Introduction to Oxycise! Basic Breath and Techniques Dvd!

I love this exercise program. I've been doing it for several years. I decided to buy this package to use as a loaner to friends who would like to try it out before purchasing.

I had loaned my tapes to someone & never got them back so I. Was glad to find them at such a great price. I love this exercise!!

I am fairly new to Oxycise -- I had been working with only the book for about two weeks. I decided to get a couple of DVDs so that I could pop them in first thing in the morning and let them guide me through a quick workout. When I got this one, the introductory one, I was astonished to realize I had been doing the breathing/pulling in technique incorrectly. I was doing pretty good with the book and getting some interesting results, but doing it the correct way after viewing the DVD is an eye-opener. When you do the technique correctly, it's tougher and more effective. It's also a lot to think about. I've semi-started over and am relearning the positions with the correct technique, but quickly getting up to speed. I recommend to everyone that if you have been working only with the book, get this DVD! You may find as I did that you need some fine-tuning.

I like that Jill Johnson clearly demonstrates proper breathing techniques, something that we all could practice. It's like a tutorial on breathing that should be mastered before going on to the other Oxycise workouts. This is also a good stand alone video for breathing fully and improving your overall health.

I really love the stretches in the Oxycise videos they are wonderful. I've done Pilates before and am very experienced in working out. People who see me comment they can tell I work out. I don't know if I have a thyroid problem because they do say if you do, you won't loose weight with these exercises. I have checked my thyroid and blood results proved normal. Sometimes when there are thyroid problems you do show up as normal even though later on you will have a thyroid problem, and my mom has hypothyroid. If you want the dvd for the stretches it is wonderful, I highly recommend it for the stretches alone. In the 2 weeks I did the breathing exercises with stretches my waist increased 1.5 inches and in everything else went up 1 inch. I wasn't feasting on food. I was shocked, I think it's just the breathing technique does not work for me. I'm doing the breathing properly. I was hoping to have a different outcome. 15 years ago I ordered Body Flex with Greer Childers and the same thing happened to me, I gained inches. I only lose with traditional exercises. But for the stretches alone it is wonderful.

I haven't really gotten into the video which is why I gave it 4 stars, so when I do, will maybe change what I put here as a review