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The New York City Ballet Workout
New York City Ballet Workout
DVD

The New York City Ballet Workout, Vol. 2
New York City Ballet Workout
DVD
Peter Martins, Ballet Master in Chief of the New York City Ballet, and four graceful dancers--two men, two women--offer a beautifully produced, challenging, 90-minute strength and flexibility workout. The moving warm-up readies your muscles and makes you feel like a dancer. Most of the workout focuses on the abdominals and lower body (thighs, calves, buttocks), with exercises that ballet dancers use to strengthen and lengthen their muscles and condition their core. At the end, you learn patterns for a ballet routine which becomes a short cardiovascular workout. New York City Ballet Workout, Vol. 2 builds on what was best about the popular New York City Ballet Workout -- the graceful moves and gorgeous dancers--and includes the much-needed instruction and technique that was missing in the original. If you love watching or dancing ballet, New York City Ballet Workout, Vol. 2 is your workout.

Finis Jhung Ballet Technique Level 1: Barrework for Beginners

"From head to toe, Finis Jhung gives you a fresh new view of the essential ideas of classical ballet that will transform your physique -- and your psyche. The emphasis here is on learning ballet from the inside-out, instead of outside in.

Exercises on this video:
1. Number One;
2. Turning out, demi pliÃ© in 1st position;
3. Isometric grand pliÃ©s, relevÃ©;
4. Battement tendu en croix, 1st position;
5. Port de bras;
6. Battement tendu Ã la seconde, grand pliÃ©, relevÃ© & balance, 1st position;
7. Battement tendu devant & derriÃ¨re, demi pliÃ©, 1st position;
8. Working the foot, attitude Ã la seconde, relevÃ© in pliÃ©, 1st position;
9. Battement dÃ©gagÃ© & attitude Ã la seconde, relevÃ© & balance;
10. Battement dÃ©gagÃ© devant & derriÃ¨re, stretches, 1st position;
11. Battement tendu en croix, demi pliÃ©, relevÃ© & balance, 5th position;
12. Rond de jambe Ã terre;
13. DÃ©gagÃ© en croix, demi pliÃ©, 5th position, balance cou-de-pied derriÃ¨re;
14. Fondu en croix, balance retirÃ© derrÃ¨re;
15. Grand battement devant, port de bras;
16. Grand battement derriÃ¨re, tendu plie, relevÃ©;
17. Grand battement Ã la seconde, demi plie.

Taught by Finis Jhung. Demonstrated by Jennifer Harmer. Music by Scott Killian"

Finis Jhung Ballet Technique: Art of Pointwork, Level 1

"Judy Weiss, or "The Queen of Toe Shoes" as she is affectionately referred to by reigning New York ballerinas, tells you all about the construction of the pointe shoe and how to find the shoe for you. Ashlee Knapp, now dancing with The New York City Ballet, shows you special foot and ankle strengthening exercises, how to correctly prepare your shoe and foot, and how to tie your ribbons. On this video: Introduction: Shoe construction; fitting the shoe; sewing the elastic and ribbons; strengthening exercises; preparing your foot and tying the ribbons Exercises: 1. Rolling up & down, feet parallel; 2. Rolling up & down. 1st & 2nd positions; 3. Rolling up in pliÃ©. 1st & 2nd positions; 4. Combining exercises 2 & 3; 5. Demi & grand pliÃ©s, relevÃ©s. 1st, 2nd, 5th positions; 6. PliÃ©, relevÃ©, balance. 1st position; 7. Tendu, relevÃ©, demi pliÃ© en croix; 8. Quick relevÃ©s from 3/4 to full pointe. 1st & 2nd positions; 9. Sous-sus, placing the feet in 5th position; 10. Battement tendu, pliÃ©, relevÃ© in 4th position; 11. Ã‰chappÃ© sur les pointes, sous-sus; 12. PiquÃ© pas de bourÃ©e, couru; 13. Ã‰chappÃ© sur les pointes, sous-sus, pique pas de bourrÃ©e; 14. Ã‰chappÃ©, pliÃ© in second, sous-sus, pique pas de bourrÃ©e. Introductory section, 14 barre exercises. Taught by Finis Jhung. Demonstrated by Ashlee Knapp. Advised by Judith Weiss. Music by Scott Killian."

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The New York City Ballet Workout :
Fifty Stretches and Exercises Anyone Can Do for a Strong, Graceful, and Sculpted Body
Peter Martins Paperback
New York City Ballet Workout is a revolutionary fitness program that will help you begin to develop lean abs, firm buttocks, a contoured waist, sculpted legs, slim thighs, strong arms, perfect posture, flexbility you never thought possible--and grace and poice of a dancer. More than three hundred stunning step-by-step and other photographs throughout make this the most beautiful and easy-to-use exercise book ever created. This elegant book is unlike any exercise book ever published. Graced with more than 300 instructional exercise photographs and extraordinary duotone portraits of New York City Ballet dancers, The New York City Ballet Workout explores the company's philosophy of balancing art, life, and fitness.

By combining elements of New York City Ballet's balletic regimen with practical strength-building exercises, The New York City Ballet Workout can help people achieve a strong, graceful, and flexible body--one that displays the impeccable poise that is the trademark of New York City Ballet dancers.

Many exercises of The New York City Ballet Workout were once confined to the world's elite rehearsal studios. Now, as refined by Peter Martins and his company, these exercises have been designed as a comprehensive, holistic approach to the body that can be used by anyone from the out-of-shape to the serious athlete, to attain a lean, hard, beautiful body. From flexibility to endurance, this is a complete exercise program for men and women.

The New York City Ballet Workout
New York City Ballet Workout
VHS
Do you envy ballet dancers their long, lean bodies and graceful, elegant movements? This beautifully produced exercise video was developed by Peter Martins and the New York City Ballet with the New York Sports Club. First you watch the rippling muscles of four gorgeous ballet dancers (two men and two women) performing warm-up moves to classical ballet music. Martins uses ballet terminology in his cuing and no technique is taught, so it's look-and-follow if you have no previous ballet training. Next you get down on a mat for slow lower-body stretches. A difficult abdominal series is next, followed by "floor barre" exercises to tone the thighs and buttocks while still using the abdominals. After introducing moves to strengthen the back and upper body, Martins runs through a series of standing exercise segments using various ballet movements to strengthen the legs and postural muscles. The workout is...