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It’s Week 6 – Day 1 and I decided to try one of the new Yoga Zone DVDs that I bought for my SIL.  Well, she won’t be here to claim them until Chinese New Year so I might as well test them out for faults or something.  That way I can take them back for an exchange if there’s anything wrong with them.

I was supposed to start on Monday after taking both Saturday and Sunday off last week.  Ideally, I’m trying not to have two break days in a row so that I don’t develop a habit of skipping my workout, so having three break days in a row was simply sacrilege.  The fact that it was a public holiday was an ever poorer excuse for why I didn’t workout.

Anyway, what’s done is done.  The good thing is that I got started yesterday.  I did a 30 minute workout from Yoga Zone: Yoga for Weightloss.  The DVD is intended for beginners and the full program runs for approximately 55 minutes. 

Unlike the other Yoga Zone DVDs I have, this workout isn’t broken up into two 20 minutes workout sessions.  Instead it is split into two main workouts – a 30 minute weightloss workout and a 20 minute bonus for conditioning the body.  You can elect to do various parts of each workout to customise your own workout but I never do.

Despite it being a beginner DVD, I thought the workout was still pretty challenging.  If I thought I was going to breeze through this DVD simply because it had the word “beginner” written on it, I certainly thought wrong.  Perhaps I overestimate my abilities, or perhaps the DVD really is more challenging than it appears at first site.  Even before the end of the “awkward chair” pose, I was already begging to stop because my thighs were burning.  This is probably why I didn’t end up doing the conditioning bonus exercise, even though I had planned to when I first inserted the disc into the DVD player.  My body was pretty much done by the end of the first 30 minutes.

The poses were basically pretty simple ones but the effort required to hold them was a bit more than I had anticipated.  As reflected in any beginner DVD, they take you through each move slowly with lots of explanations on how to do each pose correctly.  They also run through the program with the simplified pose and the more challenging option which allows you to tailor the workout to your personal level of fitness.  I’m pleased to note that I was able to stick with the more challenging options all the way through even if it was a bit of a struggle.

To think I had bought those Rodney Yee Power Yoga DVDs thinking I wanted a more challenging yoga workout and here I am still struggling with the beginner’s workout!  Looks like I might not be putting the Rodney Yee yoga DVDs to use any time soon.

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