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Michelle Barnard Everyday Yoga Warrior - Thoughts

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Everyday Yoga Warrior is a 35-minute workout that is lead by Michelle Barnard.  The workout takes you through a series of yoga poses in a slow and methodical method.  The DVD offers you the option to play the workout with music or without music. The DVD Menu: Play All Intro Scene Selection       Warm up - 9 minutes       Sun Salutation - 5 minutes       Flowing warrior sequence - 9 minutes       Floor lengthening sequence - 9 minutes       Shavasana - 5 minutes Glossary Credits The glossary is a series of pictures that show the poses that you will do throughout the workout.  There are 12 glossary term.  Narration does come with each picture. The main workout does use voice over narration and for the most part the narration is in sync with what is happening on the screen. Michelle does tell you to move at your own pace. Also, there are many sets/scenery. Michelle is performing many iterations of the workout using different scenes (I don't think it is a green room sh

Strong By Zumba 20 Min Demo - Thoughts

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Bonus 20 Minute Strong By Zumba workout is a bonus workout included on the Strong by Zumba DVD.  Strong by Zumba is  High-Intensity Cardio & Tone workout that is set (choreograph) to the beat of the music.  The instructor is Ai Lee Syarief. The 20-Minute Demo is just a brief version of the 60-minute class. It includes its own warm up and cool down. The warm up was about 2 minutes and 15 seconds in length and the cool down is around 3 minutes. The 20-Minute Demo workout is chaptered. It also contains the Fired Up and Push Your Limits quadrants. Between the quadrants you get a recovery period. Each segments features two additional cast members but as the workout progresses, the cast members change in and out. There is NOT a modifier for the bonus workout. The moves are similar to the moves in the longer version of the workout.  I like the shorter version just a little bit better than the longer version. Oh I forgot to mentioned when I reviewed the 60 minute workout, that

Michelle Dozois Volume 1 On the Go Workouts - Thoughts

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On the Go Workouts  is a DVD containing workouts featuring Michelle Dozois. Michelle takes you through six 10-minute workouts. The workouts do not come with their own warm up, however Michelle does do some brief stretching at the end of a few of the segments. The DVD Menu: Play All Intro Warm Up Guide 01 Cardio HiiT #1 02 Cardio HiiT #2 03 Upper Body Blast 04 Lower Body Blast 05 Core on the Floor 06 Flow & Release The Warm Up Guide presents you with six different movements in the form of pictures. Michelle tells you to perform each of the moves in order for 30 seconds.  Once you feel warm, you can start any one of the workouts. There is also a Mix it Up Guide that comes with the DVD. This guide shows you how to create premixes out of the six workouts. The mixes range in time from 20 minutes to 60 minutes. During the HiiT workouts and Upper Body Blast, you are performing each exercise for about 45 seconds and then Michelle gives you a rest. She is usually explaining