Did you know that Callanetics within 3 years pushed Jane Fonda into second place on the all-time individual best-selling fitness video chart and it remains the all-time fitness bestseller in both the US and UK?

Did you know that Callan Pinckney was an American fitness professional?

Did you know that Pickney was born as Barbara Biffinger Pfeiffer Pinckney?

Did you know that Pinckney achieved unprecedented success with her Callanetics exercises?

Did you know that Pinckney 9 books helped her to become an international best-sellers and the video series that followed went on to sell over 6 million copies?

Did you know that Pinckney's first video release "Callanetics: 10 Years Younger In 10 Hours" outsold every other fitness video in the US?

Did you know that Callanetics within 3 years pushed Jane Fonda into second place on the all-time individual best-selling fitness video chart and it remains the all-time fitness bestseller in both the US and UK?<sup>[1]

Did you know that Pickney died she was 72?</sup>

( September 26, 1939 – March 1, 2012)

Did you know that Pickney exercise classes grew in popularity, and she needed to give them a name. One of her students would always refer to them as "Callan-etics", a name-blend of "Callan" and "athletics". and the name seemed to stick and without her even realizing it; "Callanetics" was born?.

Did you know that after seven years of teaching with incredible results, the time seemed right for Pinckney to put her exercise method down in a book?

Did you know that with encouragement from her students she started work on what would become the best selling exercise book of all time?

Did you know that Pickney had no idea about agents, publishers or even how to write a book but she didn’t let this stop her?

Did you know that by the beginning of 1984 Pickney illustrated the book with pictures of her actual students and even some of her 76-year-old mother?

Did you know that Pickney secured a publishing deal with William Morrow and Company relatively quickly and by September the book Callanetics: 10 Years Younger In 10 Hours was on the shelves?

Did you know that The Callanetics exercises were so unique and effective yet  it would take her another year of exhausting promotions before she would really get people to sit up and notice?

Did you know that within two years the book had sold close to a million copies in the US alone. She was profiled in Time Magazine^[3] and People Magazine ^[4] and appeared on every major chat show?

Did you know that Pinckney demand increased dramatically and although she was still teaching in her penthouse apartment at $25 an hour she could only teach six people at a time?

Did you know that Pinckney needed a way to increase the number of students who could get personal instructions in Callanetics so she struck a deal with MCA/Universal to put together the first Callanetics video.^[5] which was released in 1986?

Did you know that Callanetics did not have a large advertising campaign surrounding it but the word-of-mouth spread and the video was catapulted to the top of the charts.and it still remains the number one selling exercise video of all time?

Did you know that Callanetics continued to be taught around the world but with Pinckney now in deceased its popularity faded and people began turning to more high-profile exercise techniques such as Pilates and Yoga?

 

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