Category: Yoga

I really like yoga a lot. Makes me feel good. Increases my strength, flexibility, and balance. What’s not to like?

So far, though, my only real exposure to yoga has been with Tony Horton’s P90X and One-On-One. That’s all good, but Tony is a bodybuilder and fitness expert, not a yoga guru. So I thought I’d branch out.

I’m still doing Insanity, but the workouts are shorter than what I’m used to, so I thought I’d add in some yoga from … someone else.

Hmmmmm…. Whose workout should I choose?

After scouring my favorite online retailer, I finally settled on Ultimate Power Yoga from Rodney Yee. It looked like a decent set of routines and was well-reviewed at Amazon. Plus, it seemed like a great value for the money.

This morning I woke up early, so that gave me a chance to do some yoga first thing. I did the Power Foundation routine, which was a series of moves focusing on legs and core. Wow, very nice!

It was cool to wake up and go into a short yoga workout to start the day. The routine was not too strenuous, but definitely got the blood flowing and I know I worked those abs over a bit.

I hope to do yoga like this — first thing in the morning — more often, maybe two or three days a week. There are five routines on the DVD, none is longer than 20 minutes, so there’s really no valid reason why I can’t make that happen. Plenty of invalid reasons, though, so we’ll see what happens.

Meanwhile, Insanity looms large for later today!

In keeping with the theme of my last post, I am faced today with a time crunch. Too much to do, too little time to do it.

Now, I do always take time out from work to get up from my computer and walk around for a bit, usually reading a book with the Kindle app on my phone as I walk around the place. I also, whenever I make or receive a phone call, walk around as I’m talking. This keeps the blood circulating.

Of course, I like to get a workout in, as well.

Sometimes that just doesn’t happen. Maybe there are too many fires to put out. Maybe there is a firm deadline that I have to meet. Maybe I just don’t feel very strong that day.

I ran into this problem last Friday. It was a combination of things, but I just didn’t have the time I needed to do the workout I wanted, so, you know what? I did Tony Horton’s One-On-One “Patience – Hummingbird Yoga”. It’s only a half-hour or so, and, wow is it a great workout. Not a lot of movement, but definitely some strength-building and sweat creation.

Have less time than that? How about an abs workout. Make it intense, like Ab Ripper X from Tony Horton’s P90X, but still only take 15 to 20 minutes. If you work it hard enough, you feel as if you did a full workout, and your core can always use it.

Really short on time? Do something. There’s always time to do something, and doing something is always better than doing nothing. Your mind and body will love you for it.