10 Minute Solution: Pilates
Description
NO TIME TO EXERCISE?
We have the solution for you – the 10 Minute Solution! Everyone can find at least ten minutes in their day, and we’ve developed 5 fabulous Pilates workouts, each only 10 minutes. Instructor Lara Hudson has designed the workouts so that you can utilize each individually, or mix and match the sets to create a completely custom workout. You can also put all 5 sets together for an incredible 50-minute, total-body Pilates workout!
PILATES FOR ABS
Want a flatter, firmer belly? Here’s your secret weapon! Pilates is all about connecting with your core and this super-targeted workout will activate your deepest abdominal muscles. By using the Pilates technique you’ll achieve that sleek midsection that you just can’t get with crunches or other repetitive, monotonous exercises.
PILATES FOR BUNS AND THIGHS
If you’re looking for a way to tone and re-shape those hard-to-reach trouble spots, this is 10 minutes very well spent! Lara uses dynamic, smooth-flowing movements to target and re-define your lower body. This Pilates routine really delivers lean, toned legs and firm, beautifully sculpted buns!
SCULPTING PILATES
Get ready for sexy shoulders and sculpted arms! This Pilates-based program smartly incorporates light handweights to help you tone and define your arms and shoulders WITHOUT adding bulk. Sculpting Pilates is gentle like traditional Pilates, but because it adds weights, you’ll see faster results than ever before.
PILATES BURN
If you’re serious about REALLY burning some extra calories, try this challenging, but fluid Pilates Burn sequence. Lara leads you through this distinctive workout of cardio plus toning plus all-out, total-body conditioning all wrapped into one. Keep breathing, stay focused and sweat away those pounds!
PILATES FOR FLEXIBILITY
Feel good all over with this set, which focuses on lengthening and stretching to achieve that dancer’s body that you just can’t get from straight cardio or muscletraining workouts. You get dual benefits from this totally invigorating 10 minutes… you’ll increase flexibility, and melt away stress and anxiety.
I have been teaching Pilates since the early 1970s. I was fortunate enough to study with Joseph Pilates in the 1960s. Joseph Pilates would be happy to know his method of exercise is so popular. But he would not be happy about all the ways people change his method and lifelong dedication to helping people stay healthy. Joseph Pilates created a fascinating and complicated technique of body conditioning. And I never saw him teach a person for 10 minutes. 10 minutes would never be enough. Innovation can be helpful but not in this situation. For me, the traditional Pilates method can never be improved upon because it’s too sophisticated and too complete. Please, no yoga-lates no bal-lates no aqua-lates no others.
Rating: 2 / 5
The 10 Minute Solution Pilates video doesn’t represent the method Joseph Pilates created. Joseph Pilates taught people to workout their entire body because health and well-being come from using your mind, body and spirit. Joseph Pilates did not separate workouts for different parts of the body. For example, he did not say, “Here is Pilates for abs,” “Here is Pilates for thighs,” or “Here is Pilates for back.” He created a holistic system. Try Complete Pilates for Everyone or Classical Pilates.
Rating: 2 / 5
I have been taking pilates classes (mat and reformer) for over four years, and during that time have become familiar with several different pilates instructors and techniques. I purchased this video because of my travel schedule — I like the concept of ten-minute increments. Although I did sweat, I was quickly annoyed by the instructor’s ditsy voice, and her demeanor struck me as unnatural and contrived. I also felt like form was not well emphasized, despite the fact that it is the key to getting results in pilates. All in all, I’m glad I tried it, but it doesn’t add much to an ever-increasing collection of pilates videos.
Rating: 2 / 5
I have this DVD at home & in my opinion, I THINK IT SUCKS!!!!I have several other pilates videos & it just wasnt long or challenging enough. I wish I could get my money back. I have read some of the online reviews & everyone else loved..So back to my original statement…I must have gotten wrong DVD. If you value your money dont buy this DVD!!!!
Rating: 2 / 5
Is it really possible to get a true workout in 10 minutes? In this amount of time you can briefly exercise a few muscle groups. Even though this video has good production value and a nice narrator, real Pilates can’t be done in 10 minutes. If you want a Pilates basic video consider getting Pilates for Dummies because it’s much more complete. You can get a full workout.
Rating: 3 / 5