The Broga franchise, for one, now has franchises in 13 states. The promised cardio- and fat-burning benefits are less certain. A study found that performing vigorous ashtanga-style yoga only increased heart rate by about 30 beats per minute over resting, comparable to walking, but nowhere near running, swimming, or spinning.
An excellent book for beginers and even intermediate students of yoga. With well constructed workouts. Yes their will be a couple of Diamond cutters in it too. Great book. Hope there will be a follow up book. Jul 30, Steven R. Some books have an immediate impact on your life. It changes your way of thinking, your goals, and your focus.
This is one of those books. I started implementing stuff from the book before finishing it. I also started back at the beginning and reread it straight through a second time. Fortunately I happened upon the book by chance. Arthur's Inspirational Transformation! I found out that it started with a book. And being a bibliophile I had to check out the book. So I got a copy and started read and rereading.
I have been back and forth through the book a number of times in a short time. The book has a hilarious forward by Rob Zombie. If you're a couch potato you can start, if you're active you can take it to the next level, if you're an athlete it will only help improve your game and performance! At the time of writing this I have been doing Yoga with DDP intermittently for 2 months and then every day for 20 days, I am down 17lbs and feel better than I have in a long time.
In that time my shoulder that has bothered me off and on for years because of a torn rotator cuff is better than it has ever been. My mood and energy is way up. And I have talked a number of people into giving it a try. So far they have all loved it. DDP states that he wrote the book to help regular guys and regular gals.
You can read success stories, join groups and forums, and there is a continuous online life chat on the go. The book features 15 people showing the moves, many of the moves are in the book more than once in different routines and programs, often with different people showing them. These 15 people range from retired military, to musicians. All kinds of people have seen improvement in their health and life through following DDP's programs.
Musicians, retired wrestlers, pro wrestlers, pro ball players, and regular guys and gals like me and you! If you read this book and apply only some of it you will have achieved positive changes in your life. If you apply most of it, who knows the amazing changes you can achieve, and through that the impact and influence you can have on friends and family through your transformation!
Read the review and other health and fitness reviews on my blog Book Reviews and More. This is not your regular yoga book! But it's not a joke either. It's a serious workout. Page wrote the book with Dr. Craig Aaron and even got Rob Zombie to write the Foreword.
I found a copy at a used book store and am very glad I did. First off, the book is aimed at guys. This should be obvious by the title. Wit This is not your regular yoga book! With that said, there are a few tid bits of locker room humor, but nothing that bad, and as the covers states, there are yoga babes included. Page begins by making his personal case in regards to doing yoga.
Why he started, what it's done for him, and why he thinks it is the best workout you can do. His case is compelling.
I agree that yoga is great for you and I hope Page is able to get a lot of regular guys to check this form of exercise and stretching out. He then goes into the first lesson on breathing.
This is so important and I'm glad it was included. If it hadn't, I'd question the book. The bulk of the book is devoted to three routines. The 20 minute workout section, the 30 minute workout section, and the 45 minute workout section. Each of these provides pictures and short descriptions to follow along with and learn the routines. The pictures and descriptions are good, but those that have taken classes or watched DVDs will have an advantage.
It is a lot easier to learn movements that way rather than from a book. But for a book, this one is done well. It also has a few pages of the workouts at a glance. These have the pictures without the descriptions to help you remember the sequence of moves. Finally, there is a little inspiration and motivation. Throughout the book there are side boxes by Dr. Aaron Yoga-Doc says Yoga really is good exercise and you can now take it from Diamond Dallas Page, it's for regular guys, too.
If you have ever been interested in trying yoga, or adding it to your workout regimen, this book might be just what you need to get off the couch and onto the yoga mat. I enjoyed reading it and am including Page's yoga workouts into my weekly exercise and stretching. Read it and see what yoga can do for you.
I was hopeful to learn more in depth about the nutrition and other aspects, but that was minimal. If you haven't done the workout, I highly recommend this book as a beginner's guide. If you are already well ingrained in the program, this might add a little, but not nearly what I hoped it would.
Very assessable for a guy who cringes at the thought of "pretzel poses. Lots of pictures and descriptions and some videos online and a DVD available, of course. He never says Yoga is "easy," but was eloquent about the benefits and how guys should approach it and do it.
In this programme, Dallas describes how you should feel, how the muscles should feel inside your body and so on. Dallas does an awesome job of helping you get the most from this programme by submerging you as deeply into it as possible. Gives Examples: Something I really liked was the way that someone else would demonstrate and Dallas would explain what was a good or bad way of doing the exercise and Dallas would break down the exercise and show the muscles being used.
This allowed me to get a deeper understanding of the exercise and know whether I was doing it right or wrong. It was great as by Dallas doing this style of explanation, you become more in tune with your body as you feel the exercise rather than try and do as you remember. Cool Names: One of the problems that I found with original yoga were the names.
They were all so flowery and either too spiritual or girly for my taste. It was hard to take it serious when you were told to get into certain positions that made you question your masculinity. There is still some traditional yoga terminology in there but Dallas has mixed this up with names taken from wrestling holds and the like. You notice little bits of fat leave here and there and your muscles feel like they can contract tighter and overall you feel fitter and stronger, with spikes in how flexible you are.
Yet, you hardly feel as if you are working out. Too often, a workout programme must be followed for a few months to see any changes and the impact it has on your body causing you to stop due to fatigue or wear and tear.
Different Levels of the Exercises: A lot of the exercises chosen can be altered to suit differing levels of fitness. For example, the slow push-ups can be done either with the legs fully extended or on the knees. This customisation to suit various fitness levels, allows the programme to be available to all people regardless of how fit they currently are.
It was cool to see on the DVD how originally some of the demonstrators struggled when they started the programme and how far they had come after following the programme for a while.
It will show you where the flaws in your fitness are and what you need to work on. Breathing: It was very difficult at times to remember about the demonstrate breathing patterns.
There is an introductory video on breathing and then it is not mentioned during the exercise demonstrations. I think that it would helped if how to breathe during the exercise was mentioned at the same time as how to do the exercise. This way, you would learn the moves and lock in the breathing technique as you learned the moves. Breathing sounds so simple but when you have so much else to concentrate on, it would have helped to have even a gentle reminder about breathing now and then when they were explaining the exercises.
Difficult to keep up at times: There were times when Dallas would perform an exercise or a demonstrator would and demonstrate the full movement through and then you were invited to perform the same move with him after watching the demonstrations. Unfortunately, not all of the moves were like this.
Some went straight into you being asked to do the move at the same time.
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