If someone says Warrior or Downward Dog one more time, I'll cry...

Yoga X

Yoga X wasn't at ALL what I expected. Not even close.

I didn't get home until about 10:30 and was worried I might miss my first P90x workout 4 days into the program. Thinking that Yoga X was a fringe-type exercise, I was half considering blogging about it the next morning and saying how "relaxing and rejuvenating" it was, etc, and not actually DOING it. Not only would that have been a lousy blog post, but all 5 of my readers would then know I skipped it because I'm sure all 5 of them are way less ignorant about Yoga than I was before I pushed play...

I consider myself to be a pretty flexible guy, considering I play as a hockey goalie in winter (No, not field hockey) and I figured that this exercise would basically be a few stretch moves held for ultra-long periods of time and some "Ohms". I had no idea that 95% of my clothes would be off before I was halfway done and that I'd leave a sweaty wet spot on my bedroom floor after I was finished. Heck, I was so ignorant that I almost went straight to my Aunt and Uncle's place from the office without a change of clothes, thinking that I could do Yoga while babysitting my little cousin Roman in my business-casual attire. Not only would I have most likely split my only pair of slacks over $100.00 from seam to seam, but I would've been able to change all Roman's hyper-colour Hot-wheels into whatever their "heat sensitive" colour was with a drop of my sweat. (No Yoga got done while there anyway...Lego, Batman and hyper-colour Hotwheels really DID take up most of the evening).

Overall, it was a very new and refreshing experience for me and I'm looking forward to trying it again. A few things that are a bit of a bother are the length of the video (Nearly an hour and a half) and some of the ab moves they throw in at the end. To me, they just served to further aggravate the whipping I gave to my abs the day before with A-Rx, so I couldn't really do them justice. I found that the recovery period between the two wasn't QUITE long enough for me.



In closing:

-I think I sweated nearly as much during Yoga X as I did while doing Plyometrics and am finding that most of my "workout clothes" are too bulky and restrictive for most of these exercises. I think it's a fine time to hit Lululemon up for some pants and a mat...

-I need some Hyper-Colour Hotwheels

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