Product Details

• Actors: Bryan Kest
• Directors: Andrea Ambandos
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2002
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006F7JP
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #188,914 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Your abdominal region is your body’s central support system. This video includes a series of short, focused routines with poses specially designed to target the abs, to strengthen your body’s central support system and aid in the strengthening of your lower back. The first routine includes a warm-up, 6 minutes of power abs and a cool down. The second features a longer and more challenging ab workout. This video is from the latest (2002) series from Bryan Kest, after his exceptionally popular Power Yoga series: Energize, Tone and Sweat. Check out others in the series like Weight Loss and Intensive Body Sculpting, both of these in videotape or DVD format.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ab Power Kest Style, May 5, 2004

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CPTScott - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bryan Kest - Power Yoga 6 Minute Power Abs [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I'm a big fan of Bryan Kest. He has a way of creating programs that are challenging physically without losing the essence of yoga.

He always emphasizes breathing, focus and respecting one's limitations. He also stresses the idea of using your yoga practice to work on maintaining equanimity during your practice. The idea being that if you can practice having equanimity in the face of these physical challenges that it can translate into your real life as you deal with the day to day challenges of being a human being.

In terms of the physical part of the practice, this 6 minute Abs program is a really great way to be able to target your abdominals in a way that utilizes your whole body. It uses an interesting variety of poses which definitely move your abs through various ranges of motion.

This program is actually made up of two separate routines which are about 15 minutes each, with probably about 6 minutes of it being strictly focused on the abdominals. Of course most Yoga poses utilize your whole body by being very synergistic so your abs are actually almost always engaged.

Each of the two routines start with one Sun Salutation A and one B, then moves into a Series that is works the abdominals more specifically. One example of a yoga pose that he turns into an excellent abdominal pose is balancing table with one arm extended to one side while your opposite leg extends out to the other side.

Both routines have some vinyasa interspersed between the abdominal poses and end's with a supine twist and relaxation.

Either of these routines are excellent by themselves but can also be combined with another short routine. For example, you may follow or precede it with one of the Yoga Zone tapes (that have 2-20 minute routines per tape), something like Stress Relief Yoga by Suzanne Deason or any of the Power Yoga for Beginners programs by Rodney Yee or anything else you like.

I would have to agree with another reviewer who said that the title of the video might accidentally make people think that this program might be mistaken as literally a 6 minute workout and might hesitate to purchase it. That is a shame because this program is definitely much more than the title indicates.

As a person who has been doing yoga every day for about 8 years, has a substantial yoga video/dvd library and studies with an excellent teacher, I feel pretty comfortable recommending this program to anyone who is looking to have an excellent power yoga program with emphasis on the abdominals.

Namaste

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Core of Power and Health, September 5, 2003

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gorillagorillagorilla "gorillagorillagorilla" (Durham, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bryan Kest - Power Yoga 6 Minute Power Abs [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a very short tape, made up of two body-core centered workouts, one of which is a little harder than the other. Unlike some abs tapes, this tape does not so much isolate your abs as work them hard as part of your body core. You will really develop abdominal power and flexibility, as well as the Yoga glow that comes from deep breathing and a calm mind. You may not "feel the burn" the same way you would from crunches, but your abs and back will definitely thank you for these great strengthening and body-integrating movements. A good complement to the other Power tapes, Intensive Body Sculpting and the Weight Loss tape.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Right to the spot, October 11, 2002

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Power Yogini (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bryan Kest - Power Yoga 6 Minute Power Abs [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I liked this video for targeting right where it says, the abs. Moreover, it doesn't sacrifice any of the yoga, at least the way Bryan teaches, because I found myself still focusing on my breath with every movement. I like using this video on those days when I want to focus on my abs.