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Welcome to our 30-day Challenge! Do one episode of Classical Stretch everyday from the comfort of your own home and keep us posted on your progress, experience and success!
We will be working out with Season 8 at the head office and hope you use your DVDs at home and connect with us on facebook. Make sure you visit this site to check out our latest updates and motivating videos! It will be like we are all workout buddies! Take it one week at a time, we are in this together!
Get Ready Bootcamp Starts on Monday! |
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| Week 1 - Week 2 |
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DAY 1
801 - Stretch All 600 Muscles |
This is an amazing full body strengthening workout. It gets into the arms, the hips, and the entire core to improve posture. Prepare to work to your maximum
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DAY 2
802- Increase Your Energy |
This workout will increase the strength & range of motion of your rib cage and spine. This will give an expanded space to your lungs and the capacity to pull in more oxygen into the muscles. The plies will then burn the calories with the help of oxygen and give you lots of strength and energy
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DAY 3
803-Stress Relieving Workout |
This is a deep flexibility workout aimed at pulling the tension out of your entire body. You will notice that you use the strength of your muscles to pull the muscles to their maximum. After this workout you should feel energized from the oxygen that has been added to your muscles. You may also experience lots of pain relief at the same time.
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DAY 4
804 -Firm & Strengthen Your Butt |
This is very anti-aging and strengthening of the FULL body. When working try to do as full and large movements as possible. I find students don't understand the need to move the full range of motion in every movement. On the spinal rotations make sure you rotate to your maximum. This will help tone slenderize the torso as much as possible and keep you feeling strong and youthful
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- How to get the most out of Episode 805 - |
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DAY 5
805- Balance & Strength |
This workout will stimulate your brains cells and make you have to work on coordination and rapid movements. This is really good for both the brain and body. We tend to let ourselves move slowly as we get older. Try to master this workout as it will stimulate what is known and fast twitch muscles. We want to keep all our muscles healthy and young so don't get discouraged with this workout. Make yourself conquer it. After a few times you will have it mastered..
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DAY 6
806 - Lose A Pant Size |
This workout will strengthen your arms and open the upper back to improve your posture. Get ready to work on the posture. The windmills are some of the most powerful exercises to improve the posture, combine them with the are exercises and this workout will really help the posture.
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DAY 7
807 - Elongating Your Muscles |
Back and spine strengthening. It works on the transverse muscles of the lower 'stomach' helping to pull in that rounded look on the belly. Make sure you find a telephone book to sit on if you have trouble sitting with the legs in front
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WEEK 2 - DAY 8
808 - Slenderize the Waist & Flatten Abs |
Try to have a mirror handy to be able to self correct. You can get one for $9.99 that hides under the sofa! You will get more out of the workouts if you do them correctly. All the rotating of the spine and full flexion of the spine is important to achieve the maximum slenderizing results.
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WEEK 2 - DAY 9
809 - Improve Your Posture & Increase Your Energy |
This is a powerful workout that will suck-in the muscles all around the torso leaving you with a firmer looking body and beautiful posture. It is deceptively difficult and effective
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WEEK 2 - DAY 10
810 - Strengthen Hips & Core |
When we strengthen the core we need to maintain full mobility and range of motion, otherwise we will be stiff and look like robots. We need to be able to use our bodies comfortably. In this workout we are combining deep flexibility and strengthening techniques. This will leave the full body strong and fully flexible. The plies deepen the strength and flexibility of the hips, quads and feet.
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WEEK 2 - DAY 11
811 - Unlock The Spine & Improve Posture |
Try to focus on deep breathing throughout this workout. The added breathing will help feed the muscles with oxygen making you feel more energetic and powerful
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- Get the most out of Episode 12 - |
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WEEK 2 - DAY 12
812 - Improve Your Balance |
Try holding all your muscles as tight as possible while you are doing these exercises. You will double the benefits if balance, slenderizing and posture. Most people don't realize that in order to slenderize the torso all the front, side and back muscles need to be worked equally. That is why we do so many rotational movements of the body.
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WEEK 2 - DAY 13
813 - Strengthen Feet & Fingers |
You will notice that I am trying to use as deep a plié as possible and go as deeply into every movement as possible. Look at yourself in a mirror and try to go a little further with ever movement. Don't just settle for your first movement but challenge yourself by going a little further with every movement.
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WEEK 2 - DAY 14
814 - Unlock Your Hips |
In order to have full flexibility and be comfortable in your body you need each joint to be free. We do full-body flexibility exercises and then follow them with kicks where you have to isolate the legs from the hips. This will free the hips and relieve back pain, strengthen the abs and make your legs thinner. If you don't isolate the legs from the hips you will stress the back muscle which you don't want to do so really work on the isolating of the legs from the hips.
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WEEK 3 - DAY 15
815 - Increase Your Energy |
Full body strength and oxygen are two of the most important components in increasing your energy. We strengthen the muscles while we are stretching them by going to the end of every stretch and loading and moving the body in these massive movements. All the time remember to deep breath.
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WEEK 3 - DAY 16
816 - Tone Your Entire Body |
As you are doing all the exercises keep the stomach as pulled in and tight as possible and use a lot of resistance in all your movements. Fight the exercises and load up the movements with lots of invisible resistance. This will make the toned time double up in fast results.
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WEEK 3 - DAY 17
817 - Strengthen & Shape Your Legs |
When you are working on your legs make sure that you pull the legs away from the hips. Try to make the knees completely straight and feet either fully pointed or fully flexed. That way you will achieve maximum toning and slenderizing benefits
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WEEK 3 - DAY 18
818 - Burn Calories & Lose Weight |
Plies, plies and more plies! These are the safest fastest and longest lasting calorie burning exercises.
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WEEK 3 - DAY 19
819 - Tone The Abs & Strengthen Legs |
Pull the arms and check that your elbows are actually straight and correctly positioned beside the shoulders and beside the ears when they are above your head. Same with the legs, When they are bent have them as bent as possible and when they are straight make sure that the knees are pulled as straight as possible!
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WEEK 3 - DAY 20
820 - Full Body Posture Workout |
Most people don't realize that poor posture is caused by an imbalance in the full body. Therefore you cannot fix poor posture by only focusing on one area of your body such as your back or your shoulders. In Classical Stretch we do full body exercises which allows the full chain of muscles to liberate the spine and help to improve posture, So don't ignore any part of your body!
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WEEK 3 - DAY 21
821 - Strength and Flexibility to Your Core |
If your spine cannot rotate or bend side to side then this will effect your ability to strengthen the stomach or abdominal muscles. Strength and flexibility go hand in hand. Without flexibility strong muscles lock the joints leading to pain and atrophy. These exercises will give you equal doses of flexibility and strength.
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WEEK 4 - DAY 22
822 - Deep leg stretches to relieve back pain |
Deep leg stretches for the hamstrings, gluts, hips. These exercises also make the legs thinner as well as relieving back pain. The iliopsoas stretch is really important to relieve back pain, as the psoas muscle is small and attached to spine and femur (thigh bone).
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WEEK 4 - DAY 23
823 - Stretch & Strengthen The Lower Body |
Go to the maximum end of every movement, this is a little calorie burning workout so put as much energy into it as you can. These exercises will open the upper body, pull on the pectorals that make your shoulders rounded and strengthen the full spine. It will stretch deep into the lower spine and hips so make sure that you pull those muscles as much as you can.
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WEEK 4 - DAY 24
824 - Spine & Abs |
The spine has roughly 24 or 33 (depending on how you count them) vertebrae which are also know as joints. We need to have maximum flexibility of each joint/vertebrae in order to prevent back or neck pain and to feel comfortable in our body. A stiff spine has a ripple effect on our entire body leading to back, hip, knee, and foot pain.
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WEEK 4 - DAY 25
825 - Feet & Ankles |
This will give you a deep torso slenderizing workout. Make sure you go to the end of every stretch, with each move reach a little further then the move before. The feet, toe, and ankle exercises are really important for increasing your energy and to make you feel youthful. When feet are weak and tight you slow down and your entire general life energy is affected. Never take a wall or chair in these free standing exercises.
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WEEK 4 - DAY 26
826 - Weight Loss & Toning |
Weight loss exercises are about calorie burning. The calories ore burned in our muscles so when you do these exercises make sure that work as hard as possible. The side to side lunges are really strengthening and so they are calorie burning. Go as deeply as you can in each of those side lunges. The barre leg kicks pull as far as you can from the hip to slenderize your hips and thighs
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WEEK 4 - DAY 27
827 - Stretch & Strengthen Your Hips |
This workout uses the barre to strengthen and tone the muscles. The barre can be used for stretching and strengthening. Having to stand on one leg while doing some difficult leg work is extremely strengthening for the supporting leg. Range of motion is so important in balancing the body and preventing pain.
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WEEK 4 - DAY 28
828 - Strengthen Your Bones |
We need to strengthen our bones by stressing them. In this workout we use the weight of the body to stress the bones of the thighs, the feet, the hips and the spine.
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WEEK 3 - DAY 29
829 - Improve Posture & Flatten Abs |
This workout has a wonderful exercise called the Caribbean-spine which breaks the tension in the muscles and ligaments of the spine. Then we do some killer sit-ups to strengthen the abdominals. The combination will improve your posture and help flatten the abs.
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WEEK 4 - DAY 30
830 - Strength & Flexibility of Hips |
This is a killer workout. It is a wonderful full body strengthening workout that will challenge every muscle group in your body. This is a workout that you could do every day and add it onto one of the more flexibility focused workouts if you want to do 40 minutes at day instead of just one of the 23 minute episodes.
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