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Summary: Best Pilates Workout...Ever!
Review: All I can say is...I want more! I would like to ask if there are (or will be in the future) any additional CD's for intermediate and/or advanced mat workouts. (I have been doing pilates for years, and recently purchased your "Pilates Body Kit" and love the 22 minute intermediate mat workout CD, but wanted another one, or one a little more advanced.) I need another CD before I wear this one out!I love the CD's with the verbal cue's! It is a wonderful product and I would love to see more. Keep up the great work Brooke!!
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Summary: Pilates par excellance! by Brooke Siler.
Review: As a beginner to Pilates, I find Brooke Siler's books and methods easy to understand and follow ... I travel a lot and most hotels do not supply a DVD/VHS player in their rooms. Even if they did, personally I would stay away from the DVD/VHS versions of Pilates. Unlike other workout routines, Pilates is not just a physical one. It is also a mental exercise. Watching a video while trying to concentrate on the interaction of one's body, mind, and Pilates would be too distracting for me. The other advantage of the audio book is that using my portable CD-player, I have the freedom to take my Pilates outdoors to the park or to the beach. Well done Ms. Siler for giving us the best of Pilates and the mobility to take our Pilates with us, no matter where we go. end.
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Summary: This IS a good buy
Review: As a Pilates student for the past two years, I find this kit really helpful. I take both mat and apparatus classes and the flash cards are really helpful for me when I'm practicing at home. I'm not sure sure I'd recommend these to an absolute beginner, but if you don't live near some guild certified instructors, I'd say both Brooke Siler's book and this set would be steps in the right direction. Her direction on breathing and the drawings on the cards are great diagrams for those needing visual information because form is really important in Pilates.
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Summary: This IS a good buy
Review: As a Pilates student for the past two years, I find this kit really helpful. I take both mat and apparatus classes and the flash cards are really helpful for me when I'm practicing at home. I'm not sure sure I'd recommend these to an absolute beginner, but if you don't live near some guild certified instructors, I'd say both Brooke Siler's book and this set would be steps in the right direction. Her direction on breathing and the drawings on the cards are great diagrams for those needing visual information because form is really important in Pilates.
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Summary: I'm hooked.....
Review: Brooke Siler does it again!! After reading her book The Pilates Body I couldn't wait for more to come from Brooke- The Pilates Body Kit was like having Brooke right alongside of you- just like a personal trainer as you perform the moves even down to the breathing. The flash cards help to visualize exactly what you should do and how to stabilize your core for proper technique and perfect form which is one of the reasons I love it- Brooke focuses on perfect form in all her moves. The workbook that comes along with it is great to jot down your progress and how you feel when you're done. I highly recommend The Pilates Body Kit.
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Summary: The first of its kind... again
Review: Brooke was one of the first pilates instructors to produce a guide to pilates for the general public. "The Pilates Body" is in my opinion the standard setting guide against which later guides should be judged. Her latest offering is also standard setting.
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Summary: Buy a Book or DVD, this doesn't work
Review: Don't bother buying this kit. It just doesn't work. If you are starting working with Pilates you will be lost. The positions on the cards are not explained well. That makes very difficult to understand the rhythm of the CD. For something like pilates you need good and detailed graphics or a video to clearly explain the positions and sequence of the exercises. I gave it 2 starts instead of 1 because Brooke Siler seems to know her stuff. She just need a better way to communicate it.
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Summary: With All Due Respect
Review: For the reviewers who make their opinions fact, I must say that this is really a subjective topic and depends on how you learn. I found that Ms. Siler's kit has already started to really work for me (I've had it only three weeks) and I have given it to others who feel the same. I like that I don't have to watch a video while I'm working out and I can easily follow Ms. Siler's instructions and then check the cards if necessary. I love that it's portable and I really feel it's well organized and I've used it more than any of the videos piled in my den.
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If the new rule is to make our opinions fact than let me say definitively THIS PRODUCT WORKS!
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Summary: The Pilates Body Kit: Interactive Fitness Program to Strengt
Review: I am a 34-year-old mother, wife, scientist and prior military paratrooper. I have used weights, aerobics, step aerobics, cycling, videos, and several other workout programs. Without a doubt Pilates is my favorite and produces the most evident results without pain and in a short amount of time. I mostly loved Brooke Silar's CD workout kit because it is very similar to the Pilates mat workout sessions. In Pilates you do not have an instructor working out with you. Pilates instructors do just that, instruct, and Brooke gives you the instruction and technique without your having to strain to look at your TV screen. You can concentrate on your technique, breathing and posture while listening to Brooks' instruction. Believe it or not she even comments on common ill postures like, keep your shoulders down, pull in your belly button and such. I love the CD collection and her book as well! I can't wait for her Advanced CD kit!!!
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Summary: Pleased with results!
Review: I am following Brooke Silers Intermediate Level workout on CD and pleased to say I am BACK IN MY JEANS and looking fabulous again! I also like the fact that she provides a book to record my progress. I no longer follow my Videos, this is it1 I am waiting for the advancec CD!
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