking on squats while you do something else. Biceps and triceps got very little attention, but this tape is short enough that you can tack on a segment from another tape. Overall, a nice change of pace workout, but I wouldn't recommend it if it's going to be your only strength work.

Joanna

01/07/2001