Power Yoga - Strength
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Movie Reviews of Power Yoga - Strength
Movie Review: Good twenty-four minute power/strength yoga workout - no frills
Summary: 4 Stars
This DVD is one of Rodney Yee's earlier yoga DVDs, and it shows a bit. While shot on glorious Maui, the production is a bit more grainy than some of Yee's later projects ("Yoga Core," "Yoga Burn,"), etc.
But you don't buy yoga DVDs for their glossy productions - you buy them for the workout. And this is a darn good beginner workout, focusing on building strength through fairly quick but smooth transitions.
This workout features a lot of sun salutations, flowing from standing mountain pose through lunges through upward dog and into downward dog. All these poses are achievable by the beginner, although a newbie should probably watch it through once before trying the workout because Yee goes pretty fast through his paces. Lots of back and arm-work gets worked into the mix, and you're sure to have your heart rate elevated to a nice degree.
To be fair, there are a couple of poses where the word "beginner" doesn't apply - Yee supports his entire body in squat positions on his hands. No yoga beginner I know could do anything approaching these moves, but they are nice aspirational poses for us beginners to shoot for.
All in all, this is a nice short yoga DVD. If you have to pick just one yoga DVD, it shouldn't be this one, but at this price it's a good buy to fit into your larger collection.
Movie Review: A great addition to your collection
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this workout because it really guides and focus's on your entire upper body that I need to maintain. Rodney shows you step-by-step challenging arm balance poses from your core strength. He stands true in defining a greater balance with this workout.
Rodney shows you step-by-step challenging arm balance poses that I'm always afraid to tempt but I got over it once I got the hang of it. This challenge help defined a more lean appearance of muscle providing a great sense of balance. You can feel the empowering effects by using your own body weight on this course. This also helps build resistance to each move. The rapid sequencing is designed to increase power and adds a fat-burning aerobic benefit for a complete, satisfying yoga workout. At the end of this 24-minute workout you feel relax and empowered .
This is a great practice that I also recommend into your collection. When you get back to your other workouts you will feel an amazing difference in your strength, balance, and flexibility. Great for intermediate yogis wanting to boost upper body strength and burn fat with fluid, fast-paced sequences. However, if you are used to a slower-moving, power yoga style, this video is not for you.
Movie Review: Great workout out, but not for beginners
Summary: 4 Stars
This dvd is a good, challenging workout that I feel good about doing, but I wouldn't say that it's for beginners because Rodney doesn't teach you each pose step by step and he has some difficult poses such as crow and pendulum thrown in there. The workout is basically sun salutation with some other poses mixed in. It does work your upper body; at the end of it I can feel my arms tiring. He also goes a little fast from pose to pose, but after doing the workout a couple times it doesn't seem so fast. I do like that he uses a voice over to call out the poses and doesn't include a lot of extra chit chat. Also, the relaxation at the end is very short and I think it could have been longer.Movie Review: Beginners Be Ready for a Challenge!
Summary: 4 Stars
Whoa, Rodney, this is for beginners? OK, yes, I feel great after doing the workout. But this is definitely not for anyone who has never taken a yoga class and who doesn't know at least the basic poses. How anyone can support their body weight doing the legs-elevated poses (e.g., pendulum pose) is beyond me. This will probably prove to be especially difficult for women without extremely strong arm and shoulder muscles. I found myself doing modifications on those poses because my jaw dropped watching Rodney Yee doing them effortlessly and calling them "simple."
This is very fast-paced, also, but it seems less so after doing it a few times.
Movie Review: Ditto earlier reviews
Summary: 4 Stars
Positives:
Works on your upper body--a lot!
Laid-back voice-over narration
Beautiful setting
Rapid flow almost moves into a cardio workout for short periods
Challenging enough to give me goals to work toward
Negatives:
Voice-over narration is behind on-screen poses much of the time
Difficult poses, particularly for a "beginner" DVD
Overall, this is a good DVD to use as a variation from other yoga practices, but I don't think I'd want to use it daily because of the level of difficulty for me and the voice-over problems.