Personal Narrative: Fusion Fitness

I have been exercising for over 20 years and have pretty much tried every style of exercise on the market. I have done the heavy weights programs, the Insanity style boot camps, step aerobics, circuit training, HIIT training, stationary bike etc. etc. etc. and then I stumbled upon barre! And let me tell you, I was skeptical that it would deliver results considering the intense style of training I had been used to, but low and behold it did!! I have never been leaner, I have never had more slender limbs, I have never had less body fat than now - and that is definitely due to a combination of barre workouts along with cardio.

My first experience of barre was the Fusion Fitness Dream Body workout. I was totally taken aback by it. I couldn't believe that a …show more content…
It is a ballet style workout that uses all your tiny muscle groups that hardly ever get touched with traditional strength training. When you look at a ballerina's physique you can clearly see the definition in all those tiny muscles - and the best thing about it they very rarely lift weights! Your body weight is enough of a weight itself and if you start to use it wisely you will start to lengthen and lean out your muscles like never before. The great thing about barre is that it isn't complicated. It's really accessible to anyone - dance experience or not. The moves are tiny and controlled and a lot of the barre workouts I have tried don't have any cardio in them at all. The word barre actually refers to the ballet bar that is used for a lot of the exercises, but you don't even need one of those - just use a sturdy chair or counter top to hold on to.

One of the reasons why barre is so effective is because it uses a lot of iso-tension in the exercises. So, for example, if you perform a leg lift you lift your leg as high as you can go and then you start pulsing from there. There's no big range of motion, you literally are moving an inch at a time, but the burn is

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