| | |  | DVDs | Home » » » Total Mix: Combination Yoga & Pilates Workout | | | | | | | Product Details: | | | Director:
| Andrea Ambandos | | Format:
| Color, DVD-Video, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Parade Video | | Run Time:
| 92 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| December 11, 2001 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 17 reviews |
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 Like Quick Fix Concept...Sep 11, 2007
but this DVD isn't one of my favorites of theirs! I think Tracy (who leads the Pilates segments is terrific, but I didn't care for Suzanne in the Yoga portions of the workout. Suzanne doesn't seem to be comfortable or natural in front of the camera. Now, I'm wondering which Yoga Zone DVD she leads, for comparison. While the exercises are good from all eight routines, if someone else were to lead the yoga, I might actually use this DVD more often.
I think a certain amount of instruction is necessary in a mass-marketed product (that's going to be geared toward a beginner audience) but because of time constraints you can't have too much explanation or set up time. Therefore, it's better if the user of this DVD (or some of the 10 minute solution DVDs) have a basic pilates and yoga knowledge.
For a change in my routine, I'm glad I have the short pilates portions to add some variety. But, for yoga I'll devote my time with another choice, like Barbara Benagh's "Yoga for Beginners" or "Yoga for Stress Relief" workouts. Both DVDs have customized menu options and short practices of various routines for when you don't have the time for long yoga sessions!
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Less talk more walk in 10 minutes pleaseJul 28, 2006
If you've purchased workouts by Keli Roberts and you like her, stick to her.
The instructors on this DVD spend soooo much time instructing you to do things like 'lie down on your back" you'll fall asleep lying there waiting for the exercise to begin.
I'd like to say I will use this DVD again, but in the 10 minutes it will take me to purchase something better, I'm moving on.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Quick Fix Total Mix: Versatile and Convenient Pilates/YogaMar 14, 2006
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!
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Duller than dullJan 05, 2006
I have most of the rest of the quick fix series and I love them. This one is horrible. The Pilates person spends about 8 minutes explaining and about 2 minutes doing, and the exercises weren't that great... The Yoga person tries to talk in this soothing voice, but it just comes out stilted and weird. The exercises are OK. Both instructors use a lot of weird, descriptive terminology (like "lower your body down on to your sit-bones", translated "sit on your butt"). Overall, you can do better than this DVD.
6 of 9 found the following review helpful:
First Quick Fix I Didn't LikeJun 25, 2004
I am a huge Quick Fix fan. I thought this would be a sure win, but I hate it. This bored me so badly the two times I've tried it I turned it off and switched to another DVD. I own 3 other Quick fix workouts which I love, but this one fell totally flat.
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