Yoga Dad 2006-03-14
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Quick Fix total mix is a versatile program that contains four ten minute Pilates and four ten minute Yoga routines.
You can mix and match between all the various sequences via a matrix feature which lets you program 3 sequences of your choice in a row. It's very easy to use and makes it so that you don't have to keep messing around with the remote once you decide on the order you want to practice at any given time.
I wouldn't recommend this for stone beginners in either Pilates or Yoga. I would suggest getting something like Stott Pilates Basics to learn the fundamentals of Pilates. I would recommend something like Yoga Zones Basics for Beginners (which contains 2 twenty minute routines) to learn some fundamentals of Yoga.
Once you have a basic background in both Pilates and Yoga I think this Quick fix DVD is a great tool to be able to use in order to have a lot of variety in your practice while fitting it into a short amount of time. You can determine the emphasis you want. For example, I always do two Pilates, I always start with the Abs and then select one of the other Pilates routines and end with one Yoga routine as a nice finish. That's my personal preference but of course you have the option to do whatever you prefer. You can do all Pilates or all Yoga as well.
Anyway, this program is very well done, both the Pilates and the Yoga instructor (who actually appears in a few Yoga Zone Videos, she is a Yoga Zone Senior teacher) do a great job leading through the practices along with two students. One of the student's is always a modifier showing a less intense version of the various poses.
Another program I enjoy that's set up in a similar way (though only pilates) is Liz Gillies Progressive Pilates. It's a wonderful program with ten minute sequences as well. It doesn't have the matrix, but you can easily select the order you want via the remote. It's slightly less convenient but so well done in terms of instruction (she builds all the routines incrementally to warm you up into each movement) that it's worth the miniscule amount of effort required to use it.
If you have 30 minutes available to practice and you're ready to move into the next level of Pilates, then I'd highly recommend Hilary Burnett's Intermediate Pilates program. It covers the complete Pilates intermediate series plus includes poses from the advanced series as well. It's beautifully done, has a great flow and Hilary Burnett is an amazing instructor!
