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Master Your Body The Body Bar Series is a twenty plus volume collection of fitness videos offering a variety of different workouts for all fitness ranges. The best way to describe these videos are fresh and innovative promoted in a professional atmosphere.The videos are broken down into four sections strength and conditioning, cardio and strength, sports training, and mind/body influenced.
What I like about these videos are they are done by excellent instructors, they pack a lot of workout in 30 to 60 minutes, cover a variety of different types of fitness, and offer many innovative moves not found in many fitness videos. What keeps me coming back to these videos are you do not outgrown them, as you achieve a level, you can opt to do move advanced variations or go up to the next bar level.
Control is one area these videos offer and form is stressed in all the videos, doing reps at a slower pace makes the workouts harder when you have to work at control and form which are very important aspects of strength training. In many of the videos you will pick up the pace, but I have never felt so out of control like I have in other videos that I am sacrificing form just to perform the move. Also some of these video incorporate some really tough moves to challenge your body and that is where I have seen the most gains in athletic performance in other areas of my life.
The New Body Bar Workout (Step) Volume 1 instructor Keli Roberts runtime 60 minutes for beginner to intermediate offers sculpting, defining, and strengthening and part of the Strength and Conditioning series. Grab your classic body bar and step platform and get ready for a very challenging workout . This video is rated for beginner and intermediate but it feels more like intermediate to advanced compared to other fitness instructor videos especially with the planks near the end of the video.
The tape begins with a low impact aerobic warm up to get your muscles all warmed up. You will alternate mostly between upper and lower body. You will do a number of different variations in many of the exercises and that will also include pulses where you pulse the bar for a short range of motion. You begin by going right into squats.
After squats is military presses and upright rows and then onto dead lifts. Now onto your step platform for some standing leg dips, then some step ups on your stepping platform. You then come back to upper body to do some lat rows. Then some side lifts. then you redo the standing leg dips, lat rows, and side lifts again. Okay, now on your step platform for some lunges and then onto some bicep curls and followed by wrist curls.
Now it is time for push ups using the bar across you step platform and then you lay down for pull over lats, and overhead French presses. Okay, now back to some more difficult work tricep dips with the body bar across your lap for added resistance. Now down to the floor for inner and outer thing lifts using the bar and then off to do some crunches holding the bar across your shoulder for added resistance. Next comes planks and then glute lifts if I remember right and then you are off to a cool down.
This is a tough and challenging tape with some real muscle builders such as planks, tricep dips, and push ups. This video can be done with a heavy and light bar also, instead of just one bar.
Sports Zone Volume 2 instructor Carey Bond and Lashaun Dale runtime 60 minutes intermediate to advanced offers endurance, strength, and power and part of the Sport Training series. This video you work through different moves for different sports while using a classic body bar. Make sure you have plenty of room around you as in some moves you extend the bar out .
The is a sports-oriented moves tape utilizing the body bar where you start with a warm up. After the warm up you start with the muscle conditioning segment and do push ups, lunges, lunges alternating the body bar from side to side. You do a variety of repetitions with these moves, some standard, some slow, and some fast, some with limited range, some with full range etc...
The next segments is sports drills where you simulate various sports movements using the body bar. Some of the sports are skating, paddling a boat, ski moggelling, surfing, rock climbing. The third segment you work on agility by doing the exercises rapidly such as moving between two bars. The final segment is working on core strength through balance work and working your abs. Then you are off to a final cool down using the bar for stretching.
Kickboxing Circuit Volume 3 instructor Alain Bissanithe runtime for beginner to intermediate offers speed, power, balance, coordination and part of the Sport Training series. This video alternates strength training intervals using a classic body bar with kickboxing combinations. Make sure you have plenty of room around you for the stick fighting section near the end of the video.
In this video you start with a nice warm up then you grab your bar for you first muscle conditioning segment where you use the bar to do knee lifts, front kicks, squats, shoulder presses, and then finally squats followed by front kicks. Then you are onto your first segment of kickboxing where you do squats, squat kicks, squat with knee up, jabs, punches, and boxer shuffles.
The second muscle conditioning segment using the body bar for balance while you work on roundhouse kicks, side kicks, and push kicks like you are pushing your foot out to close a door, or pushing your foot out and sweeping it over a table. The second kickboxing segment you do stick and move combo which is where you jab, squat, move, jab, squat, move, and then followed by a side kick or roundhouse kick. There are two variation to this segment.
The third muscle conditioning works your upper body with doing one arm rows, front raises, upright rows, military presses, and military presses and upright rows. The third kickboxing segment is the most intense where you do boxer shuffles, jabs, knee raises, front kicks, shoe shines, and fast knee shuffles in place.
The fourth muscle conditioning segment you work your hamstrings by using the bar as resistance resting on your back of your foot while doing back kicks, leg lifts, and raises. Then using the bar across your front foot you do side lifts for working your inner thigh. The fourth kickboxing segment you incorporate jabs, cross hooks, knee lifts, cross punches, front, back, and round house kicks.
The final muscle conditioning segment you focus on one arm bicep curls, bicep curls, in a variation of speed and counting such as three up and one down etc... The final part of this segment is imitation stick fighting where you alternate between lefts. You raise you knee with the bar on top for added resistance, the raise the bar up to you chest while you do a front kick, then you step back into a lunge while take the bar a sweeping it to the opposite side. Kind of lick paddling a boat then you repeat on the other side. The final kickboxing segment incorporate what you have worked on in the other segments into a more detailed routine and adds a few jump kicks to the routine and of course some more shoe shine if those shoes are shined enough by now. Now onto the cool down and you are done.
This is an innovative tape and the body bar segments compliment the kickboxing sections where you start out and continue to build through out the video.
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