Yoga For Athletes
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Movie Reviews of Yoga For Athletes
Movie Review: Good workout
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this DVD for a family member who has been an athlete all his life and now wanted to try a new workout. He loves the fact that it offers workouts for different types of athletes and that there is a lot of choices for his sport, basketball. He continues to use it and recommended it to all his teammates!Movie Review: I like The DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
Lots of programs and workouts to fit every occasion. I have to admit have not really seen other DVDs such as this that are catered specifically to the athlete. There are challenging workouts and slower versions to fit your taste. Defintely had no complaints.Movie Review: Excellent variety, but practices feel a bit disjointed
Summary: 3 Stars
In Yoga for Athletes, instructor Barbara Benagh has created a huge variety of practice options for athletes and others. The DVD addresses 16 different sports (baseball, basketball, cycling, football, golf, hiking, kayaking, martial arts, rock climbing, running, skiing, soccer, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and weightlifting), and for each sport, 12 practices of varying lengths and with various areas of body/postural focus (eg, hips, legs, shouders, backbends, balance, twists, etc.). I think this is a great concept--although I don't play any particular sport, I love the idea of choosing a specific practice based on whatever type of focus I might want to have that day.
Unfortunately, I didn't think this DVD worked as well in actual practice. First of all, how the DVD works is that each and every pose is its own individual chapter (with a male model demonstrating and Barbara providing voiceover instruction). This means that the practices themselves are simply a series of the individual postures strung together with no transitions inbetween. To me, this made the practices feel very disjointed and without any flow to them. Secondly, Barbara's instruction is meticulously detailed, which is sometimes a good thing, sometimes not. For example, when I was lying in a relaxing, restorative posture (such as reclined eagle--this was very nice), I didn't mind and in fact appreciated Barbara's comprehensive cues on form. However, for some of the standing postures, I felt that my enjoyment of the full posture was delayed as I waited on Barbara's overly detailed setup.
Finally, I think that I have been spoiled by Barbara's more recent DVD release, Yoga for Stress Relief. This DVD follows a somewhat similar format, but all of the practices are restorative, and thus I really enjoy Barbara's detailed instruction here. However, Yoga for Athletes might be a better choice for those who are newer to yoga, prefer their yoga to be very straightforward and no-nonsense, and/or are looking for practices designed to their particular sport. Overall, Yoga for Athletes is a well-done DVD that I would recommend, but it's not for everyone--3 1/2 stars.
Movie Review: Good buuut....
Summary: 3 Stars
This workout is a little too slow for my taste; I think it's just this style, where it concentrates more on breathing instead of what I prefer, which is flowing from one pose to the next. My attention span is short; I don't do yoga because I love it, I do it because it's supposed to improve my swimming and surfing! The people who made it should know that athletes are used to a little more adrenaline; the tempo and style needs to be upped.That said; it definately has tons of different exercises and sequences, so you can choose something that is 20 minutes or 60 minutes, isolate certain muscles, work on your flexibility versus balance, etc. etc. Which is great. For someone who wants a lot of variety in one DVD, and has a certain patience and focus for yoga, this would be good. I am going to keep looking though
Movie Review: Misleading title
Summary: 3 Stars
This dvd has many yoga poses. The menu will take you to a specific subset of these poses by choosing a sport and/or body part to work. The pace is to hold each pose for 10-20 seconds, then switch to the next pose. If you are used to Iyengar classes, this will seem fimilliar -- for others though, it may lack movement and flow. The tone is relaxed and gentle, and the workout is average; nowhere near as challenging as, say Ashtanga yoga. There is decent instruction for each pose.
Overall, I think there are better products out there.