Stacey Nemour's Stretching for the Least Flexible People on the Planet

You'd think that for a product that costs this much (and for a product that has such great reviews) that you'd be getting something special here. Let me tell you that is not the case.I've written several reviews on Amazon through the years, and I rarely have to say this: I question the validity of some of these raving reviews that were boosted up to the first page. The top 3 reviews have ONLY reviewed this item, all except one who rated only one other product, and they posted that very short ONE LINE review on the SAME exact day. (For such lengthy reviewers, this seems quite uncharacteristic!)Notice I am actually marked as someone who purchased this product here on Amazon.Stacy's advice is solid, but this is not worth 30 dollars. The video resembles a YouTube video: she's in her home office, seemingly using a home camera. (Although note that the audio and video quality is not bad.) All of her stuff (yes, you see her items all about as if it her storage space) is a bit distracting. There seems to have been zero preparation, as she woke up one Tuesday morning and said "Hey, let's just do a video right now!" The whole thing was just....odd.Now all that may seem superficial, so I'll get to real important stuff, the stretching workout. It's not so much a full session as a "Here are some moves you can do" as if you should just do them all on your own at a later time. She sometimes only shows you a stretch on one side of the body, and none of it seems timed well. She lingers on some positions while she flies through others. I wanted something I could simply follow along to for complete stretching session, as I already knew many of these basic moves. I only watched it once.I have nothing against Stacey. She seems like a knowledgeable nice lady, but I feel like I was ripped off here.

While I have always been physical, playing sports and hiking, generally being active, my flexibility has always been very poor, from the time I was a teenager. This has led to some injuries that otherwise might be avoided and to healing times that are longer than desired. To remedy this situation, I studied yoga for quite a long time in Brookline, Massachusetts, with a recognized instructor. It didn't really help too much. This video is different. On the one hand, it is not a guided session, taking you through a specific stretching workout. It isn't really possible to use it that way, unless you keep hitting pause on the remote. It isn't paced or intended for that use.The DVD instructs correct form and procedure for a person with limited flexibility to begin addressing the issue. It takes into account the fact that many poses in the repertoire of many yoga teachers will simply be inaccessible to the students being specifically addressed here. I have never seen any teaching organized so perfectly to assure that a person will be able to gain some flexibility without injury. My usual problem is that I injure my lower back (too much rounding) when trying to stretch tight hamstrings. I've done it many times, and I didn't know another way. So, my stretching always made things worse and never better. In this case, the procedure is structured intelligently. There is no meaningful risk of injury anywhere in the routine. It is wonderfully accessible, even to those of us challenged in flexibility. It gives me visible progress. In one week, I have done a great deal to help an upper body injury just by stretching the surrounding musculature correctly. Of the flexibility experiments I've done (classes, DVD), this is the only one that has shown any real chance of success. I love it.

If you're going to help people who are extremely inflexible, it would be a good idea to have stretches demonstrated by a person who is _not_ incredibly flexible.If I want to see someone really flexible doing stretches that I can't do, there are lots of other videos that will show me that. I don't even have to buy one. I can just go to YouTube.What I wanted to see was Stacey helping people like me, people who can't even sit up straight against a wall because we're so tight. I wanted to learn how to _modify_ the kinds of stretches that she does in this video, so that I can work up to the point where I can start doing the 'normal' versions.What I got instead was Stacey herself doing things like, oh, splits against a wall. Impressive, but not very helpful.But what she lacks in teaching ability, she makes up for in marketing. I mean, she got me to shell out $25 for a video that she shot using two cameras in her living room, possibly in not much more time than the running time of the video. I probably covered her production costs with my purchase. If you're thinking of ordering this, you can buy my copy for cheap. Viewed only once...Anyway, the title, to be less misleading, should be something like 'Stretching for people who are already pretty flexible, featuring pretty typical stretches demonstrated by a perky blonde'. But who's going to buy that, right?

The title is misleading. The video quality is just downright poor. It will show her head and shoulders only while she is doing stretches over her head. The video looks like is was shot in her apartment in a space she can barely move in with cable wires hanging out of the wall in the background. When she is doing stretches it doesn't always show all of her body which makes it completely unhelpful for the viewer. I cannot get past the poor quality of the video to even take her seriously. I cannot believe I wasted money on this. I cannot believe she would actually sell this and feel good about herself and her name. This video should be reported.