Anyone watch the Oxygen network's INHALE

[HeChangedMyName]

I love that show. I use to do it regularly and my body was pretty tight if I must say so myself. It is so refreshing. Here is a sample (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Tgo8JAQMg) of a workout for those who don't know.

[Sashaa08]

The only time that I break a sweat from doing Yoga...I also like the music that he uses.

[Nonie]

I loved that show. I am never home at that time to do it...but when I was not working, that was my morning ritual.

[Cichelle]

I LOVE that show. It comes on at 5 am here.

[vevster]

I love that show. I use to do it regularly and my body was pretty tight if I must say so myself. It is so refreshing. Here is a sample (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Tgo8JAQMg) of a workout for those who don't know.
I have GOT TO get back to that! It is a GREAT workout!

[HeChangedMyName]

I wish it was sold in DVD form. Steve Ross is intense and doesn't shirk on making you stretch. I use to keep in such great shape with it. Man, I need to upgrade my cable so I can DVR it. lol. It comes on at 6 am and that is just toooooo early for me.

[DDTexlaxed]

Can anyone recommend a toga beginner's tape? If I tried that, it wouldn't be pretty.:lachen:

[Nonie]

I wish it was sold in DVD form. Steve Ross is intense and doesn't shirk on making you stretch. I use to keep in such great shape with it. Man, I need to upgrade my cable so I can DVR it. lol. It comes on at 6 am and that is just toooooo early for me.

You are not lying SuperNova. :lol: I read a review by a lady that doesn't like his smug personality, his lack of mercy, etc and calls him the Yoga bully.... :lachen: Apparently not everyone thinks of him affectionately as I do. :lol:

Oxygen's yoga bully.

By Virginia Heffernan
Posted Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2003, at 11:54 AM ET
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Inhale: A white-hot pain in the butt

In 1976, I joined a children's class called Creative Movement, taught by a free-spirit potter-woman in western Vermont. About 20 of us marched around and then did yoga. We reached up to touch the sky, then lay on our backs and pretended we were floating downstream on a raft.

My memories of yoga are fond—but, unfortunately, yoga is not about reaching and floating anymore. For the past few years, the creative movers have been calling for handstands and crow poses, to say nothing of the painful parivrtta trikonasana and the fearsome kukkutasana. As honest exercisers must admit to themselves, the experience of a yoga class these days can seem like open war, as those of us with intractably Western values can't help but look around to determine who is the most centered, relaxed, and noncompetitive. The New York yoga classes I attend make me long for the spirit of '76. So for the past week, I have been following Steve Ross' Inhale (Oxygen, mornings at 6 ET)—and struggling, in the privacy of my own home, to actually get relaxed.


I picked the wrong class. Ross, reportedly a legend in Los Angeles, is bald, good-looking, and groovy, even though, inexplicably, he's never seen outside of genie pants. His Web site implies that he has special access to bliss; in class, he has the swagger of a gigolo. He chuckles to himself at the room's incompetence, drawling, "Don't beat yourself up about it if you can't do it well. I'll be happy to beat you up." Then, when he's not mocking the weak and the inflexible, he's issuing instructions in irritating accents like "Come on down, mon," or "Come all ze way down."



Ross' students work out to light rock, reggae, Motown, and obvious, overplayed singles from other genres. The students—in their 20s and 30s, widely pierced, dressed in earth tones that roughly match—dutifully heed him, though he offers next to no explanation of the poses. Some of the participants, including one whom Ross called Andrew, seem especially talented. And they are unflappable. Push the butt back until you feel a screaming, white-hot sensation that you might know as pain. Frequently this week, when Ross said that kind of thing, I stopped, sat back on my heels in the I-hate-you asana, and watched in awe as the good students felt the white pain.


The first half of the workout is a long series of sun salutations, most of which rely on the shift from the familiar poses that Ross calls "up dog" to "down dog." These are feasible, but Ross also requires some one-leg and one-arm balancing that I find difficult. He then proceeds through a variety of more esoteric poses—it's hatha yoga he's doing, the kind about "flow"—often concentrating on "opening the pelvis."


Other people might understandably be bothered by Oxygen's commercial breaks, which do little to further the hatha mood, but I was grateful to get away from Ross. I would hang upside-down and tell myself, "He's cool, he's himself, he knows about bliss, he's fine." But then Ross would reappear, and I'd swear he seemed angrier than before. "For something more advanced, you can do what Andrew's doing," he said once, quickly sneering, "Though I wouldn't call him 'advanced.' "



That did it. Andrew, I thought, flee from this phonily supportive world! You're advanced, you're relaxed, you're great—it's Ross and the yoga bullies who are out of line. In fact, yoga's gone far enough; I think it's high time we all pick up a form of exercise with more forgiving coaches, like tennis or football.


Source: http://www.slate.com/id/2076431/

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[HeChangedMyName]

Can anyone recommend a toga beginner's tape? If I tried that, it wouldn't be pretty.:lachen:

I used one by giam years ago. But seriously, as intense as the workout is on Inhale, it is actually not that hard because you can stretch to whatever your comfort level is and as you progress, next thing you know your stretches just get deeper and deeper over time. I shocked myself being able to do some of those things.

You are not lying SuperNova. :lol: I read a review by a lady that doesn't like his smug personality, his lack of mercy, etc and calls him the Yoga bully.... :lachen: Apparently not everyone thinks of him affectionately as I do. :lol:



That is what I like about him. If you are punking out on a position, he will let ya know. That's the kind of personal trainer I need when my pockets grow up. lol. Someone to tell me I am weak and need to step up my game and such. Show me out by doing a moving with the swiftness, just to prove that it can be done. I love me some Steve Ross too gurlll.