Yoga Zone: Strengthen and Tone

I love Yoga Zone Videos and DVDs. I find they are excellent for beginners and easy to follow without hurting myself. There are two 20 minute sessions on each video or DVD. I try to warm up every morning with a short Yoga practice. I do a 20 minute session during my lunch break. I try to do a session before I go to bed. I find that when I practice YOGA everyday it really helps to alleviate my body aches and pain that I have from sitting and working at a computer all day. If I stop practing yoga, the pain comes back and then I pull out my YOGA Zone videos and DVDs and start my practicing all over again.

Excellent series!, every yoga zone dvd has been loads of fun and instructive! My favorite series in 20 minute increments! I do one a day and love them all!

I have recently bought a number of Yoga DVD's, including Gurmukh's Kundalini Yoga, Brian Kest's Power Yoga, and Shiva Rea's Yoga Shakti. I am an enthusiastic beginner, so I thought that this DVD would be perfect for me.While I enjoyed the upbeat, sympathetic vibe of the women who were leading the routine, I didn't feel that it really provided much of a challenge. I'm 26 and in decent shape, so perhaps this will be perfect for me in 20 years; I don't know. But I'm looking for a challenging yoga routine at this point in my life - one that really works to improve my balance and strength and cultivates heat. I simply did not get that from this DVD. The second routine, which concentrates on the upper body, was more challenging than the first lower body routine, but it still didn't get me very far. Just as we'd be getting into a pose and really feeling it, we would move on to something else. I never felt I got into any kind of rhythm, and I never felt like my muscles were really working hard.I much prefer the other three DVD's I mentioned, which are invigorating and ambitious. Yoga Zone: Strengthen and Tone just didn't provide what I was looking for.

Watch the video first, don't even try to do the poses. Then try to follow along, and be prepared to either rewind or skip.And if you have any arm or shoulder injuries, be aware that many yoga poses require you to put weight on sensitive joints. Make sure you talk to a doctor if you have any of these issues and stop if it hurts.

Commercials? Really? Not one, but two of them in each 20 minute segment. Totally ruined this for me. When I pay for a DVD, I don't want commercials every 10 minutes. I dealt with it about twice and then became so annoyed, I just threw them out.

One of my favorite parts of this video is that it features 2 20-minute sessions; I don't always have time for a long workout, but there's usually a way to clear 20 minutes.Also, despite the fact that the sections are short, I personally feel like I've completed a good workout when I finish, and gotten some good toning/strengthening done.I've been doing yoga for less than a year, however, so YMMV.

Great yoga video!

Great DVD. I have done so many workout tapes/dvds because I get so bored working out. I really enjoyed this workout and it will be awhile before I feel I need to move on to something else. I have been doing yoga for awhile so I am a bit above a beginner and this workout can be as challenging as you want to make it. I wish is has some specific ab poses but I still felt my abs get a workout with the other poses. I will be ordering more Yoga Zone DVDs.

I tend to find all exercise videos pretty annoying, but not Yoga Zone, and especially not this DVD! I enjoy yoga but still do not practice regularly. This DVD whether I use it once a month or once every couple days stills is able to be challenging. I would recommend this DVD, or the Yoga Zone series in general, to anyone looked for a video to complement their regular exercise routine, or to start a new one. And the DVD works great if you're strapped for time as it has 2 20 minute 'classes' - one for the arms and back and one for legs. So if you only have 20 minutes you can still fit in a full routine.