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starring: Method-Pilates
List Price: $12.98Amazon.com's Price: $12.33 You Save: $0.65 ( 5%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781577139188
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 1577139186
Label: Parade Video
Manufacturer: Parade Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Parade Video
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Running Time: 58 minutes
Sales Rank: 61662
Studio: Parade Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This is not your typical toning workout: Dynamic Toning--inspired by yoga, dance, and Pilates more than weight training--focuses on balance, alignment, and core conditioning as well as strength and flexibility. This 60-minute video includes three different 'precision toning' workouts, done barefoot, with background rhythms from live drummers. Instructor Marion Gotto clearly explains the sometimes complicated positions and movements.
Workout 1, Total Toning (20 minutes)
The moves are slow and controlled. The choice of exercises makes it seem more like a ballet warm-up than a toning workout, however, with the exception of a Pilates abdominal series.
Workout 2, Upper Body Toning (21 minutes)
Very light weights (1 to 3 pounds) in nontraditional exercises. For example, hold your arms straight out in front and do slow biceps curls from this position, curling your wrist to touch your shoulders at the end, meanwhile lifting the heels to add the challenge of balance. Pushups finish out this segment. This isn't a well-rounded workout--your shoulders will get more work than other muscles.
Workout 3, Abdominal Toning (19 minutes)
Pilates-based, core conditioning exercises for the abs. You won't find a single traditional crunch here. Instead, you're working your deepest abdominal muscles with exercises such as roll-ups and a variety of exercises done on your back with shoulders and legs lifted. --Joan Price
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Easy in every way
In terms of ease to use and follow this tape is fantastic. The instructor is really easy to follow and doesn't go to quickly. Unfortunately, that's also the routines biggest flaw. This routine would be great for when you first wake up in the morning and are too groggy to jump right into a workout but the whole thing felt like a really dragged out warm up. There are definitely not enough exercises or repetitions to do very much good, especially not in the abs section. The upper body section was the ... Read More
Rating:  - Helped me on my way
When I started exercising for the first time, the first 20 minute full body yoga/pilates workout changed my attitude towards working out. It didn't hurt, I just felt better. Taller and stronger in my back. My vcr ate my vhs tape so I am finally looking for a replacement since I have been out of the fitness loop for a few years. My thoughts on this workout is, if you are already in excellent shape it's not going to help lose weight. If you are out of shape or new to a "stretching" type workout it ... Read More
Rating:  - Not Pilates
This is so far removed from anything like true Pilates that I believe it should not be listed when "Pilates" is used to search for videos. This is an American-style, Aerobic-type workout video which is fine if that's what you want. The only relationship it has to Pilates is a few of the postures you hit for about 10 seconds each, but not in any way can you say that they are done the way that a trained Pilates instructor would do them. A grave disappointment!
Rating: - Didn't feel very effective to me....
Having used 'The Firm' tapes regularly for more than a year, I decided to give Pilates a try for a change in workout. I tried this tape for the first time this morning and was for the most part, unsatisfied. The way the instructor chants with the beat of the drums in the backround is thoroughly annoying, and the workout left no part of my body feeling...well...worked. Maybe the focus on the upper body was OK, but I didn't have any trouble with the ab or total body sections. It felt like a very long ... Read More
Rating: - Exercise and stress relief in one tape
Excellent combination of dance and pilates inspired exercises that provides not only a very effective low impact workout but requires focus and concentration that allows for mental stress relief as well. I saw results very quickly with this tape in the way of a more toned and flexible body as well as eventually being able to complete the entire tape without taking any rest stops (oh those burning abs and hamstrings). Having taken many modern dance classes as well as studying pilates, this tape seems ... Read More
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