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The Method Pilates - Precision Toning and Sculpting

The Method(r) brings you the secret to the worlds most beautiful bodies! This double feature DVD combines the best-selling Precision Toning and Precision Sculpting videos featuring instructor Jennifer Kries. She gives clear and precise instructions on how you can tone, firm and flatten your abs without strenuous sit-ups or crunches! Define your buns without lunges, squats or machines and sculpt your legs without high impact aerobics.

In the Precision Sculpting segment, you can tone and trim your arms without heavy weights or boring repetitions, sculpt your chest and shoulders without pushups or chest press machines then trim and define your lower body.

Precision Toning is over an hour and a half of deep muscle techniques and mat based exercises for an all over total body toning & sculpting regime that you can see results on very quickly.

The Method Pilates - Target Specifics

The Method: Cardio Flex Band Workout

Set the tone for your body and your life. Plus, gain amazing upper and lower body muscle tone!

Warm-Up: Combines a variety of movements to prepare each muscle group for the program.

Lower Body: You'll strengthen all of the muscles in your lower body through a combination of moves that incorporate an exercise called "Pull the Sword".

Upper Body: These exercises will deliver beautiful tone to your arms and chest. With different resistance levels, you can begin at the level that is comfortable to you.

Low Impact Aerobics: With upbeat Mambo and Cha Cha music, and a fun combination of exercise and dance moves, you'll feel great and really get into the groove.

Back, Shoulders & Hips: this ection includes resistance exercises that put your back, shoulders and hips to the real test.

Abs with Jabs and Punches: Through intervals of jabs and punches, you will begin to develop perfectly toned arms and abs.

Cool Down/Stretch: This cool down will bring your heart rate down to a comfortable pace and stretch out all of the muscles you worked in the program.

Featuring Cindy Fox

The Method Tai Chi (2 Pack DVD Box Set)

The Method - Dance to Fitness

This dance class performed to live drums is similar to an aerobics class in that you elevate your heart rate with movements done to music, but it is different from what you'd see in an aerobics studio. The dancers are barefoot, the moves are more reminiscent of modern and jazz dance than an aerobic routine (though your heart rate won't know the difference), and the warm-up and all the moves are leading to a progressive routine. This video contains two separate workouts, each with its own warm-up and moves. The first emphasizes body rhythm and dynamics, led by Jennifer Kries. The second is a continuously flowing workout of modern- and jazz-dance movements, led by Lisa Wheeler. The goal of both is to increase physical strength, endurance, flexibility, and lengthening of the body. The video ends with a yogalike cool-down. If you want to get your exercise, and you'd prefer a dance class to traditional aerobics, this could be your workout solution. --Joan Price

The New Method: Baby and Mom: Postnatal Yoga

Los Angeles yoga guru Gurmukh Khalsa guides 15 new moms and their babies through 30 minutes of yoga stretches and poses, a joyful two-minute baby dance, a brief bout of baby yoga, and about 10 minutes of rest and visualization in this post-baby installment of "The Method" series of exercise tapes. The white-turbaned instructor starts with a brief talk about childbirth, yogic breathing, and a recommendation to "reclaim" one's navel. Viewers join her at the live taping of a class in a large room with Greek columns, roses, and a chamber quintet. Since it's not edited, babies cry and fuss. This adds a realistic element of chaos to the tape, which the more traditional voice-over instruction ignores. Khalsa specializes in the Kundalini method, and in this tape she concentrates on slow stretches with a lot of abdominal work. The infants are included in some, as when the women roll back and forth with babies on their bellies or do "mama pushups" over the little ones. But once they are old enough to crawl, these exercises get difficult--as one baby repeatedly demonstrates. The infants are also incorporated in a cobra/triangle series, a set of Kegels, and are even used as weights. Then it's their turn with some baby stretches of their own. Finally, the moms are invited to lie down with their offspring for the rest and relaxation finale--although, predictably, some babies do neither. The 50-minute tape provides plenty of good ideas for moms who want to do yoga with their babies--or even on their own. --Kimberly Heinrichs

The Method - Pilates Target Specifics Plus

This total body workout is based on the postures and techniques of Yoga and Pilates. By using the basic principles of concentration control and the breath connection along with strenghtening exercises you can reshape and redefine your body's trouble areas (Legs Arms Butt and Abs). Uses four 15 minute segments.Featuring:Elizabeth Young certified Pilates instructor studied Exercise Sports and Fitness at the University of Utah. Received her Pilates Certification through Polestar Education and specializes in Pilates training for rehabilitiation.System Requirements:Running Time: 66 Min. Color.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS UPC: 071083565168 Manufacturer No: 5651-6

The New Method: Baby and Mom: Prenatal Yoga

Relaxing, strengthening, and allowing oneself to feel rather than think have long been associated with ancient yoga practice. Instructor Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa expertly ties this essential combination of physical experiences together in a gentle exercise video for pregnant women of all fitness levels. Prior to the 45-minute routine, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa discusses the role of yoga in helping with pregnancy; the calm and security that develop through guided breathing and gentle movement are transferred from the mother's body to her growing baby. The nonimpact routine itself provides ample warm-up, toning, and conditioning portions, as well as a deep, head-to-toe relaxation and visualization segment. Ten pregnant students (all pleasantly unrehearsed) stretch, bend, and learn along with the viewer, to the peaceful sounds of a live band consisting of wood flute, bass, quiet drum, and shimmering bells. Every bit as enriching for the soul as it is for the body. --Liane Thomas

The Method - Precision Yoga

The Method Pilates - All in One Workout

Defy gravity defy age! This easy-to-follow full-body Method workout is designed for maximum fat reduction and aerobic conditioning.A complete fat reduction workout! This video integrates all of the elements recommended for a complete workout and includes innovative anti-gravity precision toning and firming techniques.System Requirements:Running Time: 90 Min. Color.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS UPC: 071083559860 Manufacturer No: 5598-6