History

Callan Pinckney is the founder of the Callanetics program. Callan studied classical ballet before spending almost eleven years backpacking around the world. The travel, combined with the problems of a congenital back defect, resulted in physical collapse. To relieve her own back and knee pain without surgery, Callan used her years of ballet training to develop a series of non-impact exercises that isolate specific muscle groups and use tiny, precise (yet powerful) movements called pulses to increase strength and flexibility.

Not only did she succeed in avoiding surgery, she totally transformed her body. The exercises gave her a strong, fit body in a very short period of time. Callan then introduced the program to the world in the 1980s and it quickly became a long-standing major bestseller.

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