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| Brand: Malibu Pilates
Category: Sports
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 14956
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 45
Dimensions (in): 50 x 40 x 20
ASIN: B001AQYJYQ
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| • | The Revolutionary Pilates Chair Carroll Krieff |
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Product Description
The Revolutionary Pilates Chair Carroll Krieff took Josef Pilates' vision into the next generation with her affordable, portable, in-home total body Malibu PilatesTM Chair. Get Malibu slim and sexy with the Malibu Chair's one-of-a-kind combination of adjustable spring resistance and easy-to-do flowing cardio moves. You'll sculpt your legs, arms, buns, and thighs while target toning your abs with every move you make. The custom split-step pedals work your arms and legs individually or together for added resistance, plus they adjust on the fly, so you can maintain your workout flow and keep your heart rate up for continuous calorie burning. The Malibu PilatesTM Chair is sturdy, safe, and strong, yet so lightweight that it's easy to set-up and store away in seconds. Workouts to Slim and Tone on DVD Basic Breakdown A 10-minute kick-start to your new workout with Malibu PilatesTM creator, Carroll Krieff. 20-Minute Malibu PilatesTM Makeover Make over every body part, including your abs. Our exciting workout will get you fit from head to toe in as little as 20-minutes a day. Its great for those days when youre on the run and cant devote time to a full workout. Total Dream Body Sculpting Workout This 45-minute fat-blasting circuit style workout combines total body sculpting moves with challenging cardio blasts. Youll quickly lose unwanted pounds and inches fast! Malibu Makeover Manual & Eating Right Guide By combining the proper amount of exercise with healthy eating, you have a fail-proof plan to lose a pant or dress size in just 10 days! SPECIAL BONUSES! Maris Dynamic Sequencing Workout DVD Legendary Pilates instructor Mari Winsor brings her renowned dynamic sequencing technique to the Malibu PilatesTM Chair! Mari has created exclusively for you a 30-minute workout that will get your heart pumping and tone your entire body in just minutes a day.
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 There is no other way to get a Pilates chair for this price. September 27, 2008
Lisa M. Mims (Austin, TX United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I taught Pilates professionally for five years. In that time, one of two studio quality versions of this sat perched in a corner of my studio. Comparatively, this isn't perfect, but it's very, very good.
What's fantastic about it:
1.) Real springs. It makes a difference. Springs require control and slower speed--you will get a better workout because you have to do the exercises with more effort to control springs than the comparative effort required by weights.
2.) It folds up!
This folds up into the space that a folding chair would take up; when Joseph Pilates invented the original Wunda Chair, he was trying to create a piece of Pilates equipment that would fit into a tiny New York apartment, or a corner of your average suburban living room; his solution was to create a box that could be used as a chair when its exercise-equipment-side was turned down towards the floor.
This is a better idea. Pilates would have loved it. Instead of a box, it's like a folding chair with no back and an attached platform on the floor. Someone should submit it for a design award. It folds up!
3.) This is a safer chair than some studio quality chairs. In fact, it's much more stable than the first Pilates chair I bought for my studio, which came from a manufacturer in California that I shall not name to avoid their annoying, rude, and distinctly non-refundable legal department.
4.) Mari Windsor DVD's designed specifically for this piece of equipment are included.
Loathe as I am to admit it, Mari Windsor is a genius. About the time that I started thinking about how much you could improve the calorie-burning effect of Pilates by alternating the difficulty levels and tempos, so that it was Pilates-interval training, I discovered that someone had already done that and very successfully marketed it: Mari Windsor, darn her.
The DVDs included in this follow the same 'dynamic sequencing' pattern used in Mari's other Pilates DVD's. On the chair, a very difficult exercise know as Mountain Climber is alternated with less difficult exercises, to make this a very challenging interval-Pilates workout.
What's not so fabulous about it:
1.) The range of motion on the pedal is an inch or two less than a 'real' chair. It may not functionally make a difference, but it feels a little odd compared to studio quality equipment.
2.) The springs aren't interchangeable with other manufacturer's springs: if you are male or a stronger female, it's helpful to be able to put heavier springs and/or bungee cords on equipment like a non-studio quality trap table, the Pilates Extreme, and a Stamina Reformer, to increase the difficulty of workouts. I would also suspect the springs are not replaceable--this is sold as a unit without the option of replacement parts.
Any complaints aside, I love this. It's a real, useable, spring-loaded Pilates chair; it was dirt cheap for what it is; it folds up into a very small space, for the cost of about five private sessions in a studio. Impressive.
P.S. Just read the instructions first. I pulled on the wrong thing when opening up the chair right out of the box, and heard an alarming crack. But you'll be smarter than me.
 Decent Pilates Chair for home use September 10, 2008
Nick Lozano (USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought this Pilates Malibu chair and am very happy with the purchase. It's sturdy and well built. It's not a professional chair, but for 1/3 the price, its a great substitute for your home gym. I'm happy with the chair and would recommend it. I haven't watched any of the videos, but the enclosed chart shows you how to do many chair exercises
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