Body Bar Express: Basic Training

Sherry Catlin
Year Released: 1999

Categories: Body Bar , Total Body Workouts



This is an efficient and elegant 30 min body bar w/o that uses every second of the half hour. There is a short warmup that goes right into shoulder work (the shoulders are worked a lot), Since there are no pauses, you’ll want to select your bb weight carefully. That thing will get heavy fast! You do different shoulder & back exercises (overhd presses, lat raises, front raises, combos, clean & lift, etc.), squats & plié squats, delts, biceps, triceps, with some nice if momentary stretching. There is a quick bit with pushups, and just as quick with abs, but we’re not really there for those. As Joyce T. pts out in her review, the “killer part” is that you do a set of 8 reps, then 8 reps pulsing at different heights, thus working everything. A couple of times, Sherry says, “Are you awake? We’re awake” or “Are you dying? I’m dying,” and that was right when I was. It’s a tough, quiet, quite satisfying workout. You could also do this with dumb bells.

I should say I haven’t done this on its own. I like to do cardio, especially a kickbox or boxing oriented w/o, and then finish with this. For me, it pairs really well with something like CIA 2203 Cardio Kick It!, or Fit To Kick, or TKO.

The camera work is good. You can see what each of the three of them are doing (LaShaun and another woman are there), and a couple of times, there were very useful overhead shots to show the movement.

Beth Lee Simon

03/11/2003