A 48-minute workout based on Pilates and ballet moves to give your body both tone and flexibility. Lara Hudson instructs.

Advanced beginning through intermediate exercisers. Although the moves look simple, they're not — you may be surprised at how many of these exercises challenge you! You will need an exercise band (included with the DVD), or 1 to 3 pound dumbbells, and a mat.

This blend of Pilates, ballet and resistance training is really like 4 workouts in one. After a simple warm-up you start on the mat with 17 minutes of Pilates-based moves and then there is an 18-minute ballet-style workout that offers you both balance work and toning. You can either use the included exercise band or a pair of light dumbbells — your choice actually changes the overall feel of the workout quite a bit. You get a little more lower body toning overall with the band, but your upper body is more challenged with the weights. If you want to, you can use the band for one segment, and weights for the other. However you decide to do this DVD, Lara Hudson gives you solid cueing, which is important for the unusual exercises that you find here. Although some of them will be familiar to you if you've exercised to other Pilates or ballet workouts (and it really helps to have done so), more often than not, Hudson offers a variation that you haven't seen before. If you're bored with your workouts and want something interesting for your lighter days, this is one to try.

 

 

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