Product Details

• Actors: Tracey Mallett
• Directors: Atp
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Razor Digital Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 14, 2006
• Run Time: 70 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000HT3S76
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,366 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Razor Digital Ent Release Date: 11/14/2006

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good workout :-0, June 9, 2007

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Little Miss Cutey (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tracey Mallett Renew You Sleek and Lean (DVD)

This is my second dvd of Tracey's and I think it's quite good. It's a bit of a challenge (if you do it from start to finish right through, then it's around 80 minutes long). It will help sculpt you from head to toe using Pilates, ballet and jazz dance.
You'll work almost every muscle in your body, but Tracey is encouraging which helps a lot. It's a very effective routine (I was sore for a day or two afterward) that's enjoyable to do. You start off with ballet stretches and then onto power yoga sculpting. Then the rest of the workout is body part specific and it uses ballet, yoga and pilates to do this. She is a knowledgable instructor and she cues well. It's filmed outdoors that always makes you feel good to see real scenery than a studio. It's more motivating when you know Summer is coming up.
This is probably more for intermediate to advanced exercisers - if you aren't familiar with these styles of moves it will be tougher going and you need to be somewhat flexible already. I find this workout good for someone who already works out a bit and it's fun and enjoyable to do. I'm looking forward to seeing results. I've done it twice now and I certainly feel better already.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great video from Tracey, December 1, 2006

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Kim Tan "Kim" (CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tracey Mallett Renew You Sleek and Lean (DVD)

Wonderful workout concentrating on the lower body, I especially like the ballet bar with easy and very effective exercises.
The workouts are a great combination of Pilates, yoga and ballet. This is a nice change from Tracey's other workouts, she's has such a nice way of inspiring you to do better. Of course she looks amazing!
The first workout is a warm up and then in to ballet lower body workout which is perfect for the beginner and enough to challenge the advance exerciser.
the next two mini sections around 15 minutes each is a total body floor Pilates, dance inspired movements which have helped to tone my midsection and legs.
Great Video well worth the money.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Five workout segments combining ballet, yoga, and Pilates for a full-body workout, February 20, 2011

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Beth Cholette "doctor_beth" (Upstate NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tracey Mallett Renew You Sleek and Lean (DVD)

In this DVD, Pilates instructor and personal trainer Tracey Mallett offers a full-body workout which blends various styles, including ballet, yoga, and Pilates. She notes during her introduction that as a busy mother of two herself, she has created this workout so that it can be used in parts for when you are short on time. The Main Menu of the DVD offers the following options: Introduction to Renew You--Full Workout--Pick Your Workout (chapters)--Bonus Features (a breakdown of abs work and trailers of other workouts)--Credits. Tracey is exercising outdoors on location at a classic hotel, and she is joined by two background exercisers, Stephanie and Broni (who shows modifications for some of the exercises). I have broken down each segment of the workout in detail below.

Warm-Up: Revitalizing Yoga (7 minutes)
This entire segment is performed seated in a chair. The moves focus mainly on warming up the spine--e.g., side bends, body rolls, contractions. Tracey concludes the warm-up with some brief legs work (maintaining a "c-curve" position with the spine) and hip flexor stretches.

Ballet Barre (14.5 minutes)
Tracey and crew use a chair for this segment. The initial moves--which include plies in parallel, first, and second positions--feel fairly easy, as Tracey doesn't do many repetitions, and she keeps switching from side to side. However, she gradually adds a bit more intensity: balance holds, side lunges with lifts, rear lifts, and rear attitude lift. She finishes with a side leg lift plus standing crunch to work the legs AND the obliques.

Power Yoga (13 minutes)
In this section, Tracey and her friends have their mats placed perpendicular to the viewer. Tracey basically cues two full sun salutation sequences, moving at an unhurried pace. For the first round, she includes modified plank (on knees), baby cobra, warrior 1, warrior 2, and side angle pose (which she refers to as triangle). For the second round, Tracey again does a modified plank, baby cobra, warrior 2, and side angle, but this time, she also adds in wide-legged forward bend, including a twist here. She returns to downward dog and jumps forward to standing to finish.

Abs and Buns (19.5 minutes)
This challenging segment begins with some Pilates-inspired abs work; Tracey includes the single leg stretch and a version of the Pilates frog exercise. Moving to a side-lying position, she performs a series of leg extensions which target both the core and the glutes. From a seated position, Tracey does the pretzel, a move borrowed from barre-type classes such as Lotte Berk, made quite challenging here by using no arms. She concludes this segment with the Pilates teaser, both 1-legged and the full version.

Upper Body Sculpt (15 minutes)
Although the menu lists this segment as Upper Body Sculpt, Tracey calls it the upper body and back section, which seems more appropriate. She begins in a prone position for a series of various back extensions. After a brief rest in child's pose, Tracey transitions to down dog and then to plank. From here, she does several sets of push-ups Pilates style: she starts with 1, comes to standing, goes back down for 2, comes back up, etc., for a total of 4. Additional work for arms includes table, triceps dips, and reverse plank. A few very brief (about 2 minutes) stretches conclude the workout; these include seated butterfly stretch, seated wide-legged forward bend, and a triceps stretch.

Overall, I liked this workout, but I wound up feeling that Tracey tried to do a bit too much with it, especially at almost 70 minutes long. The yoga segment in particular felt completely unnecessary; it's not a bad segment, it just didn't seem in sync with the barre/Pilates focus of the rest of the workout. And while I liked the short back work in the back and arms segment (most of us don't focus enough on counteracting all of the spinal extension that we do--e.g., from sitting, driving, working at the computer, etc.), the arms work felt pretty insignificant to me, so I think that entire segment could have probably been left out as well.

But, I DID think that Tracey did a great job with both the lower body and the abs work. Although the standing barre work didn't feel that tough, it kind of sneaks up on you, and I think if I had done the Abs & Buns segment immediately after the Ballet Barre (i.e., instead of with the yoga in-between), I definitely would have felt even more of a challenge. So, in the end, although I might not use this entire DVD, I am still glad I purchased it, and I would recommend it to others.