Callanetics

Callan Pinckney
Year Released: 1986

Categories: Ballet/Barre


This video will help you tone your muscles and become flexible! Everything in this video is very low key. Callan is a very caring instructor, with a very soothing voice. The movements are *extremely* small, 1/2 inch at the most during most of the exercizes. This forces you to maintain control during the movements and not get carried away by the momentum. The exercises look very easy, but when you actually get down and try them in the proper form, you are likely in for a challenge! This video manages to work muscles that one never knew even existed! Do they work? YES! I can feel the difference in my body when I do this workout regularly! The music is very soft and low key, but if you are like me, you find yourself unconsciously going to the beat of the music when you do most workouts. The low-key music avoids that and instead puts the focus back on working your body at it's own pace. After about 2 months, I stopped using the video because silence helped me relax more and move more at my own pace instead of following their on-screen counter. There is an Advanced Callanetics video that I haven't seen yet, instead I use her Callanetics book and Callanetics for Your Back book to get new exercizes and stretches from. I have become so flexible from this video, that in a step aerobics class I visited a while ago, during the stretches, I heard "Wow, she's so flexible" during the cool down - and that was from the instructor! It has also helped me tone, especially the abdominals. I highly recommend this video for anyone who wants to tone their muscles in a very slow, deep way and for anyone looking to improve their flexibility!

Callan's voice is very soothing, and has somewhere between a Southern and British accent. She seems to really care about her students in the video and about helping you achieve the proper form for each exercise.

Zevaluz

06/23/1997