10 Minute Solution: Pilates
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Movie Reviews of 10 Minute Solution: Pilates
Movie Review: Short and sweet
Summary: 5 Stars
This exercise video release strengthens your abdominal muscles. I'm totally happy with how it's setup in five segments. I usually do about three at a time giving me 30 minutes of exercise. The instructor is clear and precise with her directions and I feel like my posture is greatly improving.Movie Review: Good for when you're short on time!
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this DVD, it's helpful for those days when you know you should work out, but just don't have the time. Pilates is a great way to get toned without getting bulky. I really like the Flexibility routine on this DVD.Movie Review: Awesome low-impact workout!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am an excercise video junkie, and I really liked this one. I am new to pilates and found this to be a great introduction.
Way to go Lara!!
Movie Review: Pilates are back!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD has encouraged me to get back to Pilates! I have done PIlates for years until 2005, when I got pregnant and stopped doing it. On May, this year 2007, I decided to retry Pilates but I found out my old DVD had dissapeared! So I ordered this one and I love it!!! Laura Hudson is awsome. She does it so well! And the fact this DVD is separated in 10 minutes workouts, it makes it easy for a mommy like me to keep doing it. I personally love the ABs and the sculpting ones the most! ABs really gives you a basic ABs workout that you can see results fast and arrange most Pilates ABs (if you know most Pilates ABs out there). Sculpting arrange lots of arm sculpting exercises, which requires you to have some hand weights avalable. But not hard at all to do. Real fun and real beneficial if you are looking for a exercise to tone your arms but not getting "muscle" there.
In resume, this DVD has made me fall in love with Pilates all over again! Great buy!!!
Movie Review: Time-Manageable, Contemporary Pilates
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a highly enjoyable `contemporary' Pilates DVD that is divided up into body-part or goal-specific routines. These include "Pilates for Abs", "Pilates for Buns & Thighs", "Sculpting Pilates", "Pilates Burn" and "Pilates for Flexibility". Lara Hudson is the lone exerciser in this video, who cues and demonstrates the routines in a bright spacious, fashionably designed set. A good portion of the music is exactly the same as that which is featured on the "Bar Method" exercise DVDs - upbeat yet soothing, and very appropriate.
The Sculpting Pilates segment focuses on the arms & shoulders and uses light dumbbells (no more than 3 pounds) by incorporating them into Pilates exercises such as "the saw". The Pilates Burn segment is a fast-paced total body routine that's more intense. The Pilates for Abs and Pilates for Buns & Thighs segments are pretty standard, engaging but not too challenging, except in regards to the level of flexibility required for several of the routines. The Pilates for Flexibility segment is actually more of a Pilates-Yoga blend - or Yogalates if you will - but it provides a nice, overall stretch.
I am amused by some of the remarks that "you can't do Pilates in just ten minutes." First of all, this DVD is 50 minutes, not 10 minutes long, and is simply divided into five 10 minute segments. Had these people actually took the time to watch the DVD let alone do the exercises, they would have known this. When you combine all of these segments together, you will get a full body Pilates workout. Second, one could technically do a Pilates exercise in 10 minutes, 5 minutes or even 30 seconds! Sure, the less amount of time you devote to exercising, the less results you're going to see, but technically speaking one could do a specific exercise in such amount of time. However, the 10 minute segments are practical for when you're pressed for time, to do on "off" days, or as an add-on to another type of workout.
The only notable drawback to this otherwise wonderful DVD is that Lara intertwines both beginner and advanced-level Pilates exercises without making this distinction clear, and she doesn't really offer much visual modification. If you're naturally flexible this should be a pretty doable workout for you, otherwise, proceed with caution or you could potentially injure your back. For this reason alone I would rate this as an intermediate-level Pilates DVD overall, even though the exercises themselves aren't super challenging, though they are effective when done consistently. The newer "10 Minute Solution: Rapid Results Pilates" also starring Lara Hudson is even further complicated by this problem, and I would recommend "10 Minute Solution: Slim & Sculpt Pilates" with Suzanne Bowen as the next step up from this instead.
Rating: Good