The Video: I really don't like the video quality - and poor Callan's orange leotard just does awful things for the color scheme. The music is a bit silly - at least its quiet. The participants all have very real, but nicely toned bodies. They range in age form 18-76, and there is one man.

The Exercises: The exercises are really quite effective. But they are not typical American Fitness exercises - very very slow, tiny pulsing movements, emphasis on balance and flexibility, nothing aerobic. They *really* work, though. You muscles become longer and leaner and stronger.

I like using the video, even though I learned the exercises from the book, because it keeps me on track, and helps me follow through with the whole hour program. There are four exercised described in the book that she omits in the video: Two hips and behind exercises, "open and close" and the calf stretch. (I hear they re-appear in "Super Callanetics.")

Instructor Comments:
Callan is very interesting person. According to her book, she was raised a Southern Belle, and then ran off to Europe and Africa. She now has a British/Southern Accent. She's very much into making the body supple and flexible - not athletic.

Sonya