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Winsor Pilates
- Thread starter tboman
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I traded for accelerated body conditioning and for the 20 minute ab tape. The ab tape is too fast, I think. The body condtioning is ok. For the money, I'd go w/ any of the Stott videos. I think the website is stott.com? Anyway, I think the quality of the Stott videos is better. They seem to be more traditonal pilates.
There's a similar post named Windsor Pilates- I think it's a page before the current list of topics.
I ordered this set since I saw it on TV and got sucked in. It comes with 3 tapes- instructional, 20-min workout and advanced.
The instructional video was helpful since it showed the basic moves that pilates is based on. But the 20-min tape did nothing for me. The advanced tape had some moves that worked the abs well, and some worked the hips. But the tape was just too long and slow in order to get that "burning" feeling in the muscles. I felt I could get a much better, time-effective workout by doing a Cathe strength video and a yoga tape for flexibility.
Needless to say, I returned the tapes today. I feel I could get a much better (and more fun) workout for that amount of money. This is just my opinion- some like these tapes. These can't be compared to Cathe!
I ordered this set since I saw it on TV and got sucked in. It comes with 3 tapes- instructional, 20-min workout and advanced.
The instructional video was helpful since it showed the basic moves that pilates is based on. But the 20-min tape did nothing for me. The advanced tape had some moves that worked the abs well, and some worked the hips. But the tape was just too long and slow in order to get that "burning" feeling in the muscles. I felt I could get a much better, time-effective workout by doing a Cathe strength video and a yoga tape for flexibility.
Needless to say, I returned the tapes today. I feel I could get a much better (and more fun) workout for that amount of money. This is just my opinion- some like these tapes. These can't be compared to Cathe!
I really enjoy Pilates, but just couldn't handle the Winsor set. I bought the first 5 tapes based on rave reviews from so many people. I can't cope with the ssslllloooowwww pace she has. Mari goes in to such incredible detail on how to position your body - and she does it on EVERY single tape, for EVERY single exercise!!! So - it takes a minute or more to get into position, then you do the exercise for 30 seconds before spending another minute getting into posiition for another exercise. I think that is very valuable for a beginners tape, but once you have been doing pilates for a while, it gets to be REALLY old!!!! I would much prefer to do Breakthru pilates, Stott, or Karen Voight. I was bored to tears with Mari....