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 Crunch - The Perfect Yoga Workout: The Joy of Yoga & Fat-Burning Yoga :: 0756611695
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| Welcome to Crunch Fitness! With Fat Burning Yoga you can tone and re-shape your entire body, increase energy levels, feel lean and limber, and it can help you maintain healthy weight levels. By adding more movement to your yoga practice, you'll definitely increase your heart rate and improve your circulation, which aids in weight loss and burning extra calories. Editorial Descriptions are usually submitted by the manufacturers, publishers and authors. Contact us if you are one of them, and wish to change the above description. |
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Author: Guest
As a person who doesn't like to do any strenuous exercise this is a perfect workout. It isn't too easy and it isn't too hard. I still get a good workout but I don't get the painful stitches in the side that I get with running or stepping ect. The joy of yoga is a great way to start and the fat burning yoga is a very fun and fast paced workout. I love it
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Author: Guest
This has become one of my favorites. The poses are held to perfection, and there are many offered in this workout. Sarah Ivanhoe does an excellent job of explaining the positions and poses, keeping you on track for perfect alignment.
The Joy of Yoga: is a great place to start for the beginner and can provide variety for the intermediate since they also show more advance moves as you progress in Yoga form. This workout creates stamina and strength as I can definitely feel my muscles when I am done. The workout is 40 minutes long and is great for the days you don't have enough time.
Fat Burning Yoga: I don't know if it really is burning fat, but it does build in intensity, making you sweat and elevating your heart rate. This workout moves a tad faster than the joy of yoga, which makes this combination series a must have. This routine is also 40 minutes. This session can also prepare you for more advanced Ashtanga or power yoga in the future.
When I feel really ambitious and want an excellent workout overall, I will combine these workouts in one session, making my total workout 75 minutes. I skip the relaxation part at the end of Joy of yoga and move onto Fat Burning yoga as I don't want to end my momentum.
Trust me, if you combine these two workouts after you become more in tune with the asana's, you will feel so energized, relaxed and alive. I always feel my best after an hour or more of yoga. Shorter spurts will work for the novice, but as you grow in strength as I am, your body will literally begin to crave more and more of this invigorating lifestyle known as YOGA!
This is a must have to any collection.
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Author: Guest
Dr. Beth wrote a great review.
Sara Ivanhoe is very friendly, but a bit stiff. Many times she'll say how hard everything is which is meant to be sympathetic, but comes off reminding me how much I'm working to lose weight instead of enjoying how good the poses feel themselves. She never stops talking which can be ok if to remind you to breathe or keep your back straight, but she talks off-topic atimes & too quick & stiff which keeps you from concentrating on your body.
The background music can't be heard unless you listen for it which should be there to help you to relax. The colorful industral background was too gym lookiing.
The workout was challenging & had some great twists, but it did not flow. This workout is more of a stiff slow aerobics then yoga. She does teach well, remembers most cues & details to make sure you do it right, doing each pose slowly at first to build it to a series which she repeats 2-4x. The poses were the basic sun salutations, forward bends, chair pose, downward dog, side angle, warrior 1 & 2, triangle pose, table, bow, locust, wide legged sretch, as well as some deep twisting poses.
A past reviewer remarked she was new & it showed... During the side angle or triangle pose she said to use the hand at the floor as an anchor to keep you in the pose... Isn't the correct way to use your abdominal & leg muscles to hold you & just have lower arm as a slight balance, nothing more since the point is to extend the arms as much as possible?
If you like the straight-foward do the pose & done, this is the DVD for you. If you like ones that are more relaxed with music being able to be heard to keep your breathing in tune, & the teacher being serene, try Rodney Yee, Rainbeau Mars, Wai Lana & others.
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Author: Guest
The "Fat Burning Yoga" portion of this DVD is my favorite because I am one of those "on-again-off-again" exercizers and this yoga routine is always challenging enough to make me feel like I'm getting a workout and good stretch but easy enough to help be get back "on-again." I always start back with this one because it's enjoyable and un-intimidating and gets me back in shape to go on to my more challenging yoga routines. In fact, I even bought it twice! I used to have it on video and had to buy it again when our VCR went obsolete and we became a DVD only household. Even when I am sticking with regular exercize, I still go back to this one on days when I'm not at my best. By the way, I think Sarah Ivanhoe does a great job of explaining proper form and giving enough timely cues so that you don't have to watch the screen after doing the routine just a few times.
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Author: Guest
I was apprehensive about ordering this DVD because I'm a Yoga Teacher but was very impressed by this video. In a way the name is deceiving because it's a straight forward yoga workshop. Sara Ivanhoe uses yoga poses in a different way with progression sequences. I highly recommend this video.
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