Yoga

[andtckrtoo]

I just stared added yoga into my routine again - did it a long time ago. I started it because I wanted the stretching and the flexibility, but I was surprised to see that it helped me break through my plateau. I'm doing Rodney Yee's Yoga for Athletes and Bryan Kests Power Yoga (only did the beginner one so far), but has anyone else experienced this? I'm really pleasantly surprised!

 

[singinggoddess]

Christine,
It is funny that you mention this. I recently just got over having a pneumonia and I have to say I don't think I would have gotten so sick if I had taken better care of myself. I had been working out way too hard and not taking days off and definitley not listening to my body. So, I had to take a month off of any strenuous workouts and build my immune system back up. I have been doing Bryan Kests workouts and Barron Baptiste yoga for the past 3 weeks and nothing else and have lost 4-5 lbs and feel so much better and not so frantic all of the time trying to get crazy workouts in every day. So, I am over the pneumonia and I am definitley going to do yoga 2-3 times a week and will be adding in cardio and strength. I think that yoga is wonderful for the body and if you do the power yoga you will get a lot of strength benefits too. I think we all tend to think that very high intesity workouts everyday is the only way, but I really think that you have to be balanced and in my experience yoga always does that for me.

Susan

 

[DB1]

I just started adding yoga back into my routine yesterday. I really need help in the flexibility dept. and hope to add it to my weekly workouts at least 2X a week.

Susan, sorry to hear you had pneumonia. I've never had it, but I know people who have and it's not fun.

I agree with your statement regarding "high intensity workouts" being the only way to go. I feel I need to burn X calories or the workout isn't worth it. I have to get out of that mind set and realize yoga has been around for thousands of years for a reason. I think our modern lifestyle of go, go, go, has us brain washed into thinking anything less isn't good. I am going to give it a try for a month and it will be interesting to see if anything changes.

Rhonda

 

[andtckrtoo]

Susan -

I'm really sorry to hear about your pnuemonia. I didn't suffer that, but I was down in Louisianna after hurricane Katrina w/ the Red Cross and I came back, not as well as I would like. It took me a month to recover, and another month to get back to the intensity I could do before. I wish you a speedy recovery!

Now, I've done the beginner and intermediate sections of Bryan Kest's Power yoga. They are very intense workouts, but in a different way. I'm not used to twisting and holding lunges the way we do in those and I tell you that I get more sore in the hams and glutes from the yoga than I do from even GS Legs - amazing, eh?

I'm going to continue and make sure I add yoga (either Bryan Rodney Yee's yoga for athletes or the yoga class at my gym) at least 3 times a week - preferable 4. I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[dianet]

I was thinking of adding power yoga back into my rotation as well. I did a power yoga/Cathe rotation a couple years back, also adding in Bar Method workouts, and had great results. I think that Yoga really balances out your body and the stretching definitely helped my legs to look less "bulky" and better proportioned. However, after I while I was enjoying the yoga too much did it in place of Cathe workouts and totally lost my muscle tone. It it was hard for me to find an good balance, since I only have 70 mins at most per day to workout and I can't fit in everything. I may start off doing yoga on my "rest" day and the Bar Method exercises at night a couple times a week.

What will your yoga/Cathe rotation look like?

 

[Debra L]

I plan on doing yoga at least 4 times a week through the holidays. I have a tough time with the conspicuous consumption in the U.S. at this time of year, & the yoga helps me focus on what's really important.

I'm working back into power yoga after a 5 week bout with a virus. For awhile gentle yoga & light weights was about all I could do.

Body Wisdom's workouts have some great short sessions which make them easy to fit into almost any schedule. I have their "Yoga for Inflexible People" & "Power Yoga".

Debra

 

[ldy_solana]

hi debra,

i have there "yoga complete for everyone" and "yoga for athletes" they are really versatile dvds for sure. you can pick the length,purpose,and level of yoga workout you want. i use these quite often and usually start the day off with a yoga workout.

i shoot for at least 5 days a week when i get an hour for myself. usually in the morning but sometimes before bed. the other two days i go for pilates or a tougher yoga workout like bryan kest.


kassia


When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be
disappointed to discover they are not it -- Bernard Bailey

 

[andtckrtoo]

I've been following this routine for the last few weeks:

Monday: Cardio (1 hour AM - today was IMax 2 and abs from C&W, Gym routine of GS BSB
Tuesday: GS Legs - Yoga at the gym
Wednesday - GS C&T - Bryan Kest's Power Yoga
Thursday - Cardio (HCE # 2 w/out KM blasts) and Core Max #3 and yoga at gym
Friday - Bryan Kest's Power Yoga
Saturday - 5-8 mile hike w/ altitude gain and Rodney Yee's yoga for athletes (for a great stretch).

I use it as my second strength workout. I want to get a good weight workout, but I feel that with a good power yoga workout, I get a decent second weight workout.

 

[pressju]

Susan and Christine - had in my mind to reply to you. I too am incorporating a lot more yoga back into my routine since doing some damage to my back and left hamstring these last two months (and ignoring it til recently). May I make a recommendation here that you both attend a few classes at a studio with a very good teacher so you can get your form looked at. It is so helpful - I realized that my at home practice was not quite up to par once I went to a few classes and got some form adjustments I was definitely cheating some moves to "pretzel" my way into some poses.

I have been taking classes with the head of a yoga studio near me - oh she is so wonderful!! About 55 and doing handstands, all of 4' 11' and all power anbd grace. I would recommend someone with that much experience. Also before class tell him/her you are just getting back into the yoga practice so she/he knows to keep a watchful eye. Let's hope whoever you go to is as yummy to look at as Bryan Kest in his long hair days!!

Namaste ladies.

Julie