Scott Cole's Discover Tai Chi - AM & PM Workouts

This is the same routine as in the AM/PM Workout from 2009. I thought it would be different, so I purchased it. Not sorry I did, though, since I love this routine! I plan to keep the extra copy to give to friends to try to convince them to follow Scot Cole's Tai Chi DVD's. The PM workout cures any lower backache I have from sitting at the computer. It's excellent for improving balance and flexibility. It's a slow, gentle routine that anyone can do. I like that each routine is about 35-minutes. Short enough for when I don't have a lot of time, but long enough to work!I've been doing Tai Chi using Scott Cole's DVD's for almost two years now. When I first started, I was surprised that I couldn't sit cross legged, since I always could as a kid! I just couldn't bend that way. But after only four weeks of doing Tai Chi, I could sit on the floor cross legged. My flexibility and balance have improved. I also notice that I've lost inches in my waist.I definitely recommend getting this.

I have been doing martial arts for a few decades and began doing basic Tai Chi about 5-6 years ago as my aging body needed some exercise that was not quite so hard on my joints. I have bought and continue to use instructional DVD's by David Carradine and David Dorian-Ross. I bought this DVD to add some variety to my weekly routine. After using several different instructional DVD's for Tai Chi, I still like all of them and continue to use each lesson depending on what I feel I need on a given day. Scott Cole's instruction of AM/PM Tai Chi routines is pretty easy to follow. His style or form of Tai Chi seems like the least traditional to me of the 3 instructors that I use in my exercises. It is very free-flowing, not as rigid on particular styles or movements. I am glad to add his routines to my collection of Tai Chi instruction and plan to add some more.

Scott Cole's Discover Tai Chi AM & PM Workouts is the best I have found so far, and I have a box full of tai chi videos that I consider mostly useless. This one is not for the purist - it is a series of tai chi moves without adherence to a rigid "form." Just a really good and satisfying tai chi workout for old hands as well as beginners. . . and with no long explanations as you stand around and do nothing while the instructor listen to himself talk . . . and talk.Best of all, there is no right-left confusion. The producers realize that you are watching a mirror image, so they refer to left when you see left and right when you see right (even though to Scott, the sides are actually reversed). I heartily thank them for this, having watched many routines in which the instructor turns (more than once) and you don't know which side is which or which end is up.The production values are good, and simple - there are no fake waterfalls, hokie roar of ocean waves, or elaborate sets. There are simple studio shots and simple beach shots. The music is there but not distracting. There is no entourage of students, so we can spend our time watching the master, who is a pleasure to watch! Tai chi has great beauty, especially when performed by an expert such as Scott Cole!I have a feeling my box of previous tai chi workouts will go the way of amazon marketplace or the local free store.Thanks Scott and all of you who are responsible for this thoughtful presentation!!

Some people might say that this isn't classical Tai Chi. They're right, it's not.This is better. It's the perfect way to get stiff, overweight Americans off the sofa and moving in a way that's easy, fun and welcoming.That's Scott Cole's real genius. The way he presents his programs are just so smooth and inviting that you're getting into them before you even realize what you're doing.One big benefit of his teaching style is that you can do the whole thing in a very tiny space, which is perfect for today's cramped apartment dwellers who never have enough room for the classic Tai Chi forms.Another is his totally non-judgmental attitude. He goes out of his way to give people the freedom to adapt to their own body and not expect everyone to do everything exactly the way he does it. He encourages flexibility not conformity, movement not rigidity.His programs may seem deceptively simple, but after a while you start to realize that you're moving in ways you never thought possible, flexing parts of your body in ways you haven't done since high school....and maybe not even then. Best of all, the improvement is progressive. Not matter where you start from, you very quickly notice the difference in the way you feel and the way you move. You can keep growing and expanding without ever feeling like you've reached the limit of what you can achieve.I could go on and on, but you get the idea. Five years ago I shattered my right knee cap and never thought I could do any real exercise again. But I can do this!! And if I can do it with a knee that's still held together with titanium wire, well, that should say it all right there.If you want to feel better than you have in years, get Scott's programs. You will never regret it.

Best ever tai chi DVD for me.