Day 22: Yoga X

13Apr08

I figured since Yoga X was shaping up to be one of the workouts I’d be using most during the next 68 days and also the one I had the lest experience with, I needed to do some research one some of the poses and get a history of hatha yoga just so I could get a better understanding of the poses, what they were HOW to do them and WHY I was doing them. I went to the Yoga Journal website, printed out some instructions on certain poses and even found that the half moon pose has my name in it which I thought was pretty cool.

So armed with this knowledge, I went into Yoga this afternoon (after doing IMAX 2 for cardio earlier in the day) focused on what I wanted to do. It worked. Yoga X got easier! I’m still having trouble with chaturanga, my shoulders just aren’t strong enough to keep me from needing to put my knees on the floor, but everything else really flowed well. I was sweating up a storm, it really felt excellent while I was doing it and after I was done.

Just for reference, I found this advanced Bryan Kest Yoga video on On Demand and pretty much every pose he does in this advanced video is done in Yoga X. It almost looks like Tony took this vid, changed the order around and TADA! Yoga X. That makes me feel pretty good really. Not that Tony was copying Bryan Kest, but because initially I struggled with Yoga X and there are still poses I can’t do very well, but Yoga X has given me a crash course in advanced yoga.

Just for a little variety I might use this Bryan Kest video and use it when I feel I need a break from Tony. The DVR won’t let me record it, but if I remember it and it’s still on the On Demand I’ll give it a go one day in place of Yoga X.

Eats good today. I’m a little under on calories today but since I was over by quite a bit yesterday this will kind of even it out.  I really didn’t have much of an appetite today anyway.

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Tags: Bryan Kest, IMAX 2, P90X, yoga X