Product Review: Gliding Discs by Mindy Mylrea

I have a wonderful product to share with all of you- Its going to change the way you look at your next workout! Gliding Discs, designed by Mindy Mylrea are a great little tool to add to your fitness collection. Whether you have a complete in home gym or just a few rusty dumbbells lying around the house, this piece of equipment is a must have! These small discs have a number of uses, and can be used to enhance exercises you already know, or add a variety of new movements to your fitness routines! Whether its cardio or strength training your doing, you can add these discs in and suddenly your workout is a little more exciting, and a little more effective, too!

With the gliding discs the exercises you have been doing forever have a new twist to them! Lunges, Squats, Push Ups, Back Extensions . . slip these little suckers under your hands or feet and you have now added resistance, increased range of motion, and more excitement in your workout routine!

To use these discs for lower body exercises, you place the balls of your feet on the discs as you see Mindy doing here in the picture. Your back heel stays on the floor as your breaking mechanism. ((WARNING: do not put your whole foot on the disc and attempt to do any lower body moves this way, such as squats or lunges! You will find yourself slipping out of control and possibly pulling or tearing muscles or ligaments! KEEP YOUR HEALS ON THE GROUND!) You can then do lunges by sliding the front foot forward and then really stimulating your hamstrings by having to slide it back in! Great for front, back or side lunges! For upper body exercises, you place your hands on the discs, and you can now do a variety of movements such as push ups, sliding back extensions, or swimming movements! Mindy has made many gliding DVDs for upper body, lower body, cardio, full body strength training, and more.

At the ECA Fitness Convention I attended this weekend I had the oppertunity to take several workshops with Mindy and learned countless exercises that you can do with these small, easy to use, easy to carry and best of all, INEXPENSIVE little discs. Her classes were wonderful, full of energy, and great compound moves that worked my whole body and really had me feeling it the next day! (and the day after that, too!)

To learn more about Mindy Mylrea, visit her site at http://www.fitflixpro.com/mindy.php. If your interested in purchasing her DVDs or the gliding discs I suggest looking in your local library’s fitness DVD section or trying a site such as Amazon.com for a good deal. You can buy them in two styles: one made for hardwood floors and one made for carpeted floors or grass. *NOTE – these discs don’t slide very easily on rubberized flooring found in most gyms, so they are best used at home or outside! If your a fitness professional yourself and you ever have the opportunity to take one of Mindy Mylrea’s workshops, I strongly recommend doing so!!