Swing. Turn. Swirl. Twirl. Sway. Roll. Rock. Reel. Reel! Our team loved it the moment they heard it. REEL (and all its perfect synonyms) just describes this class so well. When you finish, you’ll find yourself giddily reeling from all the cardio you’ll have done in this 55-minute cardio-packed class.

BariREEL is a mashup of the major cardio elements featured in our other classes, sensory cardio and trampoline cardio. If these terms seem unfamiliar to you, it’s likely that you’ve just stumbled upon this series. In which case, I’m stopping you here and sending you back to GO: read about BariMACRO and BariBOUNCE to get the scoop on these primary Bari elements.

Or perhaps you think you’re a MACRO and BOUNCE hot shot (okay, you probably are!). But, Triber, I need to tell you that — no matter your MACRO and/or BOUNCE brilliance — REEL is a whole different ball game. This class is all cardio. And you need to enter it with a totally different mentality. With REEL, you’re in it for the long haul. At the end of the floor cardio half, you don’t get to stop/throw your hands up/thank baby Jesus for the next thirty minutes of toning. Nope. You get to roll out that trampoline and keep going.

On one hand, this is the most simple, exhilarating and cleansing workout: all you have to do is keep moving! On the other, it’s the most demanding and exhausting workout; all you have to do is keep moving! You have no option but to bring it (and Triber, we know you can, so we expect Queen Bey-status brilliance).

Some people LOVE cardio. To them, cardio is play. I’m endlessly fascinated by the idea that for some (very fit) people, moving their bodies around quickly, in cool ways and in different directions just feels good and is fun. For them, the physical activity is a really awesome bodily experience.

Surprise! This is not me. I can make my iQniter heart rate monitor go into the warm colors just by jumping up and down for 30 seconds. I’m the one wheezing and feigning “oh, I was supposed to move my arms along with that?” This summer, I’ve started to chip away at my terrible fitness, holding these mystical, cardio-loving creatures as my golden ideal. If you’re a part of this breed of cardio fiend, you’re already convinced. You’ve already signed up for REEL in advance for the next ten weeks. This is your moment. You go, Glen Coco.

If you’re the more, uh, sedentary type, you might be saying “OK Clare, real talk: what’s all this cardio hype really about?” If you don’t usually gravitate towards cardio, there’s still so much to love about REEL (so much!). There’s the whole health spiel, which I’ll mostly save for now, because you know it already. If you need a quick refresher: cardio = good heart health.

“But even so,” some of you may protest. “Cardio just turns me off. I can’t help it.” It’s okay. I used to think so, too. Some repetitive, unstimulating cardio workouts couldn’t even tempt me if I knew Ryan Gosling would be running alongside me. But REEL is a whole different story. This cardio shouldn’t even go by the same name. I can’t promise you Ryan Gosling, but I can promise that you’ll find spurts of excitement in the wonderfully curated, highly-varied sequences. And as you come back more and more, these spurts will become more frequent and less spread out. And then, suddenly, you will become an awesome cardio-annihilating machine. Cool, right?

To quell any worries about making it through the first time, let me share one major hint. There are two key moments during which just a little extra effort will make the entire class significantly easier to nail.

The first is the song before the last song of floor cardio. The last song is easy. And by easy, I mean it’s still damn hard… but also the most exciting thing ever. For one, you’re almost done. And if you’re like me, you have an automatic crazy-person response to “LET’S-GO-GO-GO-GIVE-ME-ALL-YOU’VE-GOT!” where you get really over-the-top stoked to do literally anything at high-speed. The second to last floor cardio song gets no such hurrah. The second to last song is the where I have fully realized, wow, I. Am. Really. Freaking. Tired. I realized that if I allow the trainer to pump me up, I feel so much happier-even proud-about the first half of the class and consequently, about the whole thing. Also, I don’t flip out entirely during the following song and completely sap my energy reserve.

The second key moment is the first song of the trampoline cardio. If you can get pumped for this song, you’ll so easily set an amazing tone for the tramp series. You focus your energy here, and then you’ll ride that wave all the way through to the end. This seems like a given, but many times I have not taken my own advice and ended up riding a whole different wave. Just this little attitude shift can make all the difference.

Armed with these two moments to where you’re going to intentionally shine, I know you’ll just love REEL, dear first-time Triber. You’ll float on through and fall in love with this breathtaking (in both senses of the word) workout.

Join me next week (my very last week!) for the last Class Digest. Sob. I’m not even going to tell you what I’m writing about, just to make it that much more exciting.

Until then, stay sweaty, Tribers!

New to our Class Digest series? Read Clare’s inspiration behind the series. And if you missed our previous Class Digests, catch up on her breakdowns of BariMACRO, BariMICRO, BariBOUNCE and BariHYBRID.