| | |  | FOLK MUSIC | Home » » Element: Ballet Conditioning | | | | | | | 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. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Elise Gulan | | Director:
| n/a | | Format:
| Full Screen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| ANCHOR BAY | | Run Time:
| 51 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| December 04, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
| based on 176 reviews |
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Ballet makes me happyFeb 22, 2010 I love ballet and I've taken a beginning ballet class in college. This DVD remindes me of what I learned in ballet and it's so easy to follow. I really got a workout from this DVD and I feel like a real dancer ! I feel happy and more confident after doing the workout. So if you love dance and want a really good workout, and build strength and muscle tone, then this DVD is a must have and well worth your money!
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Not very good!Feb 14, 2010 I really dislike this DVD. I think her technique is very poor and don't like her combinations much. The scenery is very beautiful but the workout is not great. There are so many better workouts based on ballet out there.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Cannot countFeb 06, 2010 This wasn't a half bad DVD. I wanted something to help supplement my classes and this does work. Couple of reasons why I did not give it 5 stars.
1. She only speaks in the beginning the rest is voice over, That may be why she apparently cannot count. She'll say lets do 8 of these then she will do 10. For anyone who has done class before it hard when you are mentally counting for 8 then preparing for the next step and she doesn't go into it for another 2 counts.
2. Speaking of class, you will need to have done some ballet classes to understand what she is talking about and proper positioning. Not once does this video show a close up of her feet with proper pointing of the toes or how they should be touching on the floor or the turn out of the knees. Also she only touches on 5th position for jumps at the ending...not even explaining what 5th position is and without a close up of the feet if you don't know this position your guessing.
This is why I only gave it 3 stars. These two issues probably should have been addressed before the DVD was published.
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My new favorate workout!Jan 24, 2010 Im a very fit person I have completed the P90X DVD series which are very difficult, I wanted to challenge other muscles and so i thought i would try ballet. I LOVE this 50 min. workout. Its challenging and the girl who instructs it isn't annoying she's very pleasant and all the moves are clean with good timing to it. The music doesn't bother me either and I like the setting. This is my new favorate workout I do it twice a week and after the first time I noticed results and a bit sore the next day. it hits all those trouble areas around your butt and thighs and loweer abs too. and even my arms were fatigued. This was definitly worth every penny! I love it!
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wow, this burns in a good wayJan 23, 2010 I am a workout DVD junkie. I have a huge stack of all different types of workouts because I become easily bored and need to mix it up in order to keep myself interested. I have yoga, pilates, boot camp, martial arts, dance, aerobics, weight training, walking, you name it. I decided to try a ballet DVD since I didn't own any, thinking how nice it would be to have a body like a ballet dancer. Wow, was this harder than I thought. I'm in pretty ok shape for having 3 kids, so I thought this would be a breeze. But my legs were shaking at the end of this one. And the ab session at the end really was tough for me. I really enjoy this workout because it's not overwhelmingly hard, so I never dread doing it in the morning, yet it is still extremely challenging and effective. The instructor's voice-over is friendly yet motivating, and offers reminders on keeping proper form. I really like the fact that the person is pleasant, not annoying in any way. Her body is AMAZING too, so that alone is great motivation! I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for an effective workout that is fun at the same time.
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