By the end of this video you're going to learn two new barre exercises.
If you're a barre teacher, you can add these to your classes to make them even
more amazing. And if you're just a pure lover of
barre, then I'm going to teach you some great technique that you can take to
your classes to take them to the next level.
Hi, I'm Andrea Robertson and I'm here to make the world a healthier and happier
place in a very big way. I have taught over 150 people all
over the world how to become amazing barre instructors
and personally I've taught over 14,000 clients in my studio here in Adelaide
Australia as well as countless more online.
Today, I'm going to teach you two of my favorite barre exercises and how to
transition in between them so that your classes can have a non-stop
flow. All right, let's get into it. The two exercises that we're going to
learn today are a lovely releve series into a really long
walking warm-up series. So these start facing the barre, feet in parallel,
shoulders back, tummies in, and we rise, releve up onto our toes
and down. As you come up, straight legs squeeze the glutes, and lower.
Ankles stay together, so you want to make sure you're not sickling the feet apart
like this as you rise up. Ankles stay absolutely glued. Lift
and lower. So we're taking eight plain ones like this then we take them to
tempo with an accent down, not quite pressing
all the way to the ground, down, and down, and down, for four,
three, two, and then accent comes up. Tempo as well.
Lift, and lift, and lift, and lift, for four, three, two, and then full range
of motion for eight more. Down and up, down and up, keep lifting up,
long through the tummy, shoulders are back, last four,
grow long and tall, last two, hold the next one up on releve. And our
transition to get into walking warm up is super easy because we're starting
with the feet in the same position so we don't need a special exercise to
transition. This works because the two exercises after each other have the same
footwork. Okay so we're finishing up on releve,
walking warm-up just takes it through a walking movement
the right heel lifted, then the left, and walk,
and walk, walk, walk, walk, walk. Now i've been liking, lately to
take this up tempo and then even add a little jog in just to get the heart rate
up at the start of class. So walk walk walk, taking it to tempo, and
then saying to take it to a little jog if the clients wish, then we go back to
the slow walk, to get ready for one up and one down. So
it goes one up, then you sink down to a chair
plie as the other heel lifts. So we've got 90 degrees in our knees and
our hips, shoulders are back, so not rounding through the back,
proud chest, and the vertical spine. We come up again, one up,
one down, one up, one down, for eight times, and up
and down, up and down, last two, last one, hold the next one down.
One heel is lifted we take eight pulses with that heel lifted,
pulse and pulse, for four, three, two, and then we change lift the other
heel off, eight pulses there, down, down, down, for four,
three, two, as we come up now into our walking warm up
you'll see our other heel is lifting first. So I've done a nice little switch
to take eight at the top, four, three, two,
one, and then one up one down again. One up,
one down, one up, one down, lift, lower, lift,
lower, last four, three, two,
we hold the next one down. Eight pulses again with this heel lifted,
for eight, seven, keep a proud chest, keep those arms long, make sure you're not
ducking forward with bent arms, two, and change other heel lifts, for
eight, pulse
four, three, two, stay low and switch the feet.
We switch and pulse, switch and pulse, and switch,
switch, for four, three, two, one. Then coming up. Oh my goodness my
legs are burning and shaking already. All
right, let's do that with the music.
Well done. There you have it, the skills and technique for two great barre
exercises. If you enjoyed this I'd love for you to
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