Instructor's name: Linda Wooldridge

Type of Workout: Total Body

Fitness Level: Intermediate/advanced

Equipment Needed: Resistance Band, Playground ball or Pilates/Barre Ball

Total Running Time: 89 Minutes

Manufacture Year: 2018

Region: 0 - This is a DVD-R

GET ALL 7 MAT INTERVALS WORKOUTS

Welcome to the Mat Intervals Series. These workouts are short and punchy using intervals of 50 seconds of work with 10 seconds of rest to lengthen and strengthen your entire body. You will see all your favourite Pilates Barre mat exercises with a unique twist to keep things interesting. Using additional equipment such as a Pilates band and fit ball, you will intensify the exercises to give you even better results.

THE WORKOUTS ARE:

Abs (13 mins): In this workout you will see straight leg extensions, figure 8s, band walks, upper and lower crunches, teasers and tucks – all using the band.

Back (13 mins): You start with exercise combinations for the upper back, then move to back extensions on and off the ball targeting your lower and middle back.

Outer Thighs (13 mins): Using the band you will see side lying leg raises, forward and side bend press, develope with leg circles, rainbows with glute raises and point and flex combinations with back kicks.

Upper (13 mins): Lots of combination moves such as chest press and fly, lat pull down with diagonal pulls, triceps overhead extensions and back rows as well as biceps curls all using the band.

Inner Thighs (12 mins): In this workout you will see lying ball squeezes, rotations and raises, a side lying series with inner thigh raises and bend presses using the ball as added weight and finally a glute bridge exercise with the ball between the thighs to squeeze whilst contracting the glutes.

Glutes (13 mins): Using the ball you will perform table top leg raises and squeezes, lying glute raises, hip thrusts with your back on the ball and glute-bridge and roll-ins with your feet on the ball.

Obliques (12 mins): target your waistline with fit ball Russian twists, seated and laying bicycles, windmills, side lying v-ups and knee-ins.

What is Barlates Body Blitz: Barlates is a fusion style workout that borrows from pilates, barre, ballet, yoga and more traditional cardio and toning. The idea was to create a workout, which flows seamlessly from one move into the next using the principles of isotension and high repetitions to build long, lean muscles. By using a lighter weight with high repetitions the exercises are designed to target all of those underused smaller muscle groups resulting in a defined, lengthened dancer's physique. This is a real girls workout in the sense that it is fun and feminine, but don't get me wrong it is still super intense with a big burn factor! The workouts are designed to be mixed and matched with an array of 20-30 minute upper body, lower body, abdominal and total body workouts that can be strung together for a longer session or done individually if you are short on time. These workouts will hit all those trouble spots and best of all you don't even need to wear shoes to do them! Get ready to sweat, puff and burn - hopefully you'll love every minute of it!