Louise Solomon's Yoga and Pilates Workout DVD

A combination of yoga and pilates offers a great workout... Customize your workout for the fullest range possible including posture improvement, muscle sculpture, balance, clarity, vitality, structure, and grace.

Customer Review: This workout does everything it promises

Seven months ago, I was exercising religiously with high impact workouts... Then a bookcase fell on my lower leg/ankle... I could still walk, but high impact aerobics were definitely out of the question... For about six months, I didn't do any exercising at all.

My muscles got weaker, and I gained weight... I decided I had to do something to get back in shape, so I started looking for lower impact workouts... This one sounded good, and the price was unbeatable, so I decide to give it a try... I am SO glad I did!

For the past month, I have been doing this workout at least 3 times a week... My muscle tone is almost back to where it was when I quit exercising, and I have lost over 5 pounds without drastically changing my eating habits (in fact, I tend to eat a little more than I used to - my metabolism must be speeding up)... The clothes that were once tight on me are now falling off. Even my injured ankle has been strengthened by the workout... I am now able to do some of the high impact workouts I was doing (although not quite as strenuously as I used to).

Louise Solomon promises that you will lose weight and tone muscle through this workout, and she certainly does not disappoint... Plus, this a great way to relax after a stressful day at work... I recommend it to anyone who wants to be healthier.

Customer Review: Relaxing and Taxing

I agree with everyone else... I love this DVD... I did some yoga in my twenties, so I am little familiar with it... But I was totally unfamiliar with pilates... I am also no longer in my twenties, but overweight and out of shape... So I was looking for an exercise program that I could actually do and one without a lot of jerky/straining movements.

The pace on this is good , I never feel rushed... It may, at first, even appear easy, but some of the poses/exercises are rather challenging... I am still working on doing all of them correctly, especially those in the second workout.

There are two workouts... The first one uses bands and is mainly pilates, the second one incorporates more yoga and less band work, only a few of those exercises use bands... I have found I really enjoy using a band, it enables me to do some exercises I might not have been able to do otherwise and it also offers resistance... Resistance seems to speed up the toning process.

Note that no bands are included, so I recommend the Gaiam bands... After using this dvd a month, I have found that I am standing straighter, it seems my back has more strength, and my stomach is flatter... I also feel more energized... You can't ask for much more than that. More Information