Callanetics - the recipe for a fit, beautiful body

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uli, Feb 28, 1:05am
Uh huh - that is SUPER Callanetics - I struggle with the normal version :)
millna, Mar 1, 9:01am
i have the look 10 years younger DVD, it is great
jed, Mar 1, 7:58pm
Well you guys have got me interested.I have just bought auction 356902759 A book Complete Callanetics.Have been checking it out on line as well.Uli maybe you should start up a class for us in Whangarei :-)
uli, Mar 2, 2:10am
yeah - sure :)

Did you know that the YWCA did some Callanetics classes last year in Rust Ave? Not sure if they were the old school (by Callan herself) or the newer versions - which include cardio - Callan would turn in her grave if she knew! However she is still very much alive luckily!
leesil, Mar 3, 2:12pm
i've got the video (haven't used it in 5 years though lol)- the leotards and hairstyles are outdated and the background music makes you feel like you’re in an elevator but the exercises are really effective. Does someone want to swap with me for the book - i don't have a video player anymore :(
la-shiss, Mar 27, 8:27am
bump, have just found this thread and Im a callanetics addict and have had the video for around 12 years, have done other exercise over the years but keep coming back to callanetics, its amazing the pull in that you get so so fast. I do it every day and the ones I just dont like are the pelvic scoop and rotations.
uli, Apr 7, 12:36am
So bedazzledjewels - how is it going!
:)
guest, Jul 7, 6:44pm
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jam-sam, Sep 22, 9:59pm
Bumping this one back up. I am a new convert too.I was fortunate enough to find one of the old books in an op shop for $2, liked the look of the exercises so bought it.I worked in the gym industry for many years and had heard of Callanetics but never tried it before.All I can say is WOW!I love it and the results are amazing.I have never had the ab burn that I get from these exercises and would not have thought that such tiny pulses could be so effective.I got my hubby to take 'before and after' pics to see the difference so it will be interesting to see how I am after 19 hours like the woman in the book.
uli, Nov 4, 5:12am
So how is everybody doing - or not doing :)
uli, Dec 10, 4:44am
If so - I would love to see you doing it ellie!
elliehen, Dec 10, 5:10am
I'll wait a while, thanks uli, to see if Callanetics helps yours :)
uli, Dec 10, 7:18am
Callanetics has helped me to get out of a wheelchair and walking again - what did it do for you ellie - or what did it do for you motorbo!
motorbo, Dec 10, 7:30am
thats fantastic Uli, im pleased to hear it and am more than happy to have a normal conversation.but dont belittle me.im a good person as much as you believe you are one too .and no thats not a put down.rather im saying stop putting me down.exercise has done wonders for me .am pleased it has for you
vmax2, Dec 10, 9:19am
That's fantastic uli.I bought a callanetics video 2nd hand years ago.I used it for a while and enjoyed it, but it was very hard.I really liked the idea of it - toning and not doing cardio which I hate.It did make a difference to me at the time but I lost motivation.
millna, Dec 12, 9:59pm
Thanks very much, this is just what I am looking for, something that is low impact and actually targets musle groups.

I have been glued to the couch for months and months after a back injury that was mis-dioginosed, and want to get moving again, now that I know what the prob is. (i have never been very active, but up until 6 months ago I use to at least walk the kids to and from school)

I hope to be walking the kids to school again next year. i really hope
uli, Dec 12, 11:00pm
Good luck millna - If I could do it - then so can you :)

Just do as much as you can - even 1 or 2 or 3 repeats is fine - then rest a day then repeat - maybe 4 or 5 repeats then . and over 1 year of doing this you will be surprised how much you can achieve.

Never ever give up!
Download some of the videos with Callan and you will be good to go :)

Good luck - and if you feel like it - come back in a few months time and share :)
millna, Dec 13, 7:57pm
i just bought the book. looking forward to giving it a go
millna, Dec 13, 8:50pm
uli, Dec 18, 10:11pm
After much interest in the low carb thread here is the recipe to astrong, fit, beautiful body - Callanetics exercises.

Some of us are doing them since a while, others have just started, so this is a support thread for all Callanetics users - and yes it is a recipe for success - so it is in the recipe section :)

This program is so remarkably effective that just one hour of Callanetics exercises has the tightening and lifting value of 20 hours of aerobics. Don't be fooled by the simplicity of the exercises. They are really hard to do properly.

So if you are keen google, buy a book or watch a video (there are lots of them online from the 1980's and 1990's) and then try for yourself. Go slow, get the postures absolutely right, even if you can only do 3 or 5 repeats, then work on the number of repeats.

Now let us hear your stories :)

http://www.callanetics.com/method.php
kristy21, Dec 18, 10:32pm
Thanks Uli and Craytail for starting the thread. Will be great to hear how everyone is doing.
I'm still waiting for the book, anxiously checking the mail daily! Hopefully it comes before I go away because I would love to be doing it while away.
I have been only doing the arm exercises as Im focusing on toning my chicken wings, and I do weights for this area daily - butthe callanetic exercises have a much larger impact than weights, in terms of feeling it afterwards.
I am going to start a weekly photo log when I return to see if I can see the toning changes. I'm very excited.
I will continue with walking and pilates too, as I enjoy pilates as I do it with a swiss ball and find it effective also. Although my ball just got a hole in it yesterday so will have to get a new one over the holidays! Merry Christmas and good luck to everyone.
uli, Dec 19, 5:22am
I am not sure at which exercise you "poke your bum out like a waterskiier"! If the kitchen table doesn't work use the backrest of your chair (in case you really have to hold on you might want to have someone sitting on the chair lol) - tell me how the exercise is called or on what page of the book and I think of some other ideas. I just went through the house and looked at the furniture for good ideas :)
I too have found the back problems being the first that seemed to get better, it must be that nice mix of stretching and strengthening that does it.
bedazzledjewels, Dec 19, 6:58am
Like Kristy, I'm waiting on the book, but from the library. An hour and a half! Cripes, that doesn't sound like me Uli! Lol!
Do you do these exercises quickly or slowly!
uli, Dec 19, 11:25pm
I have only just tried doing that exercise - my legs are not good enough for those kinds of exercises yet. And as I would lose balance at that height anyway I tried it out with a heavy armchair. I put the foot onto the chair and grabbed the armrests - that worked ok (at my low level exercise).
I guess once I get my leg high enough I would use the sink, as that has a narrow edge (where the basin is cut out) where I can hang onto. I use it for some other exercises I do where its important that the thing doesn't move.
Just scoot around the house and see what you've got that would work. There is bound to be something :)
uli, Dec 22, 9:23pm
No there is no alternative to hanging. She says that it is not essential though, as most people haven't got a bar fixed to the ceiling anyway .

So she reckons once you know you are going to do the exercises for longer (past the initial excitement) to then think about a room in the house to have a couple of bars permanently affixed in a strong enough manner to take the weight. One bar for hanging and one or two along the walls for the other exercises.

If you have a covered deck you could affix a bar between two of the posts holding the roof up maybe! Or have a look in the shed or carport!