Miranda Esmonde-White Posture & Pain-Relief for Beginners - Thoughts

Posture & Pain-Relief for Beginners is a group of workouts that are a part of Essentrics Age Reversing Workouts.
The DVD menu offers the following options:
Instructions & How To's
Posture
Pain Relief

The Instructions & How To's contain the following segments:
1) How to get the most of your workout
2) How to stand correctly on your feet
3) How to stand with proper posture
4) How to do exercises when in pain
5) Neutral C


 The Posture workout clocks in at 28:38.  Throughout the workout, Miranda spends quite a bit of time talking and explaining the workout as she proceeds slowing through the various moves.  There are two parts to this workout; a standing segment and a floor segment.  In the standing segment, this particular workout includes stretches for the back and shoulders.  There are a series of tai chi plies and side to side lunge stretches with overhead reaches.
The floor segment requires a mat, and optional block cushion, theraband and a donut cushion.   The floor segment features sit ups, bicycles, side leg lifts and glute and hamstring stretching.

The Pain Relief workout clocks in at 33:22.   Miranda tells you to stop the workout at the point you feel pain (if you do feel pain) and go back to the point of the workout just before the pain started.  She emphasize several times not to work through pain.
This workout moves very slowing and there are two parts to it.
There is a standing segment and a barre segment.  The standing segment is mostly about working the back, shoulder, fingers, wrist, and gentle movement.  The barre segment focused on the feet, ankles, hips and hamstrings.


Miranda does not cue very well. Several times in both workouts, she moved to a different move without saying that she was doing so.  While the workouts moves slowing enough that it was not a big deal, It is annoying to feel like I always have to keep my eyes on the television less I missed the transition. This really was annoying when I was actually performing a move where I could not look at the TV because of the position of the move.

Posture - 3 & 1/2 stars
Pain Relief - 3 stars


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Pro-Form 600 LT Treadmill - Thoughts

Image
The Pro-Form 600 LT Treadmill is HSN and Pro-Form 2011 model treadmill. Each year HSN brings out a new Pro-Form model to sale. On the HSN website the treadmill is called Pro-Form Step Up Personal Trainer Treadmill. The price of this treadmill is $699.95 and the Shipping & Handling is free. I have had this treadmill since May. Assembly is required. It took me and another about an hour, maybe a little less to put it together. The instructions are fairly detail and everything went together as it should. I had the 2007 model of this treadmill, but I like the advertised upgrades so much I decided to get this one. Pre-Program Work outs The 2011 model comes with 16 Pre-program workouts. Of the 16, 4 are distance, 5 are timed, and 7 are calorie burned workouts. The distance workouts are 1 mile, 5K, 10K, and 1/2 Marathon. The time workouts are 20 min, 25 min, 30 min, 45 min The calorie workouts that are broken down by time are 20 min, 25 min, 30 min, 40 min, 45 min, and two 60 min
Read more

21 Day Fix Disc 1 - Review

Image
Disc 1 of the 21 Day Fix Workout System features the following workouts: Total Body Cardio Fix Upper Fix Lower Fix Pilates Fix 10 Minute Fix For Abs Overall, all workouts follow a similar pattern which is a series of rounds containing two exercises each and you repeat the round before moving on.You perform each exercise for roughly a minute and you get a 15 to 20 second rest between the exercises. Also, like most Beachbody systems, each workout contains the countdown timer in the lower right corner.  These workouts also contain subtitles that tell you which exercises you are doing and it tells you for how long and/or how many reps.  Love this feature. Total Body Cardio Fix , Upper Fix , and Lower Fix contain the same warm up moves and cool down moves.  Roughly the warm up and cool down runs around 3 minutes per workout.  Also all three of these workout use weights.  Pilates Fix is made up of a series of exercises as oppose to rounds.  Depending on the exercise you will
Read more

Tony Horton P90X Legs & Back - Review

Image
This is my second week of P90X workouts and it starts with disc 5, Legs & Back . There are 22 exercises.  For every two leg exercises, there is one back exercise. So the pattern is - do two legs and then 1 back exercise. There are a variety of legs exercises but all the back exercises are pull up/chin up exercises. There is a cardio warm up followed by a stretch.  Then you move into the 22 exercises, each of which has a time associated with it. Sometimes you are doing as many reps as you can and at other times, Tony gives you an exact rep number he wants you to perform.  A stretch cool down concludes the workout. While I was sore after this workout and felt the challenge, I really didn't care for a lot of the exercises in this workout. The workout clocks in at around 59 minutes. Equipment used:  pull up bar,  bands, weights. 2 & 3/4 stars
Read more