Welcome 🤗 I'm Kiara & this is your go-to channel for workouts and flows that are inclusive, feel good, & build strength, mobility & flexibility! I am a classically trained ballet dancer turned fitness professional living in LA. Special emphasis on workouts for dancers seniors, older adults, & beginners! One of my passions is creating workouts that are designed to build strength, cardiovascular endurance, bone density, & give you the knowledge for how to strengthen without pain and stress!
If you're looking for even more workouts, check out my on demand platform including challenging strength training, HIIT, barre sculpt, prenatal & postnatal that you can do anytime, anywhere. I love to hear what you want to see more of 🫶
More of my credentials: NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Prenatal & Postnatal Exercise Specialist, PowerPlate Trainer, received a BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance with a Ballet Emphasis from Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
@@kiaraburns Yes! These people are truly bizarre. You look AMAZING and are doing great form. I guess scrolling on a cell phone is better, right? ;-) Your channel is wonderful.
@@SiberiaDreamsbizarre because we want people to have the information they need to achieve their goals instead of wasting their time. this crap aint get nobody nowhere. this quite literally might be the worst workout and exercise selection i have EVER seen, and i want beginners who may be confused on how to train that this is not the way.
@@GymLife-t9i How could lifting some type of weights NOT make you stronger? It's better than zoning out on TikTok for hours. There was nothing in her form that would suggest injury.
There are already tons of really effective upper body exercises you could recommend that have been around for, in some cases, literal centuries. Ladies, as a fellow woman, our skeleton has all the same muscles on it as a guy. Just do the damn incline curls, skull crushers, and lateral raises. You don't need to do weird, less effective choreography just because you're a woman. Also, burning doesn't make you strong. Progressively adding more weight, reps, or intensity as the movement gets easier is required for you to become stronger and build muscle. Also, you can't accidentally get too bulky because unless you are amab, taking androgenic drugs, or have some intersex condition, you are not coursing with testosterone like the male bodybuilder you are scared of becoming.
I lift heavy weights with all the foundational exercises often and I appreciate your in depth thoughts here! I’m a trainer that comes from a classical dance background along with specializing in training older adults. I believe in encouraging movement that builds bone density, muscle, and cardiovascular endurance; the most important aspect of all of this is a persons’ consistency. I keep things interesting in choreography and exercise selection to inspire people to move and make a practice of it. I’m thrilled that what you do works for you, the balance I have in my workouts works for me 🤗
Totally! I believe in producing some digestible content for people who don’t want to be fully immersed in the world of fitness! I’m not always going to name every single muscle group an exercise works, I’ll just show the mechanics of the movement! All brains work differently ☺️
This is whats wrong with the body building/calisthenics industry, so many beginners whatch misleading information like this 😩 Watch* I have watched your other vids, and there great. But I have to be honest and say that this isn't targeting your arms at all.. I do appreciate you tryna help the community/industry though... :)
no stretch at that angle and holding it infront of you at that angle decreases the tension and resistance, reduces the amount of load you can move, and makes it where the front delts have to take over to hold your arm in that position
I wouldn't class these as strength building exercises unless you're recovering from being bed bound for the last 30 years. They're going to be closer to cardio workouts, which effectively destroy muscle rather than send your body the signals to make more. Without hypertrophy, you won't grow anything. it's just aome slight conditioning that may warm your blood a bit if you do it fast enough.
The first one only secondarily trains triceps and only at contracted state. Yet you titled it a tricep movement. The second one does what? Trains shoulders and core and stability more than bis or tris. The third one? Why would do them at 90 degrees? Youre making your front delt the limiting factor. You will not get strong arms off any lf these movements.
I love that you are trying to help out, but these really don’t build muscle in your arms. The first one does hit the rear delts but there is clearly no tricep activation. Halos are great for stability and help with your core but again, does not exercise your arms. And as for those curls, they don’t target your biceps at all, since there is less of a stretch and less resistance. They do target your front delts a little but that’s about it. If you are new to working out please be careful of misinformation out there. Once again I know you are trying to help but seeing all the replies to the feedback you are getting; it seems you are in denial and just can’t accept the fact that these exercises are not effective for building muscle. As for my credentials, I am an athlete and I have studied anatomy in the past and work in physical therapy currently.
