ExTension: The 20-Minute-A-Day Yoga-Based Program to Relax, Release, and Rejuvenate the Average Stressed-Out Over-35-Year-Old Bod

By Sam Dworkis

Book Overview

The gentle yet rigorous discipline of yoga has been used for thousands of years to condition the body and relax the mind. In adapting this ancient system to the Western body and lifestyle, Sam Dworkis has created ExTension, an easy-to-follow sequence of exercises that will enhance every facet of your physical and emotional fitness without injury. Practiced slowly, the ExTension system will relax you; practiced aerobically, it will burn fat. in only twenty minutes a day, using no equipment and little space, you can:
-- Reduce stress and relieve tension
-- Enhance your energy level and concentration
-- Flatten your belly and firm your arms and thighs
-- Increase your strength and endurance
-- Improve your flexibility and improve your posture

With over 200 photographs and step-by-step instructions, ExTension makes yoga, the most perfect exercise, easy, no matter what kind of shape you're in.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067186680X
• ISBN13: 9780671866808
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Poseidon Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

I read this book after delving into "home yoga" for about 3 months. As is probably common, I was doing many of the poses only semi-correctly. There is a lot of reading to be done here, but there is incredible detail to help anyone elicit the poses correctly. Dworkis also divides each pose for beginner, moderate, and advanced. After a particularly tough day of running and 5 sets of tennis, I followed the poses and felt refreshed, relaxed, and loose afterwards. The workout is also really only 20 minutes (after learning the poses) and fun to complete as well as challenging when striving for a more advanced level.

As an exercise physiologist certified fitness instructor...

As an exercise physiologist and certified group fitness instructor/personal trainer I highly recommend this book. I have been hesitant to try yoga because of the contraindicated moves (called poses), however this book makes the necessary modifications so that the program is safe, yet still effective and fun. I have looked at many yoga books, and even more videos and classes and this is my favorite. I actually recorded (audio) myself reading some of the descriptions of the poses so that I could do the entire sequence with someone to "cue" me with the appropriate instructions!