Sahra Esmondoe-White The Ultimate Stretch Workouts Disc 1 - Thoughts

Essentrics The Ultimate Stretch Workouts Disc 1 contains two 30-minute workouts.
The first workout is Muscle Activation Workout. It  clocks in at 29:12.

Activation is a slow moving workout that contains three segments: a standing segment, a floor segment and a bar segment.
The standing segment included shoulder and back contractions, plies, alternating lunge side reaches, hamstrings low back bend and reaches.  The standing segment is about 10-minutes.  In most of the exercises you are lengthening and strengthening at the same time.
The floor segment is the shortest segment.  It contains lying side hip reaches and leg lifts, hip socket rotations, front kicks, hip/knee blast, and groin, hip and spine stretches.  The floor segment is about 7-minutes.

The last segment is the barre segment.  Sahra starts the section by working on the feet, ankles, and calves.  Also included in the segment are quad, hip and hamstring stretches.  This segment is about 13 minutes.

The second workout is Muscle Release Workout.  Release clocks in at 31:35.  It starts with a standing segment that included stretches for the shoulder, side, chest, spine, abductors, and groin.  The standing segment is approximately 10 minutes.  The next segment is a floor segment.  Sahra starts this segment in the prone position where she takes your through a series of back stretches. She then moves into a seated groin stretch, lying hip stretches and seated hamstring spine rotation series.  Sahra repeats the whole floor work series before moving into a final quad, pigeon and calf stretch. The floor segment is approximately 20 minutes.

Activation - 3 & 1/2 stars
Release  - 3 & 1/2 stars

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