@@kiaraburnsyou arent doing any effective strength exercises in a video with strenth in the title. youre catering to beginners and giving them horrible advice. these are atrocious exercises and i hope people dont listen and not waste their time with any of this crap
How you can make this better 1. while the shoulder press is doing something, the pull down is not because the resistance is not pulling your arms back up 2. just do a shoulder press 3. the resistance is gravity,aimed at the ground, so this movement is useless unless performed on a cable machine 4. ok for upper traps and rear delts. but the triceps cannot be targeted unless it is in a press,pushdown,or extension variation, becaus the arms are not bent
@@kiaraburns i mean this in the nicest way possible, i love that your trying to help people, but i am too. according to ALL science and research, these will not build any muscle at all. do some research and explain to me how you target triceps with straight arms. so many people are trying to figure this fitness thing out and its much harder with so much misinformation. claiming these buold muscles is "baffling falsity" lol
@@kiaraburns most of them are giving good advice on how to improve your workout but you just ignore it and deem it “mansplaining”, whatever the hell that means.
its really foolish if you cant accept constructive critisism. everyone in here is trying to help you and your viewers get a better understanding of strength training. instead you push them away and insult their expertise and intelligence. im not seeing the "strength" your talking about either
All three exercises are highly flawed and close to useless. Sure it‘s better than doing nothing, but so is literally anything else so that’s not an argument. Why don‘t you ask people what they honestly think and how you could improve your form / exercise selection, when they already go out of their way to comment on your video. Instead you just go around and label anyone a troll that isn‘t completely in agreement with your video. You will never make it with such an attitude.
@@KL13CHit’s sad that you try to put people down for moving their body! It’s nothing but a reflection of how you feel about yourself. I’ll keep lifting all different kinds of weights as well as training mobility & calisthenics using my own bodyweight. My spine and muscles thank me ✌️
@@kiaraburnswe actually have muscles that thank us. you put other people down for giving constructive advice. just "moving your body" wont do anything for your muscles or strength. as for how we feel about ourselves, its pretty awesome to put heavy weight on bars and move it. we are building strength that we are proud of, and trying to give others advice so they can do the same
@@kiaraburns They bear no load in this variation, theyre just being stretched, which does actually help tricep mobility. The load is on your shoulders rear delt muscle. It looks like a tricep press back but the "straight arm" prefix doesnt match with the triceps responsibilities in regards to strength as opposed to flexibility or mobility. All in all, everything I said is literally semantics and technically all naming schemes are subjective so you can call whatever you want anything, all that matters is youre working out, feeling great and its still a fair workout for the muscle it hits, keep up the grind! :)
You’re a great example of the reason so many people feel intimidated to move their bodies! Sending love and light your way 🤗 my body is happy and healthy with all of my horsing around!
@@WolfNamedJohn all three of these exercises are absolutely worth peoples’ time. Movement doesn’t need to be stressful or cause strain to be effective as demonstrated 😊
1st one hits rear delts/upper traps more than anything. 2nd one… idk what that’s even supposed to do (stability ig??) 3rd one hits the bicep for about 1% of the range of motion. Please stop spreading bad advice.
The first exercise works the triceps as a secondary muscle group! Who doesn’t love strong shoulders. Exercise 2 are alternating halos. Excellent for shoulder strength, stability, as well as core engagement! The 90 degree bicep curls are a wonderful variation of curls to keep things interesting for people using lighter weights 👍
You won't build much strength with a partial exercise I'm afraid. A full range of motion is much better for the overall health of the muscle and growth/strength.
@@kiaraburns for the second one, it does absolutely nothing apart from increase your chances of injuring yourself. This is because if you want to build strength you need to go near or to failure and your form may break down a little putting you in a vulnerable position with this exercise. Literally just do lateral raises and shoulder press
@@kiaraburnshe’s right, you’re better off punching air, I know females lift like 1kg, which is fine they’re inferior, but at least make it effective, focus more on glutes 😂
You’re clearly the same person commenting negatively 😅 can I just say as someone who seems so many bodies bogged down by our sedentary daily lives that you could REALLY benefit from some movement yourself to release some endorphins and improve your poor attitude 🎉 These are upper body exercises I love and that I think people should throw into their workout routines to help them build muscle. You can take them or leave them! ✌️
@@kiaraburnswhile i agree these are better than sitting around doing nothing, he’e just tryna help as there are much more effective exercises out there for targetting the intended muscles with dumbells
@@avo1213I appreciate your thoughts! I come from a classical dance background and teach a lot of barre/pilates style classes. These are wonderful exercises for your upper body, not every exercise done needs to be THE sole best exercise intended for the muscle group. I’m all about sharing feel good movement and these exercises felt wonderful to me 🙌
I love how you get right into the exercise routine. Most exercise videos spend about 5 minutes introducing what the video will be about. (ZZZZZ). I love your energy too! Good work!
