Barre3 Ballet Boot Camp with Candace Ofcacek

I'm a big Barre3 fan, and working out at home is much easier for me than making a trip out to the gym. If your looking to do barre at home, this is a great video and for the short duration, it's a wonderful workout that rivals some other 40 minute videos they offer.

Great short workout. If you haven't been doing this type of exercise until now I recommend starting with 1lb weights and then moving up to 2lbs weights as you get stronger.

New quality, fast shipping, and the CD works perfectly. i'm super pleased with this purchase. Cant wait for my body to feel like its on fire when I use it :P

Love this video. Candace does a great job and really puts your legs through a tough workout. The item arrived on time and I am happy with the seller.

Excellent low impact video for toning legs.

Great barre video

I’m on a barre kick these days and I was very happy to be introduced to the Barre 3 workouts. Ballet Boot Camp is a 30 minute barre routine, with a 10 minute bonus ballet core.The workout is divided into 4 10 minute sections so you can pick sections according to your schedule. Candace Ofcacek teaches this workout. Her teaching style is very similar to that of Sadie Lincoln, the Barre 3 Founder. There are two modifiers working out with Candace, one is doing an easier version and the other is doing an advanced version.What you’ll need for this workout: chair, small playground ball, light dumbbells and an exercise mat.The breakdown:Warm-up and Arms – 8 minutesYou work both your arms and your legs during this section. The triceps and shoulders are mostly worked, with a little bit of bicep work.Legs – 10 minutesYou use do lunges, or carousel horse, as Candace calls it. You also use the chair and the ball for those dreaded mini-squeezes.Glutes and Core – 9:40 minutesNow the focus is on the glutes. The core work has twists, but they aren’t horribly hard, since you are using the ball behind your back for support. I still really felt it in my obliques and could maintain good form, which I find hard to do while doing twists without the ball support.Bonus Ballet Core—10:50 minutes.I felt so graceful doing this core work. You are doing plies while lying on your backWhy I love this workout:* Candace is a wonderful instructor. I love her form pointers. I find it is very easy to get out of alignment doing barre workouts, so it’s great to be reminded about form. It’s as though Candace was right in the room with you. I especially love the reminders to stand tall and to pull in your core.* The slow pace really works you!* It works! During the workout, my muscles aren’t necessarily burning, but I sure feel them the next day.* The background exercisers. One of them, Marguerite, participated in the 25 day challenge doing this workout and she got some great results. It is nice to see a ‘normal’ size person in a barre workout, instead of the little ballerina types that are usually in these workouts.If you are looking for a barre workout that will challenge you without killing you, this workout may just be for you!

This is the first ballet barre workout I've tried, and I found it to be engaging and challenging, with easy to understand moves and instructions. The only fault I find is that it's quite short -- less than 30 minutes -- so some may find that's not enough bang for the buck. Still, you really work those muscles - especially the core and thighs - during that short time. I could feel my muscles shake with effort not long into it. I used 5 pound weights (as that's what I have) - that's probably a little heavier than what you want but it worked fine and I put them down when they got too heavy. I look forward to doing this again and trying other workouts in this series.