Classical Stretch by ESSENTRICS: Season 11 Full Body Mobility

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Total run time: 690min. (4 discs) Episodes: 30 (23min. each)Components: All-Standing, All-Barre, Standing & Barre, Standing & Floor Level: All levelsPace: Slow Language: EnglishAvailable in closed captioningClassical Stretch - Full Body Mobility offers safe and gentle workouts that unlock and rebalance tight muscles, liberate joints and ensure long-term body health. This mobility series is aimed at keeping you feeling young, pain-free and fully mobile—no matter what your age. If you’re active and in shape or just beginning to exercise after a long sedentary period—these simple sequences of exercises will ensure youthful aging and provide a boost of energy, reduce fatigue, stiffness and relieve pain. Make Classical Stretch a part of your daily routine in order to rebalance, recondition and maintain full body mobility.Release date: 2016 Filmed at: Grand Palladium Resort & Spa (Riviera Maya, Mexico) Review: Unexpectedly good workouts- if sitting is the new smoking, then this is good RX. Just what I was looking for. - I am 47 years old and have run 6 marathons, but now when I try train for a race, I get some sort of injury, and I sit all day at work. I think my long distance days are behind me. I can't just head out the door and run like the wind anymore! Now I have feet that get stress fractures and bone spurs and hips that tighten so badly that it hurts to sit after a long run. I had heard how good stretching was for "old" ladies, so I decided to give this a try. I wanted something that didn't have an overt spiritual component (like tai chi or yoga) and I wanted something that wasn't grueling (I have arthritis (hallux rigidus) in at least one big toe and some other smaller health issues so the Les Mills classes that all the gyms do are too much for me). I even checked the local y and other gyms, and if they did have a stretching class, it was in the middle of the day, when I am at work. This DVD series was just what I was looking for. I am doing one episode (or sometimes just a half) each morning, and I really do feel better on the mornings when I do this. (sometimes packing kids lunches and things like getting out of the door in time gets in the way). I have lost 3 pounds in the month that I have been doing these (but honestly that could be because I have a cold and not the workouts), and I have gone on a few short runs right after these, and I feel better after these runs than I did when I wasn't doing this kind of stretching first. Most of the workouts get some type of feet exercises in which is good for my arthritic feet. I like that there are so many workouts, so it is not the same thing over and over. I am just half way through them, but some of them I have done twice in a row. This isn't the type of workout that will leave you soaked with sweat, but some of the moves are challenging and I feel like they are building strength in places like my arms, that have always been weaker. Sometimes my arms shake from the exertion! Nothing on these videos is embarrassing. So, if I leave it in the blue ray and it pops on when my kids and their friends are turning on the Wii, no need to race over to try to stop it lightning fast. I know that sounds weird, but I did have another workout video designed for ladies that was a whole lot more explicit in the language and directions! The narrative and images in this workout series are not in any way embarrassing or explicit. Miranda Esmonde-White has a very pleasant demeanor and is very encouraging. She explains why a stretch should be done a certain way, and while I am not a fitness expert, her explanations seem to make sense. She said not to do shoulder exercises with weights or you could damage the shoulder and that is exactly how my husband tore his rotator cuff, so she is right about that! The backdrop in the workouts varies, and while I didn't think that was a selling point when I ordered this, the upbeat music and tropical backdrop make the routines go by quickly. I am sold, and plan on doing these (or maybe another season later) for the foreseeable future. Review: Fantastic Results with Daily Use. Freedom from Pain! - I'm a 53 year old man who has lifted weights on-and-off for decades. In March 2017, I fell into flood waters near our home and almost drowned in the whirlpools. I cracked a rib and damaged all the joints on my left side as well as my back; I could barely walk. After finding out about Essentrics via Forever Painless on PBS, I purchased the Essentrics Pain Relief Workouts DVD set, which was all I could handle for the first couple of months; those exercises worked like a charm! I graduated to Classical Stretch Season 11 within 8 to 10 weeks (the earlier seasons were too vigorous for me at that point). I've now been doing Essentrics exercises from these two DVD sets faithfully every day for almost six months, and my back pain (which had bothered me since my early 30's) has largely disappeared, numbness in my left thigh from a messed up disc has receded noticeably, my hips and shoulders have loosened up, I can turn my head both ways after not being able to turn comfortably to the right for years, and I can dance again. These exercises don't feel like they ought to push you, but I still find myself sweating like crazy even though the exercises feel relatively easy. My core is much stronger than it has ever been before in my life! Recently, I found that I could climb hills without undue gasping or discomfort even though I hadn't been hiking since the accident. Because my rib is still healing, I've had to avoid the floor exercises and haven't been able to return to weight lifting yet, but even so my body is behaving more youthfully and all my muscles are kept toned. I usually do two episodes a day, which gives me about 45 minutes of exercise, but some days I only have time to do one episode, which still keeps me pain free. Miranda's explanations are golden; she really understands the body. This is the best exercise program I have ever tried.