Has anyone really changed their shape by doing Callanetics? Sounds too good to be true.

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Because I've bought the DVD because I'm ever hopeful!

I can't complain about my weight, BMI is and has nearly always been 22 and although I'd like to be thinner I realise that with my big bone structure it's never really going to happen. But I reckon that with the right kind of exercise I might be able to change my shape a bit (thinner thighs and flatter tummy would be good).

My youngest is now old enough that I should have long ago done something about the tummy - it's not huge but as I'm flat chested I feel a flat tummy would enhance my whole figure.

So has anyone done Callanetics and is it as effective as it claims to be? Or can you recommend any other good exercise for reshaping?

Thanks

Ok tell me exactly which book and/or DVD to buy to slim my blasted thighs down. Have reached a good weight but my thighs are so chunk still! Thanks

I'm doing the 10 years younger in 10 hours DVD, which is a one-hour session. I haven't used any others so can't compare I'm afraid.

Expensive on Amazon! I chucked out my big Callenetics books when we moved

It is expensive, but cheaper than a personal trainer or gym membership (my logic anyway!)

I have some VHS tapes. Аnd a player, which is a bit embarrassing, might give it a go again, it will kill me though.

I will scour the charity shops forthwith!

I would look in c shops, i had the video once but that and the player are long gone.
I use the 20 min workout book.
I think the vid is very good to show you how to move, but you can see some stuff on you tube!
I think it is popular again because madonna a gwenyth have admitted to doing it.

You could ask friends or on free cycle...

Im going after thighs next, all the books have a good selection of excercises, well those i have seen.

Oh I need the 20 min book!

Yes 20 mins is enouh, i just extended the problem area and it takes about 45 plus 15 staring in mirror LOL

Sad she died they are very effective.

It doesnt have the great before and after photos the big book has. Plus mines a bit musty ( charity shop)

Oh its called callanetics countdown 30 days to a beautiful body.

Thats 30 x 20 min workouts!

Fab will have a look for those thanks.

I just ordered the Quick DVDs on Ebay. I have problem thighs and butt and a bit flabby on the tum. I've started running again, but need something else for toning. Hoping I will be presentable in togs this summer and hoping it will help with the cellulite ponders what dh -sees in me--

How much was it on ebay please?

I've been doing about 20 minutes a day - stomach one day, arse the next, weird pelvic moves another, and I think I can see a difference in the arse area.

My stomach is sticking out more, if anything, but I think she said somewhere in the book that this might happen. Hmmm...

I cannot do a single 'open and close' unless I drag my ginormo tree-trunk legs across the carpet. But I shall persevere!

Please remind me, what was the open and close?
It's been years in my case.

'Open and close' involves hanging on to something above your head - mantlepiece, or the like, if you don't have Callan's handy ballet studio ? raising your legs off the floor a couple of inches, and opening and closing them. It's a bugger.

lol at "it's a bugger". It gets easier, I promise.

I don't have anything high enough to hold on to, so I sit with my back against the sofa and hold on to the bottom of the sofa. It's enough to keep me balanced. I tried hanging off the chin up bar and attempting it, but that was a bit too over-ambitious

I have the big old book, complete with before and after photos and the advanced exercises that I try to do now.

Am off to do my hour of Callanetics now, first time in a week..

Oh yes!
Recall exercise now, not sure if I was ever able to do it...

valiumred They were US$18.99 each with about $6 shipping for 3 (to Canada). I think shipping to UK I checked was around $6 for the first, then a bit less for the next item.

Callanetics Quick

Thanks! She was 72 when she died but I can't find out how by googling.

Found mine.
It says original callanetics.
And I also discovered my old copy of Lose Inches with Lotte Berk.
That was a killer.

She died of cancer :-(
I did another hour of digging last night off for a 30 min callanetics work out now. ( before i have to play lego)

My book did say your stomach may stick out, also that the goosh moves up to your lower back before dissapearing...nice.

Open and close, not in this book but i do remember the horror. Is it an advanced or is she expecting you to drag your legs for a while?

Anyone measured yet?

I haven't measured yet but my jeans are noticeably looser after only 4 hours. It's very addictive!

Oh, just seen this. I'm a huge fan. Have an ancient VHS tape & try and do it a couple of times a week. I think it is amazing. I have a very bad back - and one ruined knee and Callanetics works so well for me, because it is zero impact & because it is so good for core strength, like Pilates.
It definitely makes a difference to my hips & thighs - elongates the muscle & makes them look so much smoother.

I need to do this again, I had a really bad accident a few years again am now the unfit test and most untoned I have ever been