Re: CoreBox 1 / Rodney Yee Strength Building Yoga Session 1 / Slim in Six Pack

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Hi!

Good job - I like that modification to shoulder

stand/plough. It was one I used often. I did forget

to mention that when I did Yoga Beauty Body the other

day I was actually able to get pretty close to plough

(I still can't do shoulder stand, though). But I'm

getting better....I was much closer when I did yoga

more frequently.

Take care!

Donna

--- Pink Pussycat

wrote:

> Hi All!

>

> Knee still slightly twangy so I'm avoiding Debbie.

> I started the evening with a flawless run of the

> first half of CoreBox, so I'll probably do the first

> half of that this weekend and then the second half

> of class will be Turbo Kick Round 23 so we have the

> new with the familiar. I did this for around 35

> minutes.

>

> For strength, I picked a virgin: Rodney Yee Strength

> Buliding Yoga, Session 1, which was 45 minutes long.

> Another winner! This is similar to Yoga Burn in

> that you move slowly through the poses, but there is

> a more of a goal in mind with each series. This is

> an intermediate practice.

>

> The first part of the practice is slowly going

> through vinyasa, no warrior poses surprisingly! You

> hold downdog at one point for either 2 or 5 minutes.

> He mentioned both, and it sure felt more like 5!

> The planks and updogs weren't held as long however.

> Included in the flow later on were triangle and side

> angle stretch.

>

> The next part of the practice were inversions. FUN

> FUN FUN! You start by holding downdog again for

> awhile, then you move to your forearms to build up

> strength for shoulderstand. You go back and forth

> between these two poses, which felt great to me

> because my calves and legs are tight so this was

> also a terrific stretch as well as a strength

> builder.

>

> Next you get out blankets and a chair to work on

> plough pose. Kewl man! You put your head and

> shoulders on the blankets while you flip your feet

> over your head onto the chair, preparing for

> shoulderstand independent of the chair. Nice! I had

> to take a couple of breaks but was able to do it.

>

> After that are held bridge poses, and an almost

> non-existent shavasana.

>

> I think this is a mix and match from a longer

> practice of his diced up to make this dvd, but the

> background is the same. Before the practice starts

> there is a LONG scene of Rodney doing VERY difficult

> poses. It was neat to watch him do them! Were

> talking side angle crows to handstands and back and

> all sorts of yogic marvels!

>

> I wanted to make my strength workout closer to an

> hour so I popped in another virgin, Slim in Six

> Pack. What a SUPER add-on! I feel this one and

> like it better than 6 Minute Abs, but this one is

> twice as long so no wonder. Simple traditional gym

> crunches, very effective.

>

> So all in all I got an hour and a half in this

> evening. Tomorrow I'd like to do Danny Sullivan's

> Advanced workout on the bag and perhaps Session 2 of

> the yoga practice I did tonite.

>

> Hup Hup!

>

>

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