Miranda Esmonde-White Mobility & Bone Strengthening for Beginners - Thoughts

Mobility & Bone Strengthening for Beginners is part of the Age Reversing workout series. This DVD contains the same Instruction & How To's segments as the other Age Reversing DVD,  plus two workouts.

The Mobility workout clocks in at 28:53 and it is divided into two segments. A standing segment and a floor segment. 
The standing segments works all the joints in the body including the pectorals, toes, ankles and hips by moving slowing but with purpose. Miranda does clock workout and windmills for the spine and sides of the body.  The standing segment is around 18 minutes.

The floor segment uses a mat and optional risers and theraband.  The floor segment stretches the groin, hips, back and hamstrings.  The floor segment is around 10 minutes.

Strengthen Your Bones clocks in at 33:13.  This workout is really a full body workout that moves slowly as it hits the various parts of the body. There is a standing segment and barre segment. Shoulder rotation, full body roll ups, arm work, and finger work are exercises that appear in the standing segment which is about 9 minutes in length.

The barre work uses a chair and it is about 22 minutes in length.  Toes, feet, ankle, calves and shins are strengthen through various exercises.  There is hip work to include hip turns out, side lifts and hip cleaners. There is also a series of lunges - squash lunges, side lunges, and back diagonal lunges.  Miranda includes modified triceps dips and stretches for the spine.

I really like the Strengthen Your Bone workout.

Miranda is annoying as a cuer. You really have to watch the television to see when she moves on.  She is talking but not necessarily cuing and she will move on to a different move without telling you.
Also she does not do the same number of reps for each side.  Usually the second side is what gets shortchange.

Compared to her Classical Stretch series workouts, these workouts move at a much slower pace.

Mobility workout - 3 & 1/4 stars
Strengthen Your Bone - 4 & 1/4 stars

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