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Summary: Rebalancing Mind and Body
Review: Al Bingham has a unique teaching style. He focuses on achieving and maintaining the correct position for each posture. This particular Weight Loss Yoga practice session relies on time-tested principles to achieve weight loss results. By removing all the restlessness you experience from daily stress, you can then start to address unconscious eating habits. Suddenly, you are making better choices and wandering in the natural foods isle of your grocery store. Since starting Yoga, I've rarely found myself at a fast-food establishment and when I do happen to be there with my husband, I'm making better choices. For example - salads or low carb options. So, Yoga works. This I've proven to myself. It strengthens you from the inside out and also helps you focus on your health instead of just "exercising." Yoga actually makes you a more well-rounded person, except you can see it toning your muscles and making your face look more relaxed. In fact, if you skip your Yoga, you start to crave the peaceful serenity of your daily "moment with yourself." Al Bingham's voice is so pleasant and his instruction style is positive and nurturing. I love how he takes a hands-on approach and really guides you through each exercise. You can be assured you are doing it correctly because he explains each position in depth. This is one of the most accessible yoga workouts out there. The exercises range from beginner to intermediate with some interesting variations for the chair pose which made the pose less exhausting, and much more creative. You will recognize positions like Warrior 1 and plank pose. There are yoga-style pushups and the entire exercise routine is pleasantly paced. The Sun Salutations are healing and teach you to breathe. Al Bingham's calming voice makes this a favorite for late night relaxing. The beach scenes take you out of your home environment and give you a mini vacation. ~TheRebeccaReview.com P.S. Also look for Yoga Zone Flexibility and Stress Release
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Summary: Great for True Beginners, but not Intermediates
Review: Being new to yoga, I started with a friend by going to classes. However, classes never seemed to be at a convenient time, and I could see cost escalting easily, so I looked to video. I have been using the Yoga for Weightloss video, along with a few others from Yoga Zone and find them to be valuable for the true beginning yoga student. In addition to moving you through a series of poses, instructor Al Bingham and company provide alternative poses and guide you by identifying where your hips, back, neck, etc. should be placed for each position to keep you from harming yourself and providing a better workout. This is great for anyone who has not been particularly physically active, or has past injuries in the joint or back areas. Al Bingham's lighter personality and motivational-like speaking is a nice change from the heavy-weighted philospohical instructor types, although I can see how he might not appeal to everyone. However, if you are an "advanced" beginner or intermediate student, you will probably find that this video is too easy for you. I quickly outgrew this video (within 2 months of using this and other Yoga Zone beginner level videos at 4 days a week), but the basics it provided me in checking for correct form in my poses allowed me to feel more comfortable in videos that do not provide such info, like the "Beginner" video set of Rodney Yee. Despite quickly outgrowing this beginner series, it was well worth the money that it saved in classes, provides the basics for correct form and provides me a lighter workout for days that I just don't feel up to speed.
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Summary: Too hard on the back and knees
Review: I am new to Yoga and have done the Rodney Yee back video. It provided great information and gentle exercises which actually helped me. I didn't make it past the first 10 minutes of this video as the poses were much too stressful on the back and knees. No wonder people are sore from using it! Even the modified positions were of no help. There are many other weight loss videos I would recommend before this one, especially if you have a bad back or knees
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Summary: What were the people who gave it one star thinking???
Review: I first saw the name of this tape on a recommended video list at DietSmart.com. Our climate currently limits one's ability to hike or bike outside; with a small child to consider as well, a tape seemed like a good option. I checked the reviews in this section and saw a bimodal distribution -- lots of 4's and 5's, and a small cluster of 1's. Since I've done some yoga and danced for many years, I tried it out. I honestly think the people who are saying it's too hard on the back are not listening to what the instructor is saying (I thought this meant he would keep you in the Camel position for 15 minutes!): he focuses a lot on breathing, lengthening and correct positioning, and his demonstrators give a modified version where one is possible. If you're new to yoga or to an exercise program, it might be wise to start with the conditioning section that comes at the end; otherwise, I think this is a great workout that tones mind and attitude as well as body. I've often blown off the meditative posture at the end of a yoga workout, but this video shows you how to use it in combination with affirmations to feel more positive about yourself whether you're losing weight or not. Love it!
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Summary: I love this tape!
Review: I have always been curious about yoga, and I finally decided to try it. I just tried this tape for the first time yesterday evening, and I loved it! I am one of those people who has tried Tae-Bo and didn't stick with it, tried aerobics and didn't stick with it, etc. but I can definitely stick with this. I was sweating by the end of the workout, but I didn't feel exhausted and I wasn't trying to catch my breath like with other workouts. That has always been my main reason for not sticking with something, it made me too tired to want to continue or too sore to get into a regular routine. Today, I can definitely feel in my muscles that I worked them, but I am still looking forward to doing the yoga exercises again this evening. This is something that is easy to do 3-4 times a week because the workout is only about 30 minutes including the time to teach some basic poses. This tape will definitely get me addicted to yoga!
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Summary: Boy are my muscles sore! but in a good way!
Review: I have seen other "yoga" videos and have either been so confused or i hurt myself. This video has non annoying people in it, which is really good and they show you how to do things with a modified version. They actually explain! I know I couldn't believe it myself! I would recommend this video to a begginner or an intermediate, but not to a pro, I mean if your a pro allready why are you watching these tapes? Shouldn't you know enough allready? Well anyways the first day I did the work out I had to take the next day off from excersise because my muscles were sore!
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Summary: Great for strength!
Review: I just got this video and I must say it is quite challenging. I could feel the muscles in my legs and abs work very hard while going through the poses. Especially the chair pose. The only thing I didn't like was they do the triangle pose to one side, but not the other. I'm the type of person who needs to do the poses to both sides of the body. It really wasn't a big deal I just went ahead and did it to the other side. All in all a challenging video that will create heat and strength in your body top to bottom!
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Summary: You'll stress with this video
Review: I love the Yoga Zone series in general, but this particular one completely stresses me out! The instructor is horrible. He overtalks, is way too hyper, and talks more about what NOT to do rather than the correct poses.
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Summary: You'll stress with this video
Review: I love the Yoga Zone series in general, but this particular one completely stresses me out! The instructor is horrible. He overtalks, is way too hyper, and talks more about what NOT to do rather than the correct poses.
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Summary: Real yoga without the baggage
Review: I love yoga. I think that it is by far the best exercise to increase strenght and flexibility. What I don't like is the relgion that most instructors try in inject into a session. I think that many more people would appreciate the benefits of stretching if there wasn't a lecture on philosophy included. If you're like me, you'll very much appreciate this video. It's no nonsense and let's get to work.
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