The South African Callanetics Programme

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• Callanetics;
• Callanetics
• DVD;
• Exercises;
• Workout;
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• Tracey
• Habron

[Callenetics]

The African method is virtually the same as what the current callanetics teachers are teaching all over the world. The main new features are body alignment, posture, core stability and rotational movements - all good things that we didn't know about when the original program was released.

[Indogo]

thing is,I look at their bodies,then I look at callans,callans is much better,longer,stronger,more elegant.

I find the body of these lovely women far too bulky for me.

and they aren;t as supple and as fluid as the lovely callan.but its a different style so it won't be the same would it.

[Callenetics]

@Indogo - everyone is different and that is what makes us all so beautiful. You wouldn't like my figure is you like the very lean look - I have the perfect hourglass shape and I LOVE it!! As long as you love the look you have, that is all that matters!

[kissmekate59]

These exercises remind me a lot of the Lotte Berk exercises. Are they related?

[Callenetics]

My opinion is that Lotte Berk was the first person to put together this type of exercise. Callan Pinckney then created her version and now the South Africans have moved it further forward with more technique and improved body alignment for even better results.

[TraceyHabron]

Pilates never stole Callans ideas - Joself pilates was around long before Callan - during the second world war. His program is totally different. Callan developed the small pulses, which was first put together by Lotte Berk in London. Pi;ates has no small pulses at all and is quite different. Personally, Callanetics gave me much faster results than Pilates which is why I went on to teach Callanetics but it doesn't mean Pilates isn't good - it is different and perhaps suits different body types.

[magisana]

What is the difference between the African method and the other Callans?

[anusha00rao]

@Callenetics

I agree ... the south african method has incorporated yoga with callanetics (which already has many yoga postures but the pulsing thing is new) ... I will give this a shot maybe it can be better than doing them both separately...

[twocentsin]

My Apologies! I had it all wrong. Thanks for filling me in. I thought Pilates was very much like Callanetics, and immediaetly judged

wrongly. I don't like to follow trends, which is what it appeared to be. I never tried it, only watched a video. Callanetics is the best program I have ever tried for fast results, and I don't have to huff and puff and dred exercise. It's so Zen and relieves stress incredibly. I'm back to it. I Love it. Thank you!

[twocentsin]

Pilates did steal Callens idea, the reason I won't do them. They add a ball here, a tool there. You don't need anything but the DVD, no frills of Callens original work out. though I am interested in the new DVD.