RE: Pleeeease don't give up!!
More encouragement to keep going....if you like that feeling afterwards, but not during, try to find a way to focus on the afterwards feeling while you're struggling. Or back off just enough that the struggle is less intense.
If you're a weight junkie, try to remember your early lifting days and how long it took to be able to lift what you can today. Give yourself time to be a beginner.
I would also second and third the recommendations for Power Yoga for Happiness and Strength and Spirit, especially the latter because the instruction is so good and pace slow. My muscle bound, fast twitch, former offensive lineman hubby loves that tape. He looks nothing like the participants, but he feels as good as they do.
I don't mean to proselytize, but your revealing that you get the buzz afterward suggests that you're doing everything right. In a way, yoga is a kind of internal weightlifting struggle within your body. You're opening and changing connections bound by the toughest connective tissue we have.
The way Tony teaches yoga has made it accessible and likeable to so many people who wouldn't have done it otherwise. The main reason I bought into the P90X program was its extensive use of yoga and the holistic attitude that indicated. Tony kind of says, "I'm no yogi, but this is a great thing to do to enhance and improve my overall fitness. So, kids, here's how I do it." That's much easier to get into than most routines done by yoga teachers. That doesn't mean it's watered down. You also might like a guy named Steve Ross who does a show on Oprah's cable channel.
You have to keep trying because your posts about it are so fun to read. Bryan does need someone like you in his vids!
--Ann
More encouragement to keep going....if you like that feeling afterwards, but not during, try to find a way to focus on the afterwards feeling while you're struggling. Or back off just enough that the struggle is less intense.
If you're a weight junkie, try to remember your early lifting days and how long it took to be able to lift what you can today. Give yourself time to be a beginner.
I would also second and third the recommendations for Power Yoga for Happiness and Strength and Spirit, especially the latter because the instruction is so good and pace slow. My muscle bound, fast twitch, former offensive lineman hubby loves that tape. He looks nothing like the participants, but he feels as good as they do.
I don't mean to proselytize, but your revealing that you get the buzz afterward suggests that you're doing everything right. In a way, yoga is a kind of internal weightlifting struggle within your body. You're opening and changing connections bound by the toughest connective tissue we have.
The way Tony teaches yoga has made it accessible and likeable to so many people who wouldn't have done it otherwise. The main reason I bought into the P90X program was its extensive use of yoga and the holistic attitude that indicated. Tony kind of says, "I'm no yogi, but this is a great thing to do to enhance and improve my overall fitness. So, kids, here's how I do it." That's much easier to get into than most routines done by yoga teachers. That doesn't mean it's watered down. You also might like a guy named Steve Ross who does a show on Oprah's cable channel.
You have to keep trying because your posts about it are so fun to read. Bryan does need someone like you in his vids!
--Ann
. You are just so smart when it comes to getting to the root of the problem and I think you nailed it!! I'm going to keep trying it every so often and see where this leads - I promise. NOW...I think you've failed a bit in your advice to Rocky....or maybe he just isn't listening to you. Squirrels can be a bit self absorbed when emotionally entangled and just tune you out altogether. Tell him to "get over it". There are other rodents in the forest, other nuts on the tree, other berry's on the branch, etc....