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DelBoy
24-01-2005, 19:03
After starting it today, like I said in my grip journal, i have decided it is not for middle aged women - it is for cool people!!!
Fred
24-01-2005, 19:52
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we wont be talking again
PikeKing
24-01-2005, 21:20
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we wont be talking again

puff

yoga is excellent
DelBoy
25-01-2005, 09:38
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we wont be talking again

great! my plans worked! <buff>
veganlifter
25-01-2005, 10:26
i have to say my prejudices were demolished when i started yoga about a year ago. I thought is just a bunch of hippies meditating, but it was bloody hard work! Also, the stretches and the feeling afterwards were fantastic!

I think it makes an exellent addition to heavy weight training.

There was quite a few decent size guys doing yoga in the class i attended to, not to mention quite a few proper fit women - including my wife, lol!

not doing any yoga at the moment, should get my finger out and start again - i even get classes for free via my job! No excuse...
GoldenArrow
25-01-2005, 10:33
not doing any yoga at the moment, should get my finger out and start again - i even get classes for free via my job! No excuse...

What job's than then? I thought you were a teacher or something?
veganlifter
25-01-2005, 12:44
nah, i don't teach, but close: i work in the support staff at university. Uni has all kinds of perks for the staff, not too bad at all.
GoldenArrow
25-01-2005, 12:45
My memory isn't totally shot then!
Angel Delight
25-01-2005, 13:00
Yoga never was just for middle-aged woman!!!!! Yoga is for all ages, shapes and sizes!

I have practiced yoga with several different instructors. The second instructor was a man in his twenties and he had an amazing physique. He was strong and as muscular as a weight lifter, but his posture and flexibility was far better. Unfortunately he was Australian and went back to live in Oz, or I would still be doing it with him.

I would suggest that everyone did the Sun Salutation daily. It would only take 5 or 10 mins.
Knighty
25-01-2005, 14:43
This stuff is bloody excellent and the only people who seem to slate it are the people who realise they would get shown up by people they deem inferior to themselves , and are too narrow minded to try it
Fred
25-01-2005, 14:52
if that was aimed at me knighty i was joking

no doubt i would be terrible at it and it's not something i would enjoy either
Knighty
25-01-2005, 15:11
it wasn't aimed at anybody in particular, and if you did it at your own pace in your own time I would bet money that when you become more flexible and see the carryover it brings to the weight training, you would never look back!

I think everybody serious about weight training should look into Pilates or yoga as a supplementary activity (or anything that focuses on stretching and core stability)