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Ballet Beautiful: Transform Your Body and Gain the Strength, Grace, and Focus of a Ballet Dancer [Kindle Edition]

Author: Mary Helen Bowers | Language: English | ISBN: B0080K3ONM | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Ballet-inspired fitness for every woman! 

You don't have to be a professional ballerina to look like one! With Mary Helen Bowers’ Ballet Beautiful, forget beating yourself up in the gym and suffering through starvation diets for some unattainable goal. You can achieve your ideal body and develop the strength, grace, and elegance of a dancer by following Mary Helen’s proven program—one that’s got everyone from celebrities to busy moms to executives raving!

 

Ballet Beautiful is a fitness method that blends the artistry and athleticism of ballet with an easy, accessible eating plan that works for every body – and absolutely no dance experience is required. Created by professional ballerina Mary Helen Bowers, this transformative approach to fitness and health will reshape your body and your mind!

 

Ballet Beautiful’s three-fold approach is not an extreme workout nor is it a radical diet for an overnight fix; it's a roadmap to achieving and maintaining your ideal health, shape and size—all with the elegance and strength of a ballerina. Part One of the book introduces the program's empowering mindset, the key to supporting and guiding you through lasting change. Part Two, the Ballet Beautiful Method, consists of challenging, effective, and fun workouts that sculpt and tone sleek ballet muscles and build beautiful posture. Whether you have a full hour or only 15 minutes, you can tailor the program to your own schedule and needs. Part Three shares the Ballet Beautiful Lifestyle, a healthy, balanced approach to nutrition. With meal plans, shopping tips and quick but delicious daily recipes that will satisfy and nourish your entire body, it’s a stress-free, diet-free plan that will help keep you feeling as strong and healthy as you look.

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• File Size: 5042 KB
• Print Length: 274 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0738215902
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books (June 12, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0080K3ONM
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I am a devoted fan of Ballet Beautiful method/concept. I own both DVD's and almost all blast videos available online. No surprise I am an owner of the printed version of the book as well!

Why would I recommend this book to other girls and women - and not only to those who love ballet as I do?

First of all, the book is written in very pleasant, calm and sensible style. It is divided into three parts (these are divided into chapters).

The parts cover all you need for building some kind of regimen or just approach to your work out routine and food choices:

* mindset
* the actual work out (stretching exercises, the classic 60 minute workout and three 15-minutes blasts workouts: 1 for arms and 2 cardios). Here you also obtain some basic ballet terminology, few basic BB principles
* third part talks about the approach to food - shows what food choices are great, the essential philosophy here is the intuitive/instinctive and very sensible approach to food. I apprecciated the suggestions for breakfasts, snacks, lunches etc. There are also suggestions for how many times per week to work out (ideal week, a moderate and light week). You will also find usable and practical tips on how to deal with cravings etc. In the very end of this part and of the book itself you can find few quick and healthy, yet easy recipes provided by Mary Helen and her friends/family.

I'm gonna be honest here...this book honestly deserves 5 stars. The book itself is absolutely gorgeous. I just wish there were at least a few color photographs in the book, just as a personal preference, but the black and white was still pretty to look at.

The book is easy flip through when transitioning from one exercise to the next. I simply lay it down on the floor next to my mat or prop it up against something and refer to it from time to time. The exercises in it are essentially the same as her Streaming Blasts and DVD's, but there is still quite a bit of new material in the book that is not featured in either the Blasts or the DVD's (such as the Reverse Bridge, Parallel Pulse in Plie, etc.). I admit, I was actually surprised to see how much I was sweating and exerting myself while doing some of the moves; I'm no novice to Ballet Beautiful, and I wasn't expecting that from a book workout!

Although Mary Helen says that you don't need any dance experience to do some of the moves, I have to disagree with her. There are some terms and positions that one must be familiar with before attempting, and if it weren't for my dance background, I would have been hopelessly lost. Not to mention having at least some experience in ballet will help you out in proper form. Even when it comes to figuring out how some of the exercises go (like the Standing Abs - that one took a little while to figure out, thanks to a misleading picture), at least some sort of dance background is something I'd definitely recommend. However, if you're naturally sharp at picking moves up pretty quickly, then I suppose you'd do OK.

I wouldn't buy the book if you were a complete Ballet Beautiful beginner; as you'd probably struggle trying to figure out how some of the exercises would be performed.

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