Product Details

• Actors: Suzanne Bowen
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: ANCHOR BAY
• DVD Release Date: September 4, 2007
• Run Time: 54 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000S1MM84
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,704 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

About the Instructor: Suzanne Bowen is an AFAA certified Group fitness and practical pilates instructor from Nashville, TN and has been a fitness professional for almost 10 years.

Product Description

Includes five 10-minute workouts to shape your body:
* Upper Body Pilates - In this segment, the band really takes Pilates to the next level! You'll chisel and firm your arms, shoulders, back more dramatically than you ever could with non-equipment based mat Pilates. * Lower Body Pilates - The toning band will tone, lift and re-shape your lower body like nothing else. Once you try it, you'll see how adding this simple tool to your Pilates workout can lead to dramatically better results! * Pilates for Abs - This workout is an innovative take on classic Pilates exercises designed to do one thing: flatten your tummy! As a bonus you'll also strengthen your powerhouse and sculpt definition in your abs. * Total Body Pilates - Use your band to enhance this calorie burning, body sculpting challenge. The workout uses ultra-efficient compound movements to give you MORE results in LESS time. * Pilates for Flexibility - This dynamic stretching segment will leave you feeling fantastic. Keep using this segment and your entire Pilates practice will noticeably improve!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, challenging, and fun!, August 28, 2007

By	SapphireMoon (USA) - See all my reviews

This is hands-down one of the best Pilates DVDs I have ever tried and exactly what I'd been looking for. I like the 10 Minute Solution series in general and have both Pilates DVDs by Lara Hudson. However, I feel that "10 Minute Solution: Slim & Sculpt" Pilates lead by instructor, Suzanne Bowen (who gives excellent demonstration by the way) far outshines both of Lara's for several reasons. For one, her movements are overall safer and much simpler, generally sticking to more traditional Pilates routines - and it's far more effective. I definitely felt this working my entire body by incorporating the use of the Pilates resistance band, which offers a very similar effect to Pilates machines. The workout is divided into five 10 minute segments - each for the upper body, lower body, abdominals, a total body routine, and a stretch - which can effectively be combined or done separately. This is also one of the few Pilates DVDs on the market that is on the higher end challenge-wise, that is equally fun to do! I can tell I'll be using this one a lot. Highly recommended!

Rating: Excellent

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Pilates addition, September 7, 2007

By	R. Glasure (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is another winner for the 10 Minute Solutions series and another wonderful pilates addition. I cannot say how much I love the 10 Minute series, which allows me to workout for as little or as long as my schedule allows, plus provides effective workouts and this one is no different! I loved the other pilates dvds in this series, but this one is unique in that you use a resistance band with it, which I love. It gives an added "umph" to get toned even quicker with the band. The moves are very effective and unique. The instructor, Suzanne Bowen, gives wonderful cuing, very helpful in describing the moves before they are done and gives good modifications when possible. She is easy to follow and listen to. The different workouts, each targeted to a different area of the body and then a stretching segment, really are fun and get the job of toning and slimming the body done! I am very excited to have added this to my collection!

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 10 Minute Solution delivers again :-P, August 22, 2007

By	Little Miss Cutey (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

As always, you get five different 10 minute segments here and a 6 foot resistance band. I like the fact that you can do either 10 minutes only, or close to an hour if you put them all together. Everyone can do at least 10 minutes and then before you know it, you could be at the end and have done 50 minutes.
In each of the segments, you work specific body parts like lower body and upper, total body, abs and a stretch. You can do these in any order you like and that keeps it interesting and fresh. With the band, you can hold it in different positions to give yourself more of a challenge (like making it shorter to up the resistance).
Suzanne Bowen is a good instructor and she is friendly and cues really well. This workout is fun and easy enough to do and I especially love the stretch. I like doing this whole workout in different orders each time (keeping the stretch till the end though) to not let myself get bored. I'm really enjoying this (I got it at another online source) and always look forward to new workouts from them.