Callanetics is an exercise program designed for about an hour of intense exercise. They will make the hips slender, remove the fat folds on the abdomen, relieve the figure of excess weight.
This is a complex of special gymnastics, which, if performed regularly, removes fat folds in those parts of the body where it is necessary.
The founder of this gymnastics complex, Callan Pinckney, advises hourly sessions 2 times a week only during the period when you just started classes to get rid of excess weight. As soon as you feel that you have lost some weight, an hour a week will be enough for classes to maintain what you have achieved.

And as soon as your figure approaches the ideal that you want to achieve, you can devote 15 minutes to callanetics, but every day.

Callan claims that after 10 hours of exercise, you can become 10 years younger, and this is because one hour of callanetics brings the body as much benefit as 7 hours of classical gymnastics or 24 hours of aerobics.

There is another meaning of this word, which is hidden in the name and can mean only one thing: let’s declare war on calories. At the same time, having started to deal with the callanetics complex, you will have to be more careful in choosing food.

The problem of excess weight worries doctors also because it not only changes the appearance of a person for the worse, but leads to clogging of the body with various toxins, and this, in turn, causes premature old age, the rapid development of flat feet, and deterioration in general well-being. As a result, problems arise not only in terms of physical health, but also moral.

We briefly dwell on some of the reasons leading to the emergence of excess weight. Very rarely, this is due to the fact that irreversible processes of metabolic disorders and other pathologies occur in the body. And this is mainly due to overeating and lack of mobility.

Back in the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek lyricist Theognis wrote that “excessive satiety killed more people than hunger.” There is another aphorism that history attributes to the author of the Treatise on Moderate Food, Ludovic Cornaro, who lived to be almost 104 years old (an age completely unthinkable for Europe in the 16th century). So, he believed that after 40 years, the food that we did not eat helps us the most !!!

If you are driving a sedentary lifestyle, which is mainly associated with sedentary work, try to do several callanetics exercises in the morning and at night. This, firstly, will prepare your body for the fact that more intense loads are coming soon, and secondly, your well-being will improve.

How to start classes

The number of movements that you must perform when practicing callanetics ranges from 30 to 100 for each exercise. And this is not a typo. This is the basic principle of gymnastics. Movements are not performed abruptly and without any additional jerks. A signal to stop gymnastics will be a mild painful condition in the muscles.

In the process of training, you can drink water from time to time, this is not forbidden. But the water, of course, must be mineral, in extreme cases, boiled and never from the tap. The amount drunk is also quite individual, but there is only one rule – you should stop exactly when you feel that you can drink another glass.

Exercises in the complex are arranged according to the principle of increasing difficulty. In addition, they are also divided into special subheadings. It is not necessary to complete the entire complex, you can focus on those points that are of particular interest to you.

For example, if you are concerned about the appearance of your waist and abdomen, you can only perform movements that are designed to correct this part of the body. This not only applies to women, but is often the #1 problem for men as well.

We especially recommend such exercises to women who want to regain their former harmony after childbirth. And to correct the hips, you will have to turn to him, to the callanetics, for help.

We think it makes no sense to warn that only the systematic implementation of exercises can lead to the achievement of the goal. In addition, do not rush to complicate or perform more movements than is provided for in gymnastics, because the consequences of this can torment for more than one week, but they will not lead to anything good. You only run the risk of breaking the ligaments.

Before the main exercises, it’s good to carry out a series of warm-up movements that will help you get back to normal faster.

And finally, one more warning: many people, having started doing callanetics, do not lose weight for almost two weeks, because their not very good physical shape does not allow them to move with the right energies.

No need to despair. Gradually, you will see the result of your efforts.

In addition to all the above, a few more tips:

1. Do only what you can, and do not force your body to do what it is not yet ready for. At the beginning of classes, rest more often, and if you feel pain in the muscles, although you have done only 20 more repetitions, but at least 50 are required, do not overexert yourself.

2. It is advisable to perform exercises in front of a mirror. Then you will be able to observe yourself and better fix the movements.

3. Breathing should be the same as it is all the time. Try not to delay it, otherwise the body will not receive the amount of oxygen it expects.

4. Perform movements in silence, otherwise the pace may go astray.

5. As we have already warned, not only will you not immediately begin to lose weight, but, on the contrary, you can even add it a little. This is because trained muscles weigh more than flabby ones.

When doing exercises designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles, if yours are also soft enough, it will also “grow” a little at first for the same reason. But don’t worry, things will get better with time.