The combination of dance, strength training, yoga and meditation makes for a fun and original workout, and is the basis of the Yoga Booty Ballet workout program. Created in 1998 by Gillian Marloth and Teigh McDonough, a fitness instructor and dancer, respectively, Yoga Booty Ballet has gone from a group fitness class at one gym in Los Angeles to a series of successfully selling DVDs.
Calories
Yoga Booty Ballet offers fun while you get fit. Each hour-long workout burns 400 to 500 calories, according to Beachbody, the Yoga Booty Ballet manufacturer. The ballet, strength and yoga moves are designed to help you burn fat while also increasing lean muscle mass and improving your flexibility.
Ballet
Ballet requires strong legs, glutes, core and back to be executed in the proper manner. The Yoga Booty Ballet workout begins with ballet and right away you are entering the calorie and fat burning zone while you engage in ballet moves, such as plies and battement tendu, among others, that warm up your body and build lean muscle mass. Your body responds to increased muscle by kicking your metabolism into high gear. No formal ballet or dance instruction is needed, as the instructors break down each move in order to make them accessible to beginners as well as experienced dancers.
Strength
Now that your body is warmed up from the ballet, you are ready for the strength training session. Improving your strength in this manner not only builds lean muscle mass and burns fat and calories, but it helps to increase your bone density, boost your metabolism, strengthen your heart and helps to prevent medical conditions such as heart disease and high blood pressure. Dumbbells weighing two to 10 pounds, depending on your strength level, are needed for the strength training section. The DVD will take you through a routine that includes lunges, squats, overhead presses, lateral raises, bicep curls and triceps extensions.
Yoga
The workout ends with a yoga session, which, while stretching your muscles and helping to increase your flexibility, will also continue to burn fat and build strength and lean muscle mass. No prior yoga experience is needed and the instructors once again break down the yoga poses so that beginners as well as experienced practitioners are able to benefit. Poses done during this session include downward dog, sun salutations and plank pose. Additional squats and abdominal work are also included in this session.
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