Customer Reviews:
pointless DVD.......2007-07-31
This is not formatted as a workout but rather as a showcase of amateur pilates students. At the beginning the instructor (who doesn't actually do the pilates himself but rather stands around telling the students what to do) says that there isn't actually enough time on the DVD to do all the reps of each exercise that one is supposed to do, which means that you are expected to keep pausing the DVD - hardly a fluid way of doing a pilates workout. The exercises are not explained well and most of the time the names of the exercises take up the whole screen so you can't even see the students getting into the positions. Waste of time buying this DVD.
Amusing, but hardly instructive.......2007-03-31
I bought this because I wanted a good work out with Pilates at home and I have taught it for several years. I was amazed at the poor quality, the demonstrators did not know what they were doing, diction fumbles were not edited out and the bodies were sometimes totally incapable of doing the exercises. At one point the female demonstrator almost rolls off the box she is working on. 'Never mind', Mr Menezes said, 'the body will get used to it'.
If you do not know the exercises there is very little accurate description, so I suggest finding one that is more informative and descriptive. If you do know the exercises dont bother with this dvd for it is not styled as a work out, simply as a show of exercises. I just wish that they had rehearsed it. It is disconcerting that the male demonstrator is often caught peeking at the female one behind him to see what he should be doing.
I did less than three minutes of exercise with it before I stopped and simply sat watching in amused horror, and laughed my way through the rest of the hour.
I give this one star simply because I am not allowed to give it none.
Good for a laugh but in no way a Pilates instruction dvd.
Pilates - Advanced Programme.......2006-09-21
I bought this DVD as i have been doing Pilates for several years now and wanted something to challenge me more, which this did. It is clearly explained , but you do need to be at intermediate or advanced level of Pilates.
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