Welcome to CRUNCH Fitness! Get the best of both worlds and the most for your effort with this winning combination: calorie-burning cardio along with Pilates-based toning. Impact safe yet so effective, it maximizes your fat-burning potential. You’ll start with easy-to-follow cardio that skillfully blends dance and low impact cardio with standing Pilates-inspired moves into one routine to challenge your aerobic fitness, improve your posture and put you more in touch with the power of your “core.” Then, kick off your shoes and hit the floor to tighten and tone your favorite body parts, including abs, butt and thighs. Get long, lean, sexy muscles with our series of Pilates mat exercises, sure to give you a year-round bikini body! For faster results than Pilates alone, this combo workout can help you sculpt your body AND burn fat! For all fitness levels. A mat or rug and bare feet are highly recommended for the Pilates floorwork.”Calorie burning cardio plus Pilates-based toning,” promises this 40-minute Crunch program, which combines Pilates-influenced standing and mat exercises. In the cardio section, instructor Ellen Barrett uses Pilates terminology (e.g. “standing imprint”) as she adapts Pilates moves to rather repetitious standing exercises–mostly squats and leg lift variations–which work the core muscles of the abdominals and back as well as legs, thighs, and buttocks. The moves are sometimes slow and rarely “travel,” so your heart rate might not stay elevated, although your lower body and core muscles will get a good workout. The toning section consists of Pilates mat exercises which work abs, back, thighs, and buttocks. One exerciser demonstrates easier modifications. The background music is dominated by a lively drummer who keeps the workout upbeat and enthusiastic. –Joan Price
Buy “Crunch – Fat Burning Pilates” For Only $4.28
March 8, 2010
#1
Here is an important fact: when someone first starts learning Pilates, it is NOT possible to burn fat. There’s just too much to learn at the beginning of your Pilates studies, so your heart rate and respiraiton rate do not have an opportunity to rise above certain levels. Even for $11 plus change, this video cannot achieve what its title indicates.
This is just a Pilates mat video; it does not include Pilates equipment. The Pilates equipment helps your muscles work more deeply and vigorously (when first learning the method) until you understand the method well enough to complete an intermediate or advanced mat routine. When you can perform an intermediate or advanced Pilates mat workout proficiently, THEN you can get your heart rate up and gradually burn fat.
After giving this DVD a close look, I have to say that Fat Burning Pilates cannot deliver on the claim explicit in its title.
March 8, 2010
#2
The production is good. But as a studio owner and certified instructor from the New York School, I see a growing division between traditional Pilates (the way Joseph Pilates originally created his method) and variations of traditional Pilates. This DVD is a depiction of nontraditional Pilates. The exercise orders are not Joseph Pilates’ original exercise orders, there is not a seamless flow between exercises, and there is music playing. Joseph Pilates did not play music because each exercises has its own rhythm, dynamic, and tempo to be determined by the instructor during a given lesson.
It is important to protect the public interest by labeling products properly. Most other professions have a state licensing board to protect the public interest, but the art and practice of the Pilates method does not. To properly describe this video, perhaps video producers should call this workout a Pilates-based exercise routine.
March 8, 2010
#3
Fat Burning Pilates is a combination of aerobic exercises and Pilates exercises. Pilates professionals with extensive Pilates method training know that Pilates IS aerobic when you practice intermediate-advanced levels with the right energy and rhythm. So, why dilute the power of real Pilates with various exercises that Joseph Pilates never practiced? Yes, it is certainly good to cross-train and enjoy various physical activities. But cross-training during a single Pilates workout will not get you the full and excellent benefits of the Pilates method.
If you practice real Pilates with the energy and discipline that Joseph Pilates taught his students, then you will be ready to go on and do some aerobic activity after your workout. Or vice versa, you can do aerobics then Pilates.
There are principles involved when practicing the Pilates method. If you ecclectically mix real Pilates with other excercise techniques, then you will forfeit many of the great rewards of Joseph Pilates’ method.
March 8, 2010
#4
I have alot of dvd/fitness videos and this by far was returned before I opened it. I borrowed it from the library and after 3 minutes shut it off… The dvd had a good concept but I don’t believe it was anything close to true ‘pilates’… The outfits were CHEESY and just enough to cover the private parts etc.. the models in my opinion did not look really fit and the outfits did no justice… I was surprised of the poor production on this crunch dvd..usually I like their product… Don’t waste your hard earned money on this one… I don’t usually write reviews but had to step up on this one..
March 8, 2010
#5
This was my first work out dvd and man do I regret ever spending money on it. The cardio is horrible, i didn’t break a sweat at all. The foot work made me pull something in my leg so but yet after that i continued doing it because i thought well its probboly just a muscle getting used to working out again but no. It’s hard being 16 trying to get fit because you need way more cardio. This dvd is called “fat burning” pilates, my only question is wheres the fat burning? the abbs part is a killer but besides that its not worth it. Your better off with Crunchs’s Dance Party dvd, now thats fun and makes you sweat.