Pilates

Kathy Smith: Peel off the Pounds Pilates

With PEEL OFF THE POUNDS PILATES fitness expert Kathy Smith delivers a workout system that kicks the fat-burning power of Pilates into high gear. Kathy's fat-burning workout combined with her upper- and lower-body toning routines work together to reshape your arms abs hips and thighs while maximizing your weight-loss potential to reveal a leaner stronger healthier body - a Pilates body! DVD Includes: WARM-UP (5 Minutes): Prepare for an incredible workout by increasing body awareness through isolations and stretches. FAT-BURNING WORKOUT (20 Minutes): Blast calories and challenge your core with this dance-inspired total-body cardio workout infused with the principles of Pilates. UPPER BODY AND CORE PILATES MAT WORKOUT (10 Minutes): Use light weights to sculpt and strengthen your arms shoulders back and core with Kathy's favorite upper-body Pilates moves. LOWER BODY AND CORE PILATES MAT WORKOUT (10 Minutes): Strengthen and lengthen a lean lower body with a series of core-focused hip bun and thigh trimmers. COOL-DOWN (5 Minutes): Finish with relaxing stretches that concentrate on flexibility and alignment.System Requirements:Run time: 50 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS/PILATES Rating: NR UPC: 031398222620 Manufacturer No: 22262

Kathy Smith: Fat Burning Pilates

System Requirements:Running Time: 115 minutes Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR UPC: 031398221579

Kathy Smith - Pilates for Abs

Pilates is an intense, controlled way of working your core muscles--the back and abdominal muscles that stabilize your body--using technique, breathing, and concentration. Veteran instructor Kathy Smith leads an effective 30-minute Pilates workout. The 8-minute warm-up teaches the essentials of Pilates, followed by a 22-minute Pilates routine that targets the abdominals. Smith is an excellent instructor with a knack for explaining technique clearly. "Imagine a balloon pulling you up toward the opposite wall," she says as she teaches the difficult Teaser. She demonstrates the basic, sometimes modified, moves with another exerciser showing more advanced positions. Smith continues to emphasize technique, breathing, and proper position through each exercise, making sure you understand how to get the most out of each movement. This is an excellent introduction to Pilates, especially--but not exclusively--for beginners to this discipline. --Joan Price

Kathy Smith - Fat Burning Pilates

Pilates for Abs
Pilates is an intense, controlled way of working your core muscles--the back and abdominal muscles that stabilize your body--using technique, breathing, and concentration. Veteran instructor Kathy Smith leads an effective 30-minute Pilates workout. The 8-minute warm-up teaches the essentials of Pilates, followed by a 22-minute Pilates routine that targets the abdominals. Smith is an excellent instructor with a knack for explaining technique clearly. "Imagine a balloon pulling you up toward the opposite wall," she says as she teaches the difficult Teaser. She demonstrates the basic, sometimes modified, moves with another exerciser showing more advanced positions. Smith continues to emphasize technique, breathing, and proper position through each exercise, making sure you understand how to get the most out of each movement. This is an excellent introduction to Pilates, especially--but not exclusively--for beginners to this discipline. --Joan Price

Fat Burning Breakthrough
The secret to breaking through weight-loss plateaus is challenging your body to work out at a higher intensity than it's used to, to "overload" in fitness parlance. Kathy Smith's Fat Burning Breakthrough presents two 18-minute step workout "waves" that progress through ever-harder intensities, building to a peak, then gradually tapering down. The two sessions can be done singly or combined into a 46-minute workout. Smith's all-female demonstrators show modifications for higher and lower intensity throughout, and one does the whole workout without a step for a much easier version.

The choreography is more complex and the overall intensity is higher than most of Smith's videos, making this video most appropriate for intermediate exercisers. A brief weight workout follows each cardio session, and at the end is an abdominal and back routine, and a stretch.

Smith, as always, is safe and motivating, with excellent technique. Her fans appreciate that her videos contain no screaming, no frenzy, no endless counting, no distracting camera work. Although Smith is motivating, the music here is merely innocuous, barely keeping the beat. The setting is a lovely outdoor park scene. --Joan Price

Kathy Smith - Pilates for the Lower Body

Unlike other workouts that just tone muscle, Pilates is a unique physical discipline that actually changes the way you use your body. On this disc, Kathy will show you how to use Pilates exercises to develop a lean, strong body and the tall, graceful bearing of a dancer while building core strength for sports and daily activity.

Kathy Smith - Ultimate Pilates (Abs / Lower Body)

Unlike other workouts that just tone muscle, Pilates is a unique physical discipline that actually changes the way you use your body. On these discs, Kathy willl show you how to use Pilates exercises to develop a lean, strong body and the tall, graceful bearing of a dancer while building core strength for sports and daily activity. (Includes: Pilates for Abs and Pilates for the Lower Body.)