Following my review of Rodney Yee’s Yoga for Beginners, my friend and I moved on to Rodney Yee’s A.M Yoga For Your Week. This DVD includes five twenty-minute workouts, each focusing on a different part of your body. These workouts include Standing Poses, Twists, Backbends, Forward Bends and Hip Openers. We did one workout each morning for a week.
I liked the idea of these workouts because my weight training experience tells me that it’s a good thing to work out different areas of your body on different days. Moving on to a different area each day allows the other areas of your body time to relax and rebuild, resulting in better muscle growth. I know that’s not the immediate goal of yoga but that’s my background and I was interested to see how these workouts went.
Although the workouts are good and thorough, I was struck by the fact that they lack any sort of warm up poses. Since they are supposed to be good for beginners I expected there to be either warm-ups or at least an instruction to do warm-ups before beginning the workout. Each workout ends with the expected relaxation or corpse pose so you get the cool down, but no warm-up. That surprised me.
Lack of warm-up aside, the workouts are very focused on the area of intention. I think this DVD would be good for working out kinks in a particular part of your body, creating an integrated workout, or perhaps for an end-of-the-day workout.
Rodney Yee certainly knows his yoga and I think this is a good DVD to add to your library. If you’re a beginner, I would urge you to look to another of your yoga DVDs for a good warm-up to partner with any of the workouts on this program. If you’re a more experienced yoga practitioner, be aware that you will need to do a sufficient warm-up before launching any of these workouts.
You can get this and many other excellent yoga DVDs at Gaiam.com as well as all sorts of interesting products related to living a more relaxing lifestyle. Check out this Solar Shoji Lantern. I love it!
I liked the idea of these workouts because my weight training experience tells me that it’s a good thing to work out different areas of your body on different days. Moving on to a different area each day allows the other areas of your body time to relax and rebuild, resulting in better muscle growth. I know that’s not the immediate goal of yoga but that’s my background and I was interested to see how these workouts went.
Although the workouts are good and thorough, I was struck by the fact that they lack any sort of warm up poses. Since they are supposed to be good for beginners I expected there to be either warm-ups or at least an instruction to do warm-ups before beginning the workout. Each workout ends with the expected relaxation or corpse pose so you get the cool down, but no warm-up. That surprised me.
Lack of warm-up aside, the workouts are very focused on the area of intention. I think this DVD would be good for working out kinks in a particular part of your body, creating an integrated workout, or perhaps for an end-of-the-day workout.
Rodney Yee certainly knows his yoga and I think this is a good DVD to add to your library. If you’re a beginner, I would urge you to look to another of your yoga DVDs for a good warm-up to partner with any of the workouts on this program. If you’re a more experienced yoga practitioner, be aware that you will need to do a sufficient warm-up before launching any of these workouts.
You can get this and many other excellent yoga DVDs at Gaiam.com as well as all sorts of interesting products related to living a more relaxing lifestyle. Check out this Solar Shoji Lantern. I love it!
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