Yoga for abs

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I decided to try the yoga for abs. I really did feel the moves in my abs

and enjoyed the workout. I imagine that its a rather easy workout if you

have great abs but for us flab abs people you can really feel it. I

liked that they instructor explained not only how to do the pose but how

not to do the pose and where you should feel it. That helped a lot for

me and I managed to get into and hold poses I have been having problems

with. I often shake in my weak areas when doing some poses and I was

assured that was ok, it meant I was doing it right. I did the first

workout and then previewed the second one. The second one looks a bit

harder. But both are probably rather easy if you have nice strong abs to

begin with. There is also a major downside to the dvds - there are two

workouts but you can only start at the beginning, so you have to skip

until you hit the second one - I find this mildly annoying. Some of the

poses weren't really what I would have thought of as ab poses, but with

the proper direction I could see how they were working the ab areas (ie

all the talk brings awareness into the ab region). I am doubtful that

doing these without any other ab workout would result in strong abs but

I can see how they do tone the area. At the moment I am debating placing

this as an ab toning exercise to be used in rotation with other ab

toning tapes or a yoga tape to be used in rotation with other yoga

tapes. It all used to be cut and dry Toning (subdivided into abs, lower

body and upper body), Stretch and Aerobics. Now there is toning with

aerobics, aerobics with toning, dance aerobics, yoga (which to me seems

a cross between stretch and toning), Pilates (I classify it as toning

of abs and lower body) and combination workouts. Luckily I don't have

many dvds to rotate or I would be really confused:) I have a box that

holds 300 dvds and I have less than 20 right now:) But it helps me

divide the dvds into type so I can find them easier:) As long as I

remember where I filed them lol.

I'm off to Cardio Shimmy (bellydance workout) and then see if I feel up

to trying a stress relaxation workout before collapsing in bed. I have

really bad cramps, but it makes it worse not to workout. Normally I

spend 2 hours a day doing some sort of workout (my very special me time)

but with cramps I cut back to 1 to 1 1/2 hours.