Raise the Barre: Introducing Cardio Barre--The Revolutionary 8-Week Program for Total Mind Body Transformation

324 Pages·2006·3.14 MB·English

by  Richard Giorla

Introducing
CARDIO BARRE—
The Revolutionary 8-Week Program
for Total Mind/Body Transformation
Raise
the
Barre
Richard Giorla
with Laurel House

Contents
Acknowledgments vi 5
Introduction 1
Prepare—A New Beginning 63
1
Self-assessment 64
What You Need 73
3 Key Elements of Fitness 13 What to Expect 77
The 8 Core Elements of
Cardio Barre 18 6
2
Feed Your Body 81
Guidelines for Planning Your
3 Keys to Maintaining New Nutritional Attitude 86
Optimum Health 23
7
3
Week One—Let’s Do This! 97
Body Basics—Body Awareness 41 Getting Started 100
Terms and Proper Placement 49 The Program—Mind Your Body:
It’s All in the Details 50 A New You Resolution 103
Goal Setting 51 Move Your Body: Week
One—3 days, 20 minutes 105
4 Changed My Life... 169
Women Need to Know 53
8 12
Week Two—Mind Your Body 175 Week Six—Mind Your Body 233
Move Your Body: Week Move Your Body: Week
Two—3 days, 30 minutes 176 Six—5 days, 50 minutes 234
Changed My Life... 196 Changed My Life... 244
9 13
Week Three—Mind Your Body 201 Week Seven—Mind Your Body 251
Move Your Body: Week Move Your Body: Week
Three—4 days, 30 minutes 202 Seven—6 days, 50 minutes 253
Changed My Life... 204 Changed My Life... 255
10 14
Week Four—Mind Your Body 207 Week Eight—Mind Your Body 261
Move Your Body: Week Move Your Body: Week
Four—4 days, 40 minutes 208 Eight—6 days, 60 minutes 262
Changed My Life... 219 Changed My Life . . . 275
11 15
Week Five—Mind Your Body 223 Cardio Living 279
Move Your Body: Week Index 303
Five—5 days, 40 minutes 224
About the Authors
Changed My Life... 226
Credits
Cover
Copyright
About the Publisher
Acknowledgments
There are just too many people to name who have contributed to the success of
Cardio Barre. I give all of my thanks to my family, friends, clients, business as-
sociates, and everyone who gave their love, support, and wisdom to make all of
this possible and make me strong. I would also like to thank those who gave no
support or had little faith in me, for making me stronger.This is just to say that
throughout life there will always be obstacles, challenges, and adversity . . . and
anything is possible . . . dreams do come true. Follow your dreams!
My heartfelt thanks and love to the people who helped put this book to-
gether. Thank you to my editor, Sarah Durand, my agent, Michael Broussard,
and Laurel House, who helped translate my passion into words.
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Introduction
Life is not measured by the number of
breaths you take,but by the number of
moments that take your breath away.
—Anonymous
Take a bow, Tae Bo; stop your wheels, Spinning; step aside, Pilates—there is a
new fitness phenomenon in town. Cardio Barre is not just the fitness flavor-of-
the-month, but rather a cutting-edge, body-burning, stretching and strengthen-
ing system that will change the way you view working out, while shaping you
into your image of bodily perfection.
What you hold in your hands is the “hottest, new” in exercise. Cardio
Barre has become the buzzword on the tips of trendsetter’s tongues. Having
consumed yoga, Pilates, Spinning, and Tae Bo long ago, exercise enthusiasts
are now in need of something new to sink their teeth into. Celebrity trainers
have tried to satisfy your exercise appetites, but their tips often turn out to be
little more than old material made to look new. In an attempt to fill the fitness
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void, a profusion of diet books have filled our bookshelves, asking us to elim-
inate entire food groups. Whatever happened to balance? If you want a better
body, you have to raise the bar, paying equal attention to healthy diet and ex-
ercise habits. Cardio Barre is new and unique and most important—effective.
It will raise the bar in fitness, setting a new standard that all other fads will fol-
low. This book is not about Band-Aid fixes or short cuts, it is about real,
quickly achieved, long-lasting effects. I will provide the tools—the body ba-
sics, exercise techniques, and nutritional consultation—and illuminate the
path to inspiration.
Give me 8 weeks and watch as your perfect body takes shape. The one
thing in this world that you can control is yourself and your body. Take control
right now. I will teach you how.
My name is Richard Giorla and I am the founder of Cardio Barre.
If you are reading this book, chances are that you are ready to make, or
are at least thinking about, some sort of change in your life. You don’t neces-
sarily need to be struggling with weight issues to get something out of this. In
fact, many of my students are lean. While I definitely work with women who
are overweight, I also work with women and men who are trying to maintain
their weight, tone up, or work on self-esteem. So whoever you are, whatever
your issues may be, I am ready to take you on, if you are ready to make the
commitment. The fact is that everyone struggles at one point in his or her
life. I did. And everyone can also overcome the difficulties, leap over the hur-
dles, take steps to overcome defeat and actually be better because of it. Be-
lieve me, I know not only from the endless stories that I hear from my
students, but also from personal experience. Yes, I too had to raise my own
bar and crawl out of a potentially disastrous downward spiral that seemed to
be swallowing up my energy, body, and enthusiasm to live the life I had al-
ways envisioned for myself.