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Yoga Burns Fat: The 7-Week Plan to Stretch and Tone Your Body, Mind, and Spirit

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After only one day of this work out, I feel amazing. My legs feel long with a line of strong muscles all the way down. I can feel the results now, but I'm sure I will see the results in the future. (And my husband loved to watch!) I have only 3 complaints so far: 1. I needed someone to read the steps to me for each exercise because they tend to be rather involved. 2. 30 minutes was not enough time. I needed about 45 minutes to be able to complete all the repititions and another extra 15 minutes if I wanted to do the suggested meditation. 3. The exercises needed pictures for each of the various steps involved in the exercise rather than just one picture. Some of the moves, I had to hope was right. I'm going to have to draw stick figures in myself, I guess.

Will you be more flexible and stronger having done 7 weeks of this program? Yes, but a qualified yes.

The book claims you need only 30 minutes a day. The amount of time each activity takes is debatable. If you are brand new to yoga, you will spend a lot of time flipping between reading the instructions, and attempting the pose, and then stopping part way through the activity to double check the text again. You almost need a tape or video of someone reading the instructions to you. (An example single step is: "Bring your legs back to the center, bend your knees, roll onto your left side and sit up. Straighten your legs out to the side, in line with your hips, and place both palms flat on the floor in front of your hips.")

A good chunk of the book is breathing exercises and visualization exercises (Example: "Imagine that you are walking along a beach. You see a path in the sand dunes that leads to an old house...") Not everyone enjoys visualisation exercises, so think about whether or not this is what you want in a book.

Target Audience: People who want to become more flexible, and enjoy quieting their mind with breathing exercises and visualizations. This is not right book for you if your primary goal is to burn fat.

I agree with the first reviewer. This book does need more drawings. This books gives information I haven't seen anywhere else. I have the author's book Yoga builds bones and have found it quite useful. Many yoga books try to sell you things. These books don't. I do wish there was a video. I have followed this book for 4 weeks and I can truly tell a difference.

I think that this book as a wonderful goal; to use the traditions of hatha yoga to loose fat, gain muscle, and improve flexibility. As far as I can tell the author might have achieved all of those objectives. However, the book is unusable.
Success with yoga requires moving and holding positions fairly precisely. Doing the movements incorrectly not only reduces the effectiveness of the position, but it may cause the practitioner physical harm. The illustrations used in this book were all but useless. I could not figure how to assume the positions based on the illustrations and their accompanying description. Unless you really know the author's approach to yoga, I would suggest that you avoid this book.