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• Format: NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1558800174
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,124 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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71 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent tape for all exercisers, February 23, 2002

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Kyra Sedgwick "gagensydney" (Fort Lauderdale, FL United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Super Callanetics [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a wonderful tape. Callanetics is one type of exercise that will produce remarkable changes in your body is a very short amount of time. I prefer this tape to the regular Callanetics video program, because the regular Callentics tape leaves out a few exercises that are in the one hour program from Callan Pickney's book, "Callanetics: Ten years younger in 10 Hours". Even tho the Super Callanetics tape is quite advanced, it is no problem at all to fast-foward thru the exercises that you are not ready for and only do the ones that you are strong enough to do.
The video is a little dated when it comes to dress/make-up, etc., but the production is good and easy to follow. The exercises themselves are very unique: core exercises that focus on building strength thru tiny, gentle movements in the area you are working. Relaxing new-age music plays in the background as you exercise, but is never annoying. About a half-hour at the beginning of the tape is Callan herself demonstrating the exercises on the tape. The rest of the tape is the workout itself, which takes about an hour and 10 mn to complete if you do the entire thing.
I would highly recommend purchasing this video over the regular program along with the book aforementioned, and working your way up. The production quality is better than the original video and the workout more closely follows the one laid out for you in Callan's book.

43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget Pilates, Callanetics is the best.........PERIOD!!!, July 18, 2002

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Elizebeth Neumann (Seattle, wa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super Callanetics [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I started doing callentics when I was 16 with my moms book. I have scoliosis and it has never botherd my back. Then I bought the tapes and loved it even more! Super callanetics is my favorite because it includes more of the excersizes that are found in the book and you get faster results.

Just watching the tape would fool you, youd never guesse how sore these movements make you or what kind of results you will get. I have done yoga and the series of pilates tapes from "the method" and to be honest they dont even come close. I did the method tapes for 2 years and never saw the results that I get from 2 weeks of callanetics! Youll still want to do some form of cardio to burn fat, but you will get smaller and trimmer if you do this alone.

If you want to reshape your body and increase your flexibility then callanetics is the workout for you. You wont be dissapointed.

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Takin' it up a notch!, March 3, 2003

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Michelle Lee (Bloomfield, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super Callanetics [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am a true Callanetics believer, and I started out with the original hour-long program, singing its praises the whole way through. It effectively tightened my muscles and, being a girl who thought my rear end would ALWAYS be flat, lifted me in places I NEVER thought possible. Who needs plastic surgery?

Well, I recently stepped it up with Super Callanetics, and it feels like the first day I started the original program. Sore all over! This new program features Callan and only 4 or 5 students, usually only seen 2 at a time. These are her "expert" students, and they demonstrate each exercise perfectly. It makes you miss the "class" format of the first tape, simply because these expert students make you feel like you're not doing the exercises hard enough, long enough, or far enough. But, it's good motivation to work harder. Unfortunately, Callan doesn't participate as she does in the original tape (she just provides commentary and praise), but her students do a fine job.

The program itself is an expansion of the original, introducing new exercises and doubling the reps on some of the old ones (i.e., 20 plies rather than 10, 20 pelvic rotations in each direction, 200 counts for the inner thigh squeeze....torture!!!). The new exercises I find somewhat awkward, but it may just be because they're new to me. There are a couple new ab exercises that will guarantee wear you out, and by the time you get to hip and buttock exercise #5 (yes, I know there are only 2 in the original), your legs are shaking.

Essentially, if you are proficient in the original program, you will still feel like a novice for this program. It is quite challenging, and I look forward to actually finishing the whole thing...I've never had to take so many breaks in my life! :)

Note: The first half hour is instructional, as Callan and her students demonstrate each of the exercises briefly before going through the entire workout completely. Be sure to watch this first, because the workout goes from one exercise to another without time for explanations. Also, followers of the original Callanetics program will be thankful for the faster counter at the top of the screen....counts of 100 go by much more quickly in Super Callanetics.