2003-12-26
Friday
Workout: Total Yoga
Author: chaos
Tried out the Total Yoga video today. It was fairly interesting… it’s at a much slower pace than the stuff that I usually do, and requires more flexibility for a number of the poses. The thing that I like best about the video is that for a number of the positions, it suggests variations for stronger or more flexible students, letting you customize things a bit more while still being in the context of the video. Even if I owned it, though, I’m not sure how often I’d do it since it’s such a slow pace, and it’s pretty long, a little over an hour total. Still, it was definitely nice to try something a little different, get a bit more of a taste for different things that can be done with and in the practice. The one thing that I really hope to take from it is the breathing… it’s very explicit about both how and when to breathe, which I think is pretty useful.
Anyway, given that it was a new workout, doing the workout required extending myself in ways I don’t necessarily normally go, and I was still somewhat tender from yesterday and previous workouts