The Ultimate Body Rolling Workout: The Revolutionary Way to Tone, Lengthen, and Realign Your Body
by Stephanie Golden, Yamuna Zake
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Author: Stephanie Golden, Yamuna ZakeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-12-23
ISBN: 0767912306
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Book Review: Very Difficult Workout, Somewhat Painful, Some Benefits
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
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Summary of The Ultimate Body Rolling Workout: The Revolutionary Way to Tone, Lengthen, and Realign Your Body
Get rolling! Your body will ask for more.Created by veteran yoga teacher Yamuna Zake, body rolling is a revolutionary fitness technique that uses six- to ten-inch inflatable balls to strengthen, tone, and realign the body, while providing sensations that can surpass the bliss of a massage. Now, in the first book devoted to body rolling, Zake shares the routines that she has imparted to thousands of clients across the country, and shows you how to get on the ball--and get the body you?ve always wanted.
The next step for fans of yoga and Pilates, body rolling is the ultimate way to streamline your figure and promote physical wellbeing without the bulked-up results of conventional workout methods. Like yoga and Pilates, these easy-to-follow, fully illustrated routines will condition and lengthen your muscles, improve core strength, and enhance posture, flexibility, and balance. But unlike those practices, body rolling also realigns your spine and joints, relieving pain and muscle tension and providing a workout, a massage, and a chiropractic session all at once. The routines can be combined for a full body workout, or abbreviated for instant relief?to ease shoulder tightness after a long workday or to enhance bedtime relaxation. The result: You will be not only stronger and more fit with a long, lean shape?you?ll stand taller, you?ll move more easily, and best of all, you?ll feel terrific.
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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