Winsor Pilates DVD Review: Caribbean Workout: Pilates (2005) Review

I recently bought this program and I'm really enjoying it. I like to do Pilates before my daily Yoga practice to warm up my core and to provide a different type of challenge than Yoga provides.

These programs remind me a lot of Yoga Zone's format in that they are about 22 minutes (Yoga Zones are about 20), they are set in a beautiful tropical location(Barbados) and the instruction is creative and fun to work with. The instructors have upbeat personalities without being "rah rah" and they are inspiring to workout with.

Jennifer Tilley is the lead instructor with Shelly McDonald following along and sometimes showing modifications.

I found these to be something that an experienced beginner in Pilates would be able to do. The routines have moderately challenging moments but are not overly intense overall so that they aren't intimidating to work with.

Either way, I'd highly recommend starting with Stott Pilates Basics (or something like that) to learn the principles of Pilates more in depth in order to stay safe and to learn where to focus your attention in Pilates.

I am more Intermediate/Advanced in Pilates but found these programs to be a joy to practice with. I love having this program (which was actually part of a very reasonably priced two DVD set, which altogether has 8-22 minute workouts) as a fun way to add variety into my Pilates practice.

These are taken from a TV program so there are commercial breaks which fade in and out from one segment to another, sometimes they are edited better than others, but honestly they didn't present any problem at all.

This is definitely the best Pilates buy I've made in terms of what you get for your money.

Still, if you want to get a really incredible, more classical program to use as part of your home Pilates practice, I'd also recommend Hilary Burnett's Intermediate DVD which is a 30 minute program that has the complete Intermediate Pilates series (as found in Alycea Ungaros "Pilates, Body In Motion") as well as several exercises from the Advanced Series.

Highly recommended!

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