DVD : Element: Ballet Conditioning
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0013131535198
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: ANCHOR BAY
Manufacturer: ANCHOR BAY
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: ANCHOR BAY
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 04, 2007
Running Time: 51 minutes
Sales Rank: 2653
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
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Product Description:
Ballet Dancers always have slender bodies that are both strong and lean with lovely proportion and gorgeous body lines. One of the greatest secrets to a dancer's body is ballet conditioning which focuses on all muscle groups. In this unique program your muscles will work smoothly in unison to create a long streamlined silhouette with flat abs a lean lower body and beautifully defined curves. Moving gracefully and fluidly through this series of exercises you will strengthen and stretch your way to a dancers body. Elise Gulan has over 18 years in dance education including Ballet Pointe Tap and Jazz. She was a principal soloist for the Virginia Ballet Company where she danced for seven years appearing in productions such as Copelia Swan Lake and Nutcracker Suite. She brought her love of expression through movement to her new career as a certified personal trainer and instructor of Yoga Core Fusion® and Core Energy Flow®. Elise enjoys helping her students to find their inner strength and to energize their joy of life through physical and mental fitness.
Element is proud to support the Arbor Day Foundation. For every four ElementDVDs purchased a tree will be planted (up to 20000 trees annually). In addition to generating oxygen trees provide air pollution control and decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide levels thereby reducing global warming. www.arborday.org.
Amazon.com:
The instructor, Elise, was kind enough to answer some questions from Amazon.com about the Element line of DVDs.
Why do you think the recent trend for women is to seek the dancer’s silhouette?
Elise: A dancer’s silhouette is the ideal physique for a woman today. It provides strength through lean, elegant, streamlined muscles. The strengthening of the dance conditioning movements will help melt away fat while creating lean musculature that is still feminine and graceful. The stretching element of dance creates length, not only in the muscles, but in the spine as well. Training with ballet conditioning will give a woman a strong, tall slender body.
How did you manage to create a ballet conditioning program that doesn’t use a barre or any other equipment?
Elise: I created a workout that uses the strength of the core to create balance and stability in the body. The sequences on this dvd are both accessible and challenging for anyone! Many ballet conditioning exercises actually don’t use the barre as a weight-bearing tool—it’s only for balance. In this DVD a beginner can use a chair to aid in balance, as they build core strength. A more advanced practitioner can do much of the series without the aid of a chair, simply by bracing the body with the strength of the abdominals, and a lifted, elongated spine.
Who is this workout good for?
Elise: This workout is amazing for women and men of all shapes and sizes! Ballet Conditioning uses one’s own body weight as resistance, so it is safe to do every day, for women AND men… from the strongest athlete, to the ultimate newcomer to fitness. It works to build strong, lean muscle, raise the heart-rate, and speed up metabolism. Dance also helps create rhythm, grace, and balance while building a supple flexible spine. .
What do you think consumers will find different about Element DVDs from other workout programs?
Elise: I know that consumers will enjoy the pure elegance of these DVDs. This is what truly sets the ‘element’ series apart from other brands of DVDs. The Element DVD’s encourage a solid mind/body connection, which encourages practitioners to explore their physical edge, while being truly mentally & emotionally present in the moment. These programs are fluid and graceful in their movement, and provide a HUGE physical fitness element in a nurturing and encouraging environment. .
Tell us about the connection with this DVD and the efforts to reduce global warming.
Elise: Element DVDs support the harmony of mind and body, which encourages a social and global awareness. This harmony encourages us to do what we can to make a difference in the world. For every four Element DVDs sold, a tree will be planted in a national forest. Consumers are therefore doing their part to reduce their carbon footprint, and the dangerous effects of global warming. If we work together, we can spread health and happiness one deep breath at a time.
Average Rating: 
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I was very pleased with this video. I'm taking an adult ballet class for exercise and I bought this video to supplement that class, since that only meets once per week. This workout is great. It concentrates a lot on the legs and butt, which are needed areas for me. I feel that doing this workout during the week has really helped me improve in class too. It's a great value.
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This is a solid workout for toning, lengthening, and balancing. It's fun and not too long. It's essentially a basic barre class with some pilates at the end. I did it for the first time yesterday and am really feeling it today - it's hard to sit down, but in a good way. I know if I keep at it it will make a difference in my body! My only dissapointment is that I did not break much of a sweat. Would be great after a two mile run.
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I have mostly been doing Pilates workouts so I thought I would try this after reading other reviews. This is fantastic! I love all of the leg exercises like tandu, plie, releve. You will hold onto a chair for balance. The leg exercises in the beginning really strengthen your thigh muscles. It is hard to keep doing them until the very last one. That's a good workout to me.
Towards the end, you will do jumps without using the chair, plus some other standing exercises. I cannot stand in the same place on these jumps the way that Elise does, but it still gives me a great cardio workout.
Before the cool down, there are exercises on the floor that will work your legs and abs. In this part, you can build up to where you don't use your arms to catch your legs and that uses your ab muscles more.
I don't know much about ballet, in fact, I have never been to a ballet class. Although, it is gorgeous to watch and I would love to have the dancer's physique. This workout will definitely improve your shape if you continue to do it.
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I'm trying to find a good DVD to exercise, and I thought I'd try ballet - hey, who doesn't want to be more graceful, lean, and strong? All the other DVDs I saw reviewed on Amazon seemed to be for an existing dancer (which I'm not!) to refine technique, or a mix of ballet-Pilates or ballet-yoga.
So you know who's doing this review - I'm very tall, 235 lbs, 30 years, good athletic background but not in great shape now. I am certainly NOT one of those women whose reviews I read here on Amazon who complain that an exercise video spends TOO MUCH time demonstrating moves, and gives too much of a break between moves. Nope! I need things simple and paced so that I can actually do it. So with that in mind, here's my review of Elise Gulan's Ballet Conditioning:
Pros:
1) Gorgeous Pacific background (someone's beautiful house)
2) Gulan has an amazing figure and is very graceful - gives me something to which to aspire, and trying to imitate her grace took my mind off the difficulty of what I was doing - a tiny bit at least.
3) I found the moves very difficult, and I was working hard let me tell you!
4) For a complete ballet newbie, I guess there was a good element of introduction to ballet moves and terms.
Cons:
1) I was distracted by the fact that she kept on referring to long, lean dancer's muscles - but she's a beast. Great figure, yes, very graceful movements, yes - but slender and delicate no. Her thighs could ... Read More
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This video is deceptively intense, but an amazingly simple workout for the effort. 40-45 minutes of intense muscle toning for legs, with incredible stretches and resistence work for arms that leaves you feeling leaner, taller and stronger every time. Another 10-15 minutes of intense abs work to round it out. I highly recommend this video for casual dancers (like, if you took ballet classes as a pre-teen) and those who never have danced to really challenge your muscles in new and unique ways. It gets easier over time as your flexibility develops (and it does), but never stops being an exhausting workout.
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