Yoga and Meditation

Work out DVDs are just like work out videos. They consist of 20 minutes to over an hour-long worth of recorded exercises for you (and/or your friends) to follow along in the comfort of your own home. They can be very different from each other, and can come from very different bodybuilding companies (with very different ethics, morals, beliefs, philosophies, etc. on fitness and achieving that beach body).

You will find that there will be equally male instructors as well as female on-screen. They will have a wide array of personalities ranging from delightful and delicate, to rigid and intensely harsh. You will feel as though you are at a ballet studio for your pilates as the instructor compliments you every few minutes, or you will feel as though you are being drilled at a fitness boot-camp as that instructor yells for you to “push harder” for that last yoga pose.

If you are lucky and have gotten your hands on a decent work out DVD, you will feel either at ease, or pushed to your limits. The instructor on the screen will be in a staged area that will appear to be a dance studio, an industrial-like gym, or a beach on some island.

Usually, the instructor won’t be standing alone. There will most likely be a group of men and women (depending on who the work out DVD is geared towards) exercising right alongside the instructor. They will be your guide as you may possibly feel alone and unsure of how to do the fitness moves.

As these assistants of the instructor do their movements in different ways, they are really assisting you. In case you are going at a different pace than one person, you may feel more comfortable pushing yourself to a pace that another person in the background is doing. There will be varied intensities that you can see from one end of the stage to the other.

You will find that in some work out DVDs, no one is sweating whatsoever. They aren’t even glowing. In other work out programs, you will see those people drenched in sweat all over their clothes. Again, this will be a matter of preference for you, and it will be a matter of what the director and producer want you (as the exercising customer) to see.

The beauty of purchasing a work out DVD (or two, or three!) is that the return of investment is far greater than purchasing a gym membership. The more you use the DVD, the cheaper it will have cost you to use it! This is different than the cost of a gym, where you have put down a far larger payment and continue to make monthly payments afterwards.

The added benefit to having a collection of different work out DVDs is that you can change the exercise up whenever you want! You can use the ab work out DVD of one program with a cardio DVD of another. Or, you can make a complete hybrid of two fitness programs to take your body to the next level of results.

As Beth Prager comes closer to reaching beach body nirvana, she shines a light on some on work out DVDs