It’s too bad I didn’t keep this DVD long enough to write a full review on it, since I think it provides a great example of a workout I really wanted to like but couldn’t. Billed as functional fitness, UNYBP uses a stability ball, a medicine ball, and light weights to challenge the core and to work supporting muscles in different planes of motion, all of which I enjoy and appreciate. Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out the purpose of the exercise sequencing, which I found terribly disjointed and choppy. Exercises that I liked (such as a front shoulder raise while lying prone on the ball) were spliced clumsily in between others requiring different equipment or using different muscles, for reasons I couldn’t discern. Even if each exercise had been chaptered separately, it would have been way too much work to be worthwhile for me to program my own workout sequencing all of the exercises more sensibly. The workout also surprised me by mixing in some cardio intervals rather than focusing just on strength exercises, a surprise which I didn’t welcome because my ankles and knees weren’t warm enough for the high impact. I think it would have been more effective for the workout to focus on achieving one goal at a time, instead of trying to do everything at once.

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