Malibu Pilates Chair

Well, it looks a bit like a step stool, with pedals and springs and things. It's quite substantial, around 40lbs in weight, and the idea of this thing is a bit like a Pilates Wunda-chair. It is surprisingly versatile - when you watch the DVDs it's amazing the number of things you can do with the Malibu Pilates chair.

I have to say that nothing can beat going to a Pilates studio and having a qualified instructor give you a workout on a Pilates Reformer or a proper Wunda-chair, but that's not within the budget of many of us. Here in the UK where I live, I don't think there's a reformer studio within 200 miles! We all teach matwork Pilates up here, which is based on Joseph's original Pilates ideas, except that all his stuff was done with machines.

Still, we do the best we can and the exercises that we teach are amazingly beneficial for your core, posture, your back and your legs - in fact it teaches you to move and use your whole body differently. The Malibu Pilates Chair takes basic Pilates exercises and makes them more challenging, for faster toning and increased calorie burn. The models on screen in the DVD make the exercises look easy as they really do have incredible core stability - that Susan Lucci looks absolute fantastic - "All My Children", my foot! I only have one child and I don't look anything like that!

Pilates exercises can be complex. Most people who say Pilates doesn't challenge them simply haven't got it, and are just waving their arms and legs around. Done correctly, Pilates is incredibly challenging, isolating specific muscles and working them in a way that strengthens, tones and sculpts them very quickly indeed.

The Malibu Pilates Chair will do this for you if you use it, and one of the ideas behind the Malibu Pilates Chair is to add some cardio exercise to your Pilates routine, thus burning more calories than just with Pilates on its own. Personally, I would watch the DVD through first before getting onto my Malibu Pilates Chair to do the workout, as it very hard to do a Pilates exercise properly while craning your neck around to look at the TV screen. JP would have a fit! Used in a variety of positions the Malibu Pilates Chair can be used to strengthen and tone most of your body; arms, shoulders, chest, back, abs, waist, hips, thighs and calves. Did I leave anything out?

Some people have said to me that they found some positions on the Malibu Pilates Chair uncomfortable. As I keep pointing out to my classes, Pilates is uncomfortable! With the Chair, as with matwork classes, you are deliberately placed in the position where the only muscles that will function are the specific muscles you are trying to tone. Yes, this is uncomfortable, as the muscle you want is often very weak and does not wish to work at all, preferring to leave the work to neighbouring stronger muscles. My answer to these comments is: Persevere.

The Malibu Pilates Chair comes with a total of 4 DVDs, an Eating Right guide and wallchart. The company claims that you can lose at least one dress size in 10 days and that the Pilates Chair lifts, firms, sculpts and burns (calories, we assume). I'm not sure how much actual cardio you will get from using the Pilates Chair, but you will definitely get the lifting, firming and sculpting. The Chair comes in at $220, but has try-before-you-buy option -- you can send it back after 30 days if you're not happy with it, and get a refund.

As a piece of exercise equipment, I like the Malibu Pilates Chair. Used regularly, correctly and carefully it should definitely make a difference to your body.

Order The Malibu Pilates Chair

As with any piece of Pilates Exercise Equipment it won't help you with your weight loss goals if you don't use it!

To learn more about the Mailbu Pilates Chair then please follow the link.

All the best,

Carol J Bartram
(Pilates Instructor)

You're interested in Home Exercise Equipment and Pilates. The Malibu Pilates Chair is a great piece of equipment but if you want the very latest in Home Exercise equipment why don't you take a look at the T-Bow?

I love them and have bought over 20 so that I can use them in my own Pilates classes. This fantastic piece of equipment is so small you can stow it underneath your bed but so versatile that you can do cardio, strength training and also stretch on it.

The great thing about it is that you only need your own body weight and an exercise band (which is optional).

This is functional training at it's best. If you would like to see more pictures and a video of this great piece of kit in action please click the T-Bow
link.

If you liked the T-Bow but live in the USA read on.

I have to say I love the T-Bow. I've bought over 20 of them to use in our Pilates classes and they are fantastic.

The main advantage of the T-Bow over the Wave is that the T-Bow will stack (because of the shape of the Wave it won't) now for myself that's important as I need to store them in a small space.

If you are a home user that isn't going to be a problem for you so the Wave at about $90 + P&P would probably be OK. I also think the T-Bow is better constructed as it was designed for studio use, again for you not a problem.

The T-Bow (if you could get one) retails at £89-00 - $150 + Taxes (VAT or your local ones) + P&P and comes with a small booklet nothing else. The Wave comes with a stack of DVD's, wallchart and healthy eating guide.

So if you love the T-Bow but can't get one why not check out the Wave instead?