Sara Ivanhoe's 20 Min Yoga Makeover: Total Body Tone with Weights | Sara Ivanhoe

Sara Ivanhoe's 20 Min Yoga Makeover: Total Body Tone with Weights | Sara Ivanhoe | Add a toning aspect to your yoga practice

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	Sara Ivanhoe's 20 Min Yoga Makeover: Total Body Tone with Weights Sara Ivanhoe Goldhil Home Media, 2004 average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Two Workouts in One

Sara Ivanhoe has always impressed me with her teaching style and ability to present creative workouts in a relaxing setting. In this 20-minute workout you will be working your upper and lower body simultaneously. The setting is gorgeous and Sara's outfit colors make the entire scene look like an escape into paradise. As waves break on the shore, Sara leads you through a program that not only tests your balance, it tests your creativity and she has an exercise for your triceps that will have you wondering why you did that exercise any other way.

After years of exercising your muscles might get used to the same old exercises. With Sara's approach to yoga, you not only have challenging yoga poses to master; you can tone your upper body with weights.

There is a brief introduction, a warm-up session and then yoga with weights. A short stretching session allows your body to cool down.

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You can also just listen to the music from the yoga with music workout and continue stretching after the 20 minutes. If this is too short, you can combine it with other Sara Ivanhoe 20 minute workouts. In fact, she recommends you combine the workouts for maximum results. Walking for 30 -45 minutes before this workout is my personal recommendation. The additional balance challenge with the weights made me truly love this new approach to yoga.

Also highly recommended: Crunch Candlelight Yoga

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Add a toning aspect to your yoga practice

I was looking forward to trying this video, as I was hoping that the weights would be used to enhance the yoga poses. Instead, this is more of a yoga practice with some toning work thrown in. Instructor Sara Ivanhoe begins the practice with a few brief stretches in a standing position then picks up the weights. She leads you through some standing shoulder work in mountain, tree, and chair poses and ends the segment in eagle pose, which I found a bit awkward with the weights. Next comes a warrior series where you hold your legs in the warrior position while working your arms with bicep curls and flies. Sara also does side angle pose, using the weights in sort of a one-arm row to an overhead lift, which I felt was a nice shoulder opener.

Sara then moves to the floor with triceps/core balance work performed from a hands and knees position. Next comes bridge pose while "bench pressing" the weights; the second set is performed on one leg, which was particularly challenging. A few additional stretches bring the practice to an end right at 20 minutes. Throughout the practice, Sara uses 2-lb. weights; I used 3 lbs., which I felt were too heavy for some of the earlier shoulder moves yet too light for the biceps and triceps work. Sara's personality in this video is similar to her prior Crunch and Dummies videos: she is very down-to-earth, although some may find her language a bit patronizing at times. I don't think that this video would appeal to those who are devoted to a more traditional yoga practice, but if you are hoping to do some light strength work with yoga stretches thrown in, this routine might be right for you.

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