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Power Yoga - Total Body Workout

Power yoga "demands your attention," says instructor Rodney Yee. He leads a challenging, constantly progressing series of poses, one flowing into the next, integrating breath, movement, tension, and relaxation. The poses include Sun Salutation, standing poses, forward bends, back bends, twists, and arm balances. The first poses are fairly easy, and with each repetition of the series, Yee adds on more difficult movements, extending the series without pausing. You're encouraged to do as much of the series that fits your level, up to the entire 65-minute workout if you're an experienced yoga practitioner. Although you can begin at any level, some familiarity with yoga is recommended. The Hawaiian setting is gorgeous and inspiring. This is an excellent yoga workout that you can grow with, adding on more as you get stronger. --Joan Price

Bryan Kest Power Yoga Complete Collection

Feel the power. Be the power! Unlock the strengthening slimming detoxifying and re-energizing of Power Yoga. Bryan Kest leads you in a vigorous workout based on the robust Ashtanga style of Yoga. Three programs on one DVD: Energize Tone SweatFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS UPC: 085393446628

Anyone wanting to get in shape like the stars need go no further than Bryan Kest's videos. Kest teaches wildly popular yoga classes in Santa Monica, California--so popular that stars like Rhea Perlman, David Duchovny, and Elisabeth Shue willingly sweat alongside the hoi polloi in Kest's packed, ancient loft studio. If you don't happen to be in the neighborhood, not to worry: Kest's yoga videos are nearly as good as being there. Volume 1: Energize is a beginner level class that nonetheless is smartly designed to provide challenges for all levels of users. Kest's Jersey-boy voice at first seems in contrast to the serene environment and inner-peace objectives, but it gradually becomes soothing and hypnotic in its own right. Stretches and strengthening moves are alternated with just enough repose to keep even first timers on track. After mastering Vol. 1, practitioners can go on to Volume 2: Tone or Volume 3: Sweat to further challenge themselves. As long as you keep in mind Kest's personal mantra--"If you're doing the best you can, you're doing this class perfectly"--you and this video should have many satisfying years of workouts together. --Anne Hurley

A.M. and P.M. Yoga

A.M. Yoga for Beginners
"The morning is a precious time," says the narrator of A.M. Yoga for Beginners. "Just as the sun rises and falls, so do our natural rhythms. The morning is perfect time to open our bodies and center our minds." This 20-minute yoga practice with supple instructor Rodney Yee is the perfect way to start your day by energizing your body and calming your mind. Filmed on the beach at Maui at sunrise, the video starts with a 4-minute Conscious Relaxation focusing on breathing, then glides into a 14-minute series of yoga poses that are simultaneously relaxing and energizing. It ends with a 2-minute seated Guided Meditation to center your body and mind. Yee's instruction is detailed and gentle. The video is beautifully filmed: you watch the waves roll in as Yee demonstrates yoga poses on a sandy beach. The yoga practice awakens and stretches your muscles gently, leaving you balanced and focused. "Yoga is the foundation of my day," says Yee. "A few minutes in the morning will help give meaning to your day." --Joan Price

P.M. Yoga for Beginners
"The evening is the perfect time to calmly transition between being active and being quiet," says Patricia Walden, instructor of P.M. Yoga for Beginners. "One of the greatest gifts yoga has to offer is deep relaxation." This 20-minute program is designed to balance, calm, and revitalize you at the end of the day. It starts with centering poses: gentle stretches bringing awareness and quiet to your senses. Next are standing poses to release tension, increase circulation, expand the lungs, and help you breathe more deeply. Next, forward bends cool the body and bring quiet to the nervous system. The final restorative poses are so relaxing that you may fall asleep. Walden tells you not only how to do the poses, but what you should feel, and how to quiet your body and your mind. Instruction is soothing and explicit. Although this video is aimed at beginners, seldom are modifications given for the less flexible novice, so if any pose causes discomfort or seems impossible, don't push beyond your personal comfort level. The video was filmed on the windswept sands of Death Valley. --Joan Price

Denise Austin: Fit & Firm Pregnancy

Congratulations! You are beginning the most exciting and challenging chapter of your life: having a baby! But that doesn't mean you can't stay in shape. With Fit & Firm: Pregnancy, fitness icon (and the mother of two) Denise Austin delivers an energy-boosting program that focuses on everyday strength, "perfect pregnancy posture" and reshaping your after-baby body! Breathing and Core Awareness: Stimulate your core muscles and elevate your spirit during this 5-minute preparatory segment. Cardio Workout: Give your energy a boost with this low-impact, fun, 20-minute, heart-healthy workout adapted for all three trimesters. 1st - 2nd Trimester Toning: Rejuvenate and sculpt your body from head to toe with 20 minutes of prenatal-fitness fun! 3rd Trimester Toning: Soothe sore muscles and maintain core strength with this 20-minute, refreshing workout that helps prepare you for delivery! "Bonus" Post Bounce-Back Workout: Bounce back fast with this 10-minute, invigorating routine that re-educates the abs for a waist-slimming workout.

Hit the Spot - Pilates

In Hit The Spot - Pilates Denise Austin America's favorite fitness expert has designed a series of workouts that let you target specific areas of your body all with a Pilates to trim shape and tone the areas of your body that need it most. Denise's program allows you to customize your routine by selecting the exercises you want in the order you want them to play. Choose from seen different workouts: core abs and waistline power abs hips thighs and buns plus a bonus segment.The Abs and Waist Line gives you a choice of three 10-minute workouts each more intense than the other. All three segments concentrate on the technique that will help you define your abs and trim your waist while improving your posture.The Lower Body: Hips Thighs and Buttocks includes one 10-minute hips workout one 10-minute thigh workout and one 10-minute buttocks workout. These workouts will allow you to continue to strengthen your core muscles while slimming and firming the bottom half.System Requirements: Running Time 81 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR UPC: 012236181422 Manufacturer No: 18142

A.M. Yoga for Your Week

DVD INCLUDES:Five 20-minute focused morning routinesWorkout appropriate for all skill levelsDaily variety for your yoga practiceBONUS! Daily deep breathing & meditation guideSystem Requirements:Running Time: 110 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS/YOGA UPC: 018713528995 Manufacturer No: 05-52899

Power Yoga - Flexibility

Regain and extend the easy sense of fluid motion that keeps you doing the things you love to do. In Power Yoga: Flexibility acclaimed instructor Rodney Yee shows you how to use his distinctive style of Power Yoga to restore and make the most of your body s fullest range of motion. Follow Rodney through a quick deep-stretching yoga workout you can do in less than half an hour a remarkable antidote anytime you feel stiff tight or limited in your agility. With this workout you ll release lengthen and noticeably improve suppleness in both large and small muscles throughout your body and stretch all of the major joints. Whether you re an athlete just like to stay active or want to feel less stiff and tight as you move through your day this practice will help you use your strength more efficiently and move more freely with less pain soreness and risk of injury. Rodney s signature style of flowing Power Yoga will fill you with a new sense of fluidity mobility and power to affect how you feel and how your body keeps up with you. Practice regularly and you ll find this flexibility workout a rewarding way to extend your possibilities. A complete 25-minute workout filmed in dramatic Joshua Tree National Park: move through flowing Sun Salutations to flex and warm up deeply stretch muscles and joints in fluid energetic sequences relax completely as you clear and calm your mind.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR UPC: 029956740204 Manufacturer No: 120-2280

Denise Austin: Boot Camp - Total Body Blast

In BOOT CAMP: TOTAL BODY BLAST your personal drill sergeant Denise Austin will transform your body into a fat-burning furnace with dynamic intervals of punches kicks and power drills! Banish flab burn mega calories and sculpt a champion body with Denise's unique blend of cardio strength training and FUN! The DVD includes: CARDIO BOOT CAMP: Blast into shape with this 20-minute high-energy workout that interchanges short bursts of cardio with longer workout periods that combine kickboxing sports drills and calorie-crunching calisthenics! STRENGTH BOOT CAMP: Experience another level of interval training with this explosive 20-minute workout that alternates strengthening exercises (using hand weights) with heart-pounding cardio boosts to incinerate fat and keep your heart-rate soaring! FLEXIBILITY: Look and feel better than ever with this 10-minute series of active isolated stretching moves and techniques designed to improve your posture flexibility and overall athletic performance!System Requirements:Run Time: 50 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR UPC: 012236205876 Manufacturer No: 20587

Shrink Your Female Fat Zones

Get ready to zero in on the zones and shrink the fat cells in places you never thought you could!America's favorite fitness authority Denise Austin has created the perfect workout to help target those tough spots where we tend to accumulate the most fat: hips thighs upper arms tummy and buns. You'll get a complete abs upper and lower body workout that will sculpt and contour your muscles boost metabolism and lose inches. If you're ready to banish the bulge and create flattering curves in all the right places go ahead and take aim at the zones toady! You've got nothing to lose but fat!2 Complete 20-minute Workouts: 20 minutes of metabolism-boosting exercises to dissolve bra lines create sexier arms chest shoulders and trims hips thighs and buns. Plus you'll get great results from targeted lower tummy trimmers! 20 minutes with the use of a stability ball will transform your body and help you lose inches around the midsection through a series of tummy-flattening workouts. Shrink your thighs and hips with inner and outer thigh toners!System Requirements: Running Time 40 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR UPC: 012236143123 Manufacturer No: 14312

Yoga Conditioning for Weight Loss - Deluxe DVD Edition

Title notwithstanding, Yoga Conditioning for Weight Loss isn't likely to promote weight loss any more than lots of other videos will. But that's not a knock--it merely reflects the fact that anyone who practices yoga regularly and conscientiously can both shave off some extra pounds and significantly reshape his or her body. With four different instructors simultaneously demonstrating a single program, each providing different modifications of the same poses, Yoga Conditioning for Weight Loss delivers a thorough, well-organized practice that can be undertaken by users at all levels of experience, fitness, and flexibility. After a gradual warm-up sequence, Suzanne Deason and her fellow instructors lead you through a series of standing asanas, back and forward bends, twists, and so on, with the proper technique and function of each pose explained clearly and concisely. The result is a workout that's challenging but not overwhelming and that should stand up to plenty of repeated use. All in all, another good offering from Living Arts. --Kelly Welldon

In addition to stretching, meditation and stress reduction, yoga has many therapeutic benefits including the power to help you naturally lose wieght and keep it off. Led by acclaimed yoga instructor Suzanne Deason, Living Arts' "Yoga Conditioning for Weight Loss" accommodates all levels of fitness and flexibility by offering four levels of modification. With a click of a button, you can access any level workout fully modified, partially modified, slightly modified and full postures and receive more detailed instruction on the most challenging poses. Committing to follow this 45-minute program of safe, natural weight loss methods can help you start looking and feeling great in no time! Four 45-minute workout variations give you room to improve your level of fitness.