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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9781929143597 Feature: In this more rigorous routine, Ana increases the duration and intensity of previously-learned exercises to give you a comprehensive workout for both your mind and body Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 1929143591 Label: Living Arts Manufacturer: Living Arts Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Living Arts Release Date: February 06, 2001 Running Time: 100 minutes Sales Rank: 14245 Studio: Living Arts
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In this more rigorous routine, Ana increases the duration and intensity of previously-learned exercises to give you a comprehensive workout for both your mind and body
Product Description: In Intermediate Mat Workout, certified Pilates instructor Ana Caban guides you through more sublte yet challenging movements while continuing to focus on the key principles of this unique conditioning method.
Amazon.com: If you enjoyed Ana Caban's exceptional beginning-level video, Pilates: Mat-Based Workout for Beginners, and you've progressed enough to continue on to the next level, Caban is back with an intermediate workout. Assuming you have already mastered the first workout, she makes the exercises more intense, with fewer breaks between exercises, and adds some new ones that will really challenge your "powerhouse" muscles. Fortunately, another exerciser demonstrates modifications for the hardest exercises. Caban is a superb role model and instructor, piling on technique tips so that you don't mistakenly think these exercises are easy by cheating. It's unfortunate, though, that the sound quality isn't up to the instruction quality. Caban sometimes sounds just fine, and a moment later she sounds like she's in an echo chamber. This problem persists through the whole 40-minute video. Still, this is an excellent Pilates program and will become one of your regular workouts. --Joan Price
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great Intermediate Workout
I had been doing the am/pm pilates dvd off and on for about three years, and I borrowed this workout from the library when I started to want a slightly longer workout. I love the faster pace of this workout, and Ana Cabon does a great job of explaining the pilates theory behing each movement. I find that even when I go back to the am/pm dvd for a short 20 minute stretch, I get more out of it by incorporating the tips I got on the intermediate workout. I highly recommend this for anyone ready to move from a beginners to an intermediate pilates workout.
Rating: - Standard Caban... very good!
If you have done much of Ana Caban's videos, then this DVD will not be a shock to your system. I never did the "Pilates Beginners Workout" (my first Caban video was quick start pilates...), so I'm not sure how well this DVD works as a follow up to that beginner routine. However, as a stand alone workout it is very challenging.
I would compare it in difficulty to her Maintenance Pilates DVD (if you've done that). There are a few different exercises that I haven't seen in other Caban Videos (the swimming, for example), and she also does some of the commentary live (as opposed to via ... Read More
Rating: - good
classic pilates or not, I found the workout good. not very challenging and a bit short, that's true but then you have the extra bonus. i thought it was nice and smooth and very well explained. actually the movements go from one position to another in such a good order that it kind of comes naturally to follow without too much explanation. That of course, if one is a bit (just a bit :) in shape and has some basic knowledge of pilates.
i didn't find the shooting so disturbing nor the sound quality bad as other reviewers complained. very nice instructor. to the point and concise.
Rating: - Not bad
I only started doing yoga and pilates a couple months ago, and I got this video because I felt confident that I was intermediate enough to attempt it. I was nervous before I first did it because it kept warning that it was a lot harder than the beginner version that I hadn't done. After I did it though, it really was not the difficulty I expected. It is slower paced, and doesn't have as many repetitions as I expected. The intermediate work out is only about a half an hour long also and I was expecting an hour. It is not a bad work out though, but i consider it more as a warm up for me.
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Rating: - great follow-up to beginning mat workout
Great follow-up with clear directions and nice pace. Different levels provided. Poses challenging, just wish it was a little bit longer (I am used to doing an hour class).
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