Kristina Nekyia Get Bent - Thoughts

Get Bent is advertised as "circus style flexibility training" and there is a bit of that but overall I thought this was a solid stretching and flexibility workout especially for the hips and shoulder.
The workout clocks in a around 55 minutes.  The DVD menu contains the following:
Play Fit & Bendy
Splits Tutorial
Intro
Warmup
Splits Prep
Splits
Shoulders
Backbends
Cool Down

Kristina uses yoga blocks to help with modifying the stretch and she used a wall for increase or deeper stretching.  There is some tough stretching going on here.   The back bend section was particularly tough for me.  As were the splits.  I particularly like the deep stretching for the shoulder which uses a wall to increase the stretch. The split prep section is a series of hamstring, inner thigh and hip stretches. Most stretches you are doing at least twice.  Kristina will have you do a particular stretch, come out of it and go back and repeat the sequence.

The set is a bit funky. The wall are a red pink mauve type of color that gives off a weird hue.  I enjoyed the music selection. It has an exotic eastern feel to it.

Kristina is narrating the workout and I thought she did an excellent job as her narration match what she was doing in the video.  She does have a unique way of describing moves.  Some stretches she would call "juicy".

I like that this workout has a distinct warm up and cool down. Often in stretch type workouts I feel these sections are lacking or it is hard to distinguish the warm up and cool down from the rest of the workout.  With that said, Kristina does include a one-minute plank hold in the cool down.

I like this workout.
4 & 1/2 stars

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