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DVD : Pilates for Life: 20 Minute Overall Workout |
- Easy to understandEasy to understand and follow along. I do this everyday and it makes me feel great!!!
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- Odd little workoutI have been practicing and teaching Pilates for several years now, and I'm always looking for practices that will either give me fresh ideas for teaching or will help me get a good workout of my own. This one didn't do either.
My major objection to this practice is that it is advertised as beginner and intermediate and yet the instructor includes a few high intermediate and even advanced movements, such as the Pilates pushup and Teaser 5. These are difficult movements even with modifications, and if I were a beginning student, I think I'd be discouraged by their presence here. On the other hand, she does a very modified version of the Hundred- we don't even move our arms- and by the end of the workout I was looking at the screen and trying to figure out who the target audience was.
The workout felt like it was trying to hit all of the areas of the body. Technically, it did, but I just didn't feel worked out after that. Part of the problem, I think, was that she included a lot of reps of a lower number of exercises. That always irritates me in a Pilates practice, because my understanding of the Pilates philosophy is to do a few perfect repetitions of a varied repertoire of exercises. Also, the exercises she picked just didn't seem to do it. There was the aforementioned Hundred, a Criss Cross which she spent a lot of time setting up, the Roll Up, Teaser, Teaser 5, Swimming, Side Lifts and then Pushups. Then we finished with a neck stretch- and I left the workout not feeling too much of anything.
I love the idea of a shorter Pilates workout, but this just isn't what I'd reach for.
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- great pilates tape!Pilates are hard! You know those moments in a pilates class when you find yourself actively hating the person making you do these really hard painful things? Well, she moves so quickly through the exercises that you can do them. This is the first pilates tape I've bought that I feel exercised and competent doing. I'm sore the next day, in that really great "I did Pilates!" way. It's working and it's doable.
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- pilatesI love this workout. Even when I lack energy for a more energetic workout, I can carry this out and it warms up all my muscles and makes me feel great.
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- Can be challenging, but not strenuousIt's true, this is one workout, not two. There are, however, two instructors to follow, making it both beginner and "intermediate" level. The music is not auditorialy exciting, and the set is not visually exciting, but the workout can be tailored to be challenging, but not strenuous. I give it a rating of average.
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