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Workout for One: Digital Fitness Videos You Can Do at Home
Frustrated that you're unable to go to the gym, dojo, dance school or yoga studio? No worries. Try streaming these fitness videos to learn a new skill or get a basic refresher course that will get your body active and moving.
Exercise at home, in the backyard (if you're lucky enough to have one), or in a park. Minimal sports equipment is required, aside from an internet connection and streaming device, towel and floor mat, and your library card. Just make sure to take it easy to avoid injuries and practice physical and social distancing from other people to stay safe.
All fitness instructional film descriptions are provided by the respective publishers. Some films are for all audiences while others are for people 14 years-old and older. Please be mindful and "return" your digital materials when you are done so that other patrons may use them as soon as possible, too.
African Healing Dance
In Africa, dance is much more than physical movement—it is a direct way to celebrate life and create healing. African Healing Dance is the first home video course for learning the expressive movements and healing traditions unique to Africa’s dance heritage. Viewers join Wyoma, the respected lead dancer and director of the Damballa dance troupe, as she teaches the African way of moving the entire body with passion and joy. Here’s an instructional program that brings a real high-energy African dance class into any home.
Rodney Yee's Complete Yoga For Beginners (five episodes)
Internationally acclaimed yoga instructor Rodney Yee guides you through four beginner yoga practices, each with a different benefits. Learn correct form, and move through a variety of simple poses and sequences that will help increase flexibility, energize the body and calm the mind.
Easy Yoga
This interactive video presents the ancient practice of Yoga as a modern way of thinking and living that brings order and balance to busy lives. Our trained yoga expert will take you through a series of positions that can build your body’s strength and flexibility, while bringing you toward inner peace and harmony. Just relax and follow along!
Shiva Rea's Mama and Baby Yoga (four episodes)
Presents three yoga routines designed for the new mother to regain her pre-pregnancy shape while bonding with her newborn baby.
Easy Tai Chi
Helps you relax, develop flexibility, and achieve harmony of mind and body. Follow along as an expert, skilled in teaching and competition, shows you the basics of Tai Chi, one of the world’s most ancient and popular martial arts. Tai Chi emphasizes harmony of mind and body—it can help you develop flexibility, ease away tensions, and enhance both relaxation and concentration. Find out why Tai Chi has been practiced for so long, with this easy-to-use interactive guide.
Easy Karate
Helps increase strength, develop flexibility, and improve mental and physical discipline! Learn the technique, history, and philosophy of the ancient art of Karate with Easy Karate, an introductory course packed with instructive video that lets you study at your own pace. Watch godan (5fth degree) martial artist Brad Jones demonstrate fundamental forms and precise techniques for the beginning student. Learn about stances, target areas, kata and basic sparring.
5 Days Fit Pilates (five episodes)
An effective selection of five Pilates workouts that will strengthen and lengthen every muscle of your body, accessible to all fitness levels & featuring top-notch Pilates talent.
5 Days Fit Abs (five episodes)
Five workouts that target core muscles.
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