Has anyone done the Iso Towel workout?

[bfit]

Has anyone done this workout? If so, do you think it's best for toning or for stretching or something else? I did it for the first time today. I didn't dislike it, but I found myself wondering what the purpose of it is or what "kind" of workout it's meant to be.

[adawn]

There's a few comments in this thread: http://forum.videofitness.com/showth...40#post2782140

[Judith L]

This workout is for toning.

Besides what I wrote in the thread that was just referenced, I'll say that since then, delving a bit into the subject of the current research on fascia (the web of connective tissue enveloping muscles, nerves, organs and bones, etc.), I have an even greater appreciaton of isometric workouts, "dynamic strength training", "resistance stretching" (Bob Cooley, Dara Torres), and Miranda's "Eccentrics" or even of Pilates with its counter-extensions -- all of which involve creating tension (by opposing lines of force -- contracting what you are stretching/pushing and vv.) not only in whatever muscle is being strengthened or stretched, but also in the enveloping fascia, toning it. And this tension in the fascia radiates, thanks to its pervasiveness, to the surrounding muscles, nerves, organs, bone, etc., and beyond, thereby augmenting the benefits of these exercises. So I think isometric exercise has been undervalued - though not by martial artists.

[Judith L]

duplicated