Keeping Fit in Your 50s - Flexibility

Keeping Fit in Your 50s - Strength Workout specifically designed to address the needs of the mature woman's changing body, focusing on strength training.Genre: Health/NutritionRating: NRRelease Date: 4-JAN-2005Media Type: DVD	Keeping Fit in Your 50s - Aerobics Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 01/18/2005	Total Stretch for Beginners with Tamilee Everyoneù from the absolute beginner to the most accomplished athleteùcan benefit from stretching on a regular basis. Whether preparing for a sporting event or just winding down from a stressful day, stretching can prevent injuries, improve posture and circulation and help you ...	Stretching for Seniors A "Breakthrough" Video For People Over 50 - Now you can stretch your way to greater strength, flexibility and vitality with this easy-to-follow video. Created by "Stretch Exercise" expert Ann Smith. Step-by-step, Ann guides you through a series of gentle stretching movements for ...	Yoga For Inflexible People Yoga isn't just for people who are already supple--it's a way to become more flexible. Yoga for Inflexible People presents modifications and props to make traditional poses accessible to people who could not otherwise perform them comfortably or correctly. You get more than 35...
AM/PM Stretch for Health Certified fitness instructor Madeleine Lewis guides you through targeted morning and evening stretching programs. AM Stretch is an invigorating way to start the day with emphasis on restorative flexibility. PM Stretch helps you to relax and to re-align your body. This deluxe DVD ...	Pilates Complete for Inflexible People This DVD is for anyone who considers themselves inflexible. Joseph Pilates developed his method not for people who were already flexible but rather to help inflexible and/or injured people become more flexible strong and healthy. Pilates Complete for Inflexible People™ is ...	Element: Ballet Conditioning Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 12/04/2007	Strong Body, Ageless Body with Erin O'Brien Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 12/31/2007 Run time: 45 minutes Rating: Nr	Perfect in Ten: Stretch - 10-minute workouts Studio: Stratostream Release Date: 04/10/2007 Run time: 45 minutes

Perfect after a fatigue-filled menopause
Since I am on the other side of a fatigue-filled menopause, I am now in horrible physical condition and find this DVD perfect for someone in my condition. Every single muscle in my body aches. I have tried all sorts of different yoga DVDs and find them too difficult (at this time) for me. I think it's a good place for me to start. I also have to say that I don't find them talking to me like I am stupid. I think they are talking to those who have not had much experience with yoga, pilates, and exercise in general, and, last buy not least, the elderly. The worst thing I can say about this is that that in order to miss all the talk, I have to FF to the right spot. I miss the old VHS tapes, where you could turn it off and start right at the place you want. If there is a way to do this with a DVD, I would love to know.

I'm so very disappointed!
This is absolutely the most annoying exercise video I have ever viewed. Too much talk! I just couldn't get pass the chatter. The narrator is condescending lecturing as if talking to 5 or 6 year old children. The constant babble is a turn off when one is trying to exercise. I kept watching, and hoping but by the time I reached segment 6 I was fed up! I hit mute! Without the chatter the video might be somewhat useful -- don't know. Chattr aside -- keeping fit in your 50s is a very very basic intro to body-sculpting. If you have never exercised it might be for you. If you want a good work-out video this video is not for you.

Keeping fit series is good for women in their 50s
I purchased the series and liked all three, particularly flexibility. I was glad to see inspiring women my age in the DVD and thought their approach was realistic and not too frenzied. The exercises were familiar but effective. On the other hand, the timing can be a bit off, so the counts during workouts aren't perfectly symmetrical. The explanations take quite a bit of time, but those can be skipped later to go straight to the workout sections. The DVD series repeats a lot of information, but that might be useful to those who buy the DVDs separately. Overall, I feel good after the workouts and feel these are age-appropriate.

A Model & A Jock Doing Yoga . . . .
These are not your average fiftysomethings. One is a model with an obvious facelift, the other is a cyclist who keeps opening her eyes very wide as if she's having shock treatments. Both are in phenomenal shape, and both talk as if they're speaking to retarded children. (I'm fifty-five, I am not stupid!) The video begins with a lot of "tips." Things most people know at fifteen and probably have taught by fifty. For example, we get a nice shot of what a calf is. (Body part, not farm animal.) We're told that if a stretch is too difficult, we should back off. Duh. (Again, I'm aging, not stupid.) The stretching is basic Iyengar Yoga. That would be fine if (1) it were very simple Yoga for those of us with arthritis and other problems and, (2) if detailed information about how to do each posture properly was given. It isn't. Just as the viewer has decided to be spoken down to and has gotten into the stretching (Yoga), the two women on the tape decide to give us a taste of Pilates, and then what they actually call Yoga, which is what we've been doing for an hour already. ??? Although the stretching and other work is all right, the women thankfully aren't twelve and bubbly, and the music is only repetitive enough to peel the enamel off one's teeth, I'm not happy with this video. I do a lot better with Rita Moreno's "Now You Can!" and the Living Arts Yoga series.