I used to be super into Ali McGraw's Yoga Mind & Body back in the '90s when it came out. The last time I did it, it felt very blah and basic. I think I've just done so much yoga since then--both with better videos and studio classes--that I couldn't really recall what I thought was so special about it. It wasn't all that hard or anything, but the pace was just glacial, and it didn't seem to have a particular physical focus, difficulty level, or yoga style, other than being very visually pretty and having good music. I still have my VHS copy, but mostly out of nostalgia and not because it's a good yoga workout.
There've been a few videos I've donated or sold because I just felt blah about them. Mandy Ingbar's Yogalosophy used to seem edgy and cool, but like the above, there wasn't a lot of specificity to its style. I ditched a Jackie Warner workout because it was so very basic circuit quasi-HIIT that Jillian Michaels does a lot better and less boringly.
Others are things I used to regularly check out of libraries or rent via Netflix when they still had discs but I grew to find them dumb or not very effective. Mostly the entire "of steel" series, early versions of Tae-Bo, Donna Richardson stuff, Denise Austin stuff, things that in retrospect were just honestly too easy or unfocused.
Oh, and I used to have a Cathy low-impact HIIT that at first I liked but I found I got annoyed with its segment using Dixie cups as markers. It seemed fussy. I eventually donated it.
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