A follow up to Shiva’s hit workout Creative Core Abs
"Transformative . . . fun, with nary a crunch in sight" -- body + soul
The fun way to fire up your core!
A strong core means more than flat abs. Flexibility, endurance, a toned body, even a healthy heart depend on your core. World-renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea shows you a creative way to strengthen your core without the usual tedious ab exercises. In this program, she focuses on both the core and the lower body, using graceful yoga-based movements that ignite your inner fire.
As you flow from one pose to another, you’ll strengthen your belly, hips, thighs, and lower back. You’ll feel grounded and filled with vital energy. Quick, fun, effective—filmed in gorgeous Limahuli Garden on the island of Kauai—this core program will become one of your favorite ways to work out.
Creative Roots 13 min. Creative Core 9 min. Shavasana 2 min.
BONUS SEGMENT: Foundation Vinyasa (13 min.) from Shiva’s flow yoga program Fluid Power.
"A breath of fresh air and insanely challenging" - FitSugar.com
Stills from Shiva Rea: Creative Core & Lower Body (click for larger image)
Target your trouble spots and have fun while you do it. This joyful dance program is specifically designed to give you strong, lean dancer legs.
You’ll lose yourself in the rhythm as you lift and shape your backside, tone your hips and thighs, and strengthen your physique. From hip sways to high kicks, the simple routines will make you feel amazing in your own body.
The two 20-minute workouts can be done separately or together -- whatever works for you. As you dance to the irresistible music, you’ll slim down, tone up, increase your flexibility, and decrease your stress. Soon your legs will be turning heads wherever they take you.
Warm-Up: 5 min. Heavenly Hips: 20 min. Lovely Legs: 20 min. Cool Down: 5 min.
Stills from Dance and Be Fit: Lower Body Burn (click for larger image)
About this product: I have been using this for a bit now, and I promise you it's tightening up the butt and shaping the thighs--hence the title. These are the focus areas. If you don't have resistance bands, you will need them, unless you want to use free weights (around 3-5 lbs). I recommend bands because they put more emphasis on resistance instead of just lifting. The resistance bands will work the quads, hamstrings and gluteus muscles on all sides as opposed to how just using free weights would. In other words, you have resistance on lifting the leg outward in one exercise, as well as bringing it back down because one has to control that resistance band while working it in both directions to make it effective. As long as you show that band who the boss is by maintaining tension in it, you'll see results!
Some people like the longer cardio based workouts which are great also. However, this is specifically a TARGET TONING video. It's designed for one thing and that is to target the lower body, period! If you want more of a total body workout, you'll need dvd's such as 3T, cardio party, Turbo Sculpt, etc...
About this product: Criterion's two-disc double bill of The Lower Depths provides a scintillating lesson in comparative cinema. When Jean Renoir adapted Maxim Gorky's acclaimed 1902 play in 1936, he changed the setting from Czarist Russia to an unspecified French slum, casting the great Jean Gabin as a thief struggling to rise from his misery, and Louis Jouvet as the benevolent Baron, a flat-broke gambler on a downward social spiral. Renoir altered the play considerably, retaining its serious tone while infusing it with his trademark warmth and humanity. Two decades later, Kurosawa remained faithful to Gorky while daring to craft The Lower Depths as a comedy, in which Edo-period peasants (including Toshiro Mifune, in Gabin's role) concoct lavish illusions to ease the burden of their impoverished reality. While both films remained relatively overlooked during the careers of their creators, Criterion's DVD restores them to the prominence they deserve.
Both films have been meticulously restored and remastered to Criterion's high standards; Renoir's film still shows its age, but it will never look or sound better than it does here, and Renoir provides an informative introduction culled from the same archival materials featured on Criterion's The Rules of the Game DVD. Better yet, Kurosawa's film is accompanied by a superb commentary by peerless Japanese film scholar Donald Richie, who provides a feature-length treasury of anecdotes (he had actually visited Kurosawa's set in 1957), thematic analysis, production history, and scholarly insight. A 33-minute excerpt from the Japanese TV series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create offers rare interview clips with Kurosawa and surviving members of his cast, along with script, art design, and storyboard details to illustrate Kurosawa's creative process. Kurosawa expert Stephen Prince profiles the esteemed cast of the 1957 film, and exclusive essays about both films are included in the accompanying booklet. As a kind of Rorschach test for each director's approach to style and theme, The Lower Depths offers a back-to-back master class in the art of adaptation. --Jeff Shannon
About this product: Plot Outline: From the filmmakers who brought you CITY OF GOD and THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, comes this sexy Brazilian drama chronicling a love triangle between two best friends, Deco and Naldinho (CARANDIRU’s Lázaro Ramos and Wagner Moura), and a sultry, beautiful young girl, Karinna (Alice Braga, CITY OF GOD). Burdened with unbridled passion, the threesome navigates the "lower city" of tropical Salvador Bahia, stumbling through a treacherous landscape of sex and jealousy. Suffocated and unable to go on, the three must accept one another as lovers, adversaries and ultimately friends; learning to overlook the defiance of their actions and joining one another down an unthinkable path. A startlingly intimate debut from director Sérgio Machado, LOWER CITY bursts with a sensuality and energy emanating from the unflinching performances of the vibrant young cast.
Editorial Reviews:
Sara Brady, Premiere Two lifelong friends, Deco and Naldinho, fall for the same lady of ill repute (City of God's Alice Braga) when she hitches a ride on their cargo boat in this steamy drama from Sergio Machado (the 2001 doc At the Edge of the Earth).
The Bottom Line: An even sexier take on Y Tu Mama Tambien, this time in Portuguese.
A.O Scott, NY Times . . the woman in question is Karinna, a dancer and prostitute played by Alice Braga (''City of God''), one of the most forthrightly and powerfully sexual screen actresses in the world. Ms. Braga, niece of the Brazilian actress Sonia Braga, brushes aside any hint of glamour and gives a tough, candid performance.
The look of ''Lower City'' is impressively naturalistic. Toca Seabra's cinematography makes the sweat and grit of Salvador almost palpable, and the music, by Carlinhos Brown and Beto Villares, provides a sweet, lusty throb.
DVD Features: · Making of featurette · Deleted scenes · US theatrical trailer · Palm Previews · Weblinks
About this product: From one of the most trusted fitness brands of all time this new DVD features six great "of Steel" programs and includes over 100 minutes of fitness expertise. Led by acclaimed instructor Tamilee Webb you can excercise all the key parts of your body.System Requirements:Running Time 100 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR UPC: 085365139022
About this product: DVD: 05-51586 Billy’s BootCamp-Lower Body BootCamp From the maker of America’s hottest workout series, TAE BO®, Billy Blanks® does it AGAIN and he’s better than ever before! Billy’s BootCamp is a fun, powerful series that uses elements of tried and true workouts, along with signature Billy moves, to shed pounds and inches and reshape your whole body. Before you know it, Billy will have you in the best shape of your life, pushing you through with his dynamic energy and motivation. Whether you are a beginner or already one of the millions of true Billy Blanks followers, BootCamp is the best workout series for any level! Billy is a seven-time World Martial Arts Champion, and has turned TAE BO into a fitness revolution with millions of videos sold around the world. His BootCamp series is the result of years of experience to give people the most explosive, fun, ultimate total-body workout around! LOWER BODY BootCamp is all about the abs, thighs, hips and buttocks! Get rid of those saddlebags and that lower-body flab with Billy’s specialized isolation moves, and focus on where you need help the most. He also incorporates the Billy Bands™ into resistance-training intervals to target and trim down your inner thighs, resculpt your hips, and lift and firm your fanny. For extra focus on this area of your body, use this lower-body routine with your basic training BootCamp workout to get the maximum results in the minimum amount of time! Running Time: Approximately 45 Minutes Color /NTSC/ Mono
About this product: Fitness instructor Lisa Kay is your host for this exercise video, which demonstrates a routine combining aerobics and weight training for a more effective workout. The Firm: Lower Body Sculpt 1 presents a half-hour workout designed to tone legs, thighs, and buns; users can adjust the intensity level though the use of weights, and a step box can also be incorporated into the program.
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