Yoga   Yoga: For Health and Much More

ThinQ Fitness, the digital TV content company, and The Department of Health’s Change4Life movement, recently announced the offer of a free month of online fitness videos to promote family health.

Available online, the videos are aimed at celebrating health for men, women and children to help impact the health related issues of obesity and heart disease linked with inactivity and poor diet.

Access to the family, age and gender focused workouts include a high BMI programme, together with strategies suggested by the recent government campaign, including inexpensive ways for families to exercise together and an ‘Eat Slim Lunchbox’ for parents.

With limited household budgets many families are unable to achieve improved health through local fitness services. Change 4 Life partnered with ThinQ Fitness earlier this year to address this by offering a professional exercise site, with inexpensive subscription fees, to families with limited cash or access to gym facilities.

The content aims to get families together for regular exercise and users can comment on how they are getting on by using the comments section at the bottom of the web page. There is also a section in the forum where children and families can get their Change4Life questions answered.

Change 4 Life are offering the free content as part of ThinQ Fitness channel, which offers online interactive fitness content and ‘one stop’ gym resources using the latest online video technology. Users can use their PCs or laptops or connect them to their TVs, to interact with workout presenters on sessions including fat loss, step, yoga, pilates, pre/post natal, and gym, holistic or dance.

For more information, visit thinqfitness.com.

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YogaVibes.com is yoga for today’s digital world. The newly launched site offers viewers the ancient practice of yoga in the most modern of ways–on demand on their computers.

For less than the cost of taking a class at most yoga studios, YogaVibes.com users can stream a high-definition yoga video for 14 days.

Yoga is also a good fitness choice in today’s uncertain times, Ratté said, because the practice offers both physical and mental benefits.

With few exceptions, YogaVibes.com classes are filmed live on location. Unlike yoga DVDs, YogaVibes.com videos feature real students at an actual yoga studio. Viewers can sample a variety of yoga styles, such as Vinyasa, Ashtanga and Anusara, and broaden their exposure to teachers around the world.

Along with its for-sale classes, YogaVibes.com offers free instructional short videos taught by its partnering teachers. Viewers can learn the intricacies of a specific yoga pose or deepen their understanding of related topics, such as Ayurvedic medicine or yoga for golfers.

YogaVibes.com also highlights the connection between yoga and addictions recovery. On its Recovery Vibe page, YogaVibes.com offers online yoga classes tailored to recovering addicts, as well as video testimonials and other resources.

For more information, visit yogavibes.com.

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