The Ultimate Body Rolling Workout: The Revolutionary Way to Tone, Lengthen, and Realign Your Body (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

You'll get "leaner, longer, and stronger," promises Yamuna Zake. "It's a workout, a massage, and a chiropractic session all in one." Body Rolling uses a 6- to 10-inch inflatable ball (purchased separately), which you slowly roll under different parts of your body from a range of positions, elongating the muscles, relieving tightness, and improving alignment. The principle is "creating space" in the body, reducing compression. You also strengthen your core muscles as you hold the positions. Zake and her able co-writer Stephanie Golden explain the theory behind the practice and how it benefits different populations, such as fitness buffs, rare exercisers, and people in physical and emotional pain. The book gives easy-to-follow instructions for specific Body Rolling exercises for the back, neck, legs, thighs, arms, shoulders, hips, abs, buttocks, and feet, with clear, helpful photographs. Steps are explained clearly, including goals, tips, cautions, and visualizations. (The only problem is that the book does not open flat easily.) Most routines are done lying on the floor; some are done in a chair. Zake, whose earlier Body Logic system grew out of her yoga teaching practice, created Body Rolling and has trained 600 practitioners. --Joan Price

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?Body rolling both energizes and relaxes the body? it?s a great solution for people who have trouble working out.??USA Today

?It?s like your own inexpensive deep-tissue massage!?--Shape

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Broadway (December 23, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0767912306
• ISBN-13: 978-0767912303
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #65,087 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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57 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful body work, February 16, 2005

By	K. M Merrill "justine" (Forest Grove, OR, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought a red ball over a year ago, and have been playing with it for pain control.I could do some basic roll outs that I learned from the video. I have a long history of needing chiro, massage, etc... I once was extremelly active, but have lost much to injury.
Two weeks ago I purchesed the book and have been doing slow, focused work with the ball. I am seeing amazing results, the book is better than the vidoes were.
By doing more thigh muscles work I am standing straight and have been in minimal back pain for the past two weeks.
Body rolling is work!Do not fool yourself that it does not require attention. It helps to be warm,take a hot bath first.
I am also using YIN YOGA to help with my issues.I limit myself to every other night to avoid injury, and can't wait for my session tonight!
Between those books two my pain is down, and stamania is up, I am less crippled! Give it a good try.
I bless my ball everyday and marvel at my gains.


*****dec 2006 update, still going strong with controllabe pain, have done a year of swimming work, amd able to walk two miles now, will be hiking by summer. Body rolling combines with simple yoga has made a huge difference in my life.,, even my sister the yoga teacher uses it now to help her stay aligned and straight. ****

54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Difficult Workout, Somewhat Painful, Some Benefits, May 5, 2006

By	S. Burton (Orem, UT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased the Yellow Ball kit and a couple of the DVDs as well as the Foot Savers kit and this book.

The book is full of claims that Body Rolling will be the next fitness revolution. I started to believe that this was really going to be something great, so I bought a vinyl ball at WalMart and tried the workouts. They were OK, but I thought I might get more benefit from the yellow ball she sells. I did. If you think you'd like to do this workout, I suggest you buy Yamuna's equipment.

However, be aware that the workouts are very difficult. You are working a few inches off the ground and it's awkward trying to accomodate your limbs. You have to keep readjusting your position. It takes a lot of room too. You start out in the middle of your workout space and end up all the way across the room. This disrupts the flow of the workout since you have to keep readjusting your locale, your clothes, the position of your arms and legs.

The back workout is great, but it does end up pulling your hair as you try to relax the weight of your head at an angle on the ball. She doesn't say anything about this difficulty in the book and I would have liked to know how to cope with it. As it is, I just don't relax the weight of my head as suggested at the end of the back workout.

The abdominal workout is excruciatingly painful. You've got a lot of soft organs in that area of the body and it's really tough to relax your full weight down onto the ball. I became ill after trying to do it all correctly the first time, so I suggest you take it easy.

Do follow her safety tips as you don't want to break your tailbone, floating ribs, or xyphoid process. The other instructions are very detailed, but you can get the hang of it. I took my book to Staples and had them spiral bind it for me so I could use it when I work out. (That costs less than $5.)

All in all it is beneficial, but because of its drawbacks I don't use it all that often. I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, but do not consider myself a chronic pain sufferer. (Fatigue is my main feature.) It may help with chronic pain, but for the average person, I don't think this system is as beneficial as it claims to be.

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Take care of yourself, February 2, 2004

By	Keesha Standley (Orangevale, CA United States) - See all my reviews

For all of us who are dreaming of a massage every day this is the next best thing. Body Rolling has helped me roll out all the little aches and pains and as an added benefit my muscles are more toned and I have more energy. Best of all I can still do it after a long and tiring day, all I need to do is lay down on the floor and roll.
The book gives clear instructions and is well illustrated.