15-Minute Booty Barre Challenge

Format: 3 rounds for prescribed amount of time.

Body Squats (0:30)

• Legs at hip-width distance apart, keep your chest up and lifted, core engaged.
• Bring your butt back, bending at the hips, making sure your weight is in your heels and keep your knees are tracking in line with your toes.

Knee Releve’ Extension (0:45)

• Hold on to the back of your chair with both hands or whatever you are using to keep a good balance.
• Start out with your feet hip-width distance apart, drive your left knee up to your chest and then sweep it out behind you for a booty extension.
• When your knee drives up to your chest come up onto your opposite toe lifting through the heel.
• Keep your pelvis stable, chest up, and core engaged.
• Repeat on opposite leg.

Boxing Burpees (0:30)

• Come down, plant your hands just below your shoulders.
• Step or jump your feet back into a plank position
• Do a cross body mountain climber, opposite knee to opposite elbow.
• Step or jump your feet back to your hands, come to a standing position and do a front kick, back kick and repeat using opposite legs for the kicks.
• Mod: Use the side of your chair, ottoman or couch. Elevate your body, step back into a plank position, step your feet back up and come to a standing position – instead of doing the full kick do a low knee and a back knee.

Wide Squat Lift (0:45)

• Hold on to the back of your chair with both hands, step out to a wide sumo stance, toes turned out slightly, shoulders back, core engaged.
• Drop your hips back, coming into a sumo squat and lower down toward the center of your space.
• As you come up sweep your leg up laterally, alternating sides after each squat.

Super Marios (0:45)

• Begin standing, and step your left leg behind you coming into a reverse lunge. The knees are aligned with the toes.
• As you come forward with the right leg, drive it up toward your chest, propelling yourself off the ground. Your left arm drives up into the air, reaching for Mario’s gold coins.
• Land softly on the left foot. Repeat on opposite side.
• Mod: Step back into a reverse lunge, and as you come up don’t jump. Power your knee up to your chest. It’s a great idea to hold onto the wall or chair back to aid in balancing.