Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44805 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-12-27
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

DVD Description
Chillates from Ministry of Sound is a brand new concept taking influence from yoga, pilates and dance. A complete mind body workout which improves balance, aerobic fitness, co-ordination and muscle tone set to an exclusive 12 track chillout mix featuring tracks from Bent, Deepest Blue, iio, Jakatta, Lost Witness and The Thrillseekers.

Professionally programmed by top international choreographer Litza Bixler, Chillates is suitable for all standards with beginner, intermediate and advanced demonstrations of key moves and sequences.

The full programme runs for an hour and features a ‘Wake Up’ section to warm up the body, ‘Salute & Strengthen’, developing strength and tone in the large muscles of the lower body, ‘Core Strength & Flex’ working the smaller muscles of the upper/lower body and abdomen and ‘Standing Yoga & Dance’ improving strength and tone for the entire body.

The workout finishes with a 10 minutes guided meditation section helping you unwind and forget about the stresses of the day. Also featured is a half hour Ibiza sunsets section set to the Chillates soundtrack.

Bonus features :

10 minute meditation section

30 min Ibiza sunset section

Behind the Scenes featurette

Voice off option

Play soundtrack only option

Synopsis
A brand new fitness programme influenced by yoga, Pilates and dance that are suitable for all levels of fitness. Improves balance, fitness, co-ordination and muscle tone. Features a 'Warm up', 'Salute and Strength', 'Core Strength and Flex' and 'Standing Yoga and Dance', finishing with a chill out meditation to relax and relieve stress. All to a background of chill out music that includes Bent, Deepest Blue, iio, Jakatta, Lost Witness and The Thrillseekers.

Customer Reviews

Maybe not so chilled but still good fun
I agree with the other reviews here in that this workout DVD, when doing the full wokrout is quite strenuous and for the beginner it may seem really daunting. However the opition to choose workouts is excellent. It gives u an opportunity to go through the workouts before trying the full routine.

'Salute & Strengthen' is quite hardwork, 'Core Strength & Flex'is more relaxing but works the central abdomen, and 'Standing Yoga & Dance' is inbetween.

The pace of these workouts is quite fast and it may be worth watching them through and practicing bits before attempting the workout. When she's advising about breathing for the first couple of sessions I'd ignore this unless u've done pilates before. It often distracts you from learning the routines. Having three levels of standard is good and they reasonably clear to follow.
The guided meditation as a warm down is a good way of relaxing on its own.

The key thing to remeber with this DVD is that if you could do all the exercises straightaway there would be nothing to build up to. Doing even the shorter workouts will still get you extremley fit and flexible with this DVD. If you want a more relaxing DVD then maybe a purely yoga one would be better, but this is really a good combination of strenuous exercise that gets you sweating with calmer more chilled out routines.

Give it a few goes!
I have just tried the the DVD for the first time and although being reasonably fit I couldn't finish it! This will definitely be a workout you'd feel the next day! I recommend that you watch the tips and tricks before you start the workout as it gives great technique and posture guidance. The three levels of difficulty enables you to work your stongest muscle groups the hardest and opt for the beginner level on your weakest providing a safe but still demanding workout. The music makes it all the more enjoyable!

My only gripe is that having not tried Pilates before, I struggled to remember when they want to you to breathe let alone the moves! The narration is out of time with the workout so you have to crane your neck in some parts to keep an eye on the tv! I am going to bear with it in the hope that i will learn the moves and remember my inhaling and exhaling!

poised for action
so this was a bit of a change up, i've bought all the MoS DVDs so far, the pump it up dance DVDs, and i've done some yoga classes before for flexibility, so was very happy to see this side of exercising finally put to a decent soundtrack. the workout looks at pilates and other forms of dance as well, but is basically a relaxing but challenging home workout presented by someone who clearly knows what they're talking about.

good presentation, and i found the option that allows you to do easy, medium and hard versions of the same workout, great idea. i think i've now enough incentive to get working at home, brilliantly put together and surprisingly good.