Kries' Pilates Method: 3 Dimensional Toning (2001)

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For those who are newer to exercise, I'd recommend

this one. It's not a piece of cake by any means, but

it has a nice variety, is never intimidating, and has

nice music, starting out with Spanish guitar.

Overall, this can be considered a dancer's workout,

using your own body weight as resistance. No

equipment is needed.

starts you off with some stretches with

gentle movement, that gradually becomes a flowing and

stretching dance, incorporating a few plies.

The next segment is actual ballet, and I really liked

this section for the balance work, which I need, and

also I haven't done ballet since my mom forced me and

my dad to take it with her when I was a teenager.

Thank god Dad was there to take it with me! He looked

even klutzier than me! :-)

Following that is some yoga, and the next 20 minutes

is all pilates.

has a very professional demeanor, but didn't

mirror her cueing for the first section, and at the

risk of sounding like a broken record, there is just

no excuse for not mirroring. If I can do it in my

classes, then there is no excuse for these seasoned

professionals! Her class are all lithe and lovely,

and look like ballet dancers.

This workout has a lovely, nonstop energy flow to it.

You do not once ever get bored. I'm settting it aside

as an add on or low energy day tape, but it would be a

super intro to pilates and corework tape for a

beginner.

I have 2 more in this series I'd like to do for this week.