About "Pilates and Chocolate"

You might be wondering what is the connection between Pilates and chocolate. Hi, my name is Kathleen Pagnini and I want to share with you my story about how you can experience a deep and satisfying workout and bring balance and control into every aspect of your life! With my new DVD, "Pilates and Chocolate", I'm going to teach you my personal techniques and secrets I've learned over the last 30 years that will create a stronger body, mind and spirit for you! Quite simply, I absolutely love chocolate!

Pilates and Chocolate is about you! To have a real balance in life, you have to develop the body while developing commitment and patience which will increase your ability to improve balance and self control. You will begin to use this newfound balance and control in other areas of your life as you'll become better equipped to contain mood swings and cravings, while toning and sculpting your body, mind, and with some of us...the soul.

I am now almost 50 and entering the best years of my life! During my last 30 years as a fitness professional, I've experienced life's highs and lows. I experienced the highs of falling in love and marriage and having a wonderful son. I've also experienced the lows of divorce and a few failed relationships. During my lows I found myself turning to compulsive things like over eating and mood swings. At one point I had put on over 20 pounds and was feeling like a failure in life. That's when I knew I had to make a change in my body, mind and spirit. I had to take control!

I was desperate to find a new way of life, something that would bring happiness back into my life and make me feel special again. That's when I started practicing the Pilates technique. I finally learned to move my body in exercises that were working for me even when I wasn't doing Pilates. I quickly learned that to use this technique in everything I did from sitting at a desk to playing golf to picking up a bag of groceries to simply eating a piece of chocolate!

If I could change then you can too! I now have control and balance in my life and adjusted my eating habits and no longer have those uncontrollable cravings. I also now find time for other things in my life since I have made Pilates part of my everyday routine and don't have to spend time focusing on those long and intensive workout sessions.

The bottom line is I'm more relaxed and calm and more aware of my inner feelings as well as the influencing things outside of me. My techniques have taught me to accept a new behavior and correct the things I can and not to worry about things that are out of my control. What I've learned and what you can too in my DVD is that behavior change must start with a commitment to change. If you're ready to change and eliminate your pain and take back control of your body, mind and spirit then congratulations on taking the first step to a new you!

"Pilates and Chocolate" is all about you! The real you that is screaming to come out! It requires commitment and patience but you will find a new and exciting ability to improve your balance and self control. You will begin to use this new found balance and control in other areas of you life and become better equipped to contain those hot and cold moments, mood swings and cravings while toning, sculpting and reforming your body, mind and spirit. So sit back, enjoy my video and get started living a rich and fulfilling life. And after your workouts, enjoy some chocolate and know that there are sweeter things in life in store for you! La Dolce Vita!

How is This DVD Different?

This DVD is more like a 'Lifestyle Guide'! It includes self help, motivation, exercise, a recipe and humor. Why buy 5 different DVD's when all you really need is ONE that works for the whole family!

It is for the working mother or busy corporate person with limited time for exercises who wants serious results in minimal time. It's for dad, who doesn't workout but spends his weekends on the golf course or in some other recreational sport only ending up with back pain afterwards. For the senior who could benefit by learning to move their body in a gentle yet effective manner resulting in increased mobility, balance, health and well being! Teenagers, who want the 'six pack ' abs.. and without realizing it will improve posture and lead to increased self esteem.

It begins with personal words of encouragement and motivation from Kathleen Pagnini to be the best you can be and help you understand how to bring control and balance back into your lives physically and emotionally! To change the things you can, accept the things you can't and learn to manage the rest from the inside out!

The Pilates technique will demonstrate how your body works efficiently and how it relates to everything you do, exercise, driving a car, picking up children, or playing golf. Pilates teaches balance and control of your body and once learned, you will integrate the focus required for Pilates in other areas of your life. Exercise and chocolate both raise the serotonin levels in your brain, which is what makes you feel good. Chocolate is also used as a metaphor, that which is in our lives that we tend to 'overdue' creating an imbalance. Understand your body, yourself!

This DVD Includes:

The 5 SECRETS - Core techniques required for proper form. This is for all age groups, beginning to advanced, busy moms or corporate executives, as it demonstrates proper body alignment for fast and efficient results that will incorporate into other areas of your life even after Pilates. The DVD is clear and concise and easy to follow allowing even the older adult gentle movement techniques.

The WARM UP - can be used for the beginner as a workout, or as a warm up for golf, tennis, or any other sport as it uses proper spine rotation exercises by using your 'core' effectively reducing injury and back pain.

The WORKOUT - 23 min workout, challenging for the advanced as it requires focus and concentration for proper form! For the beginner guiding them easily throughout, allowing them to work at their own pace and for the teenager who wants well defined abs and a great butt while improving posture.

The DVD concludes with demonstration by Chef Cathleen Rosenberg/Scottsdale Culinary Institute Instructor, talk show host style

It ends with 'bloopers' for a dose of laughter we all could use each day!

ENJOY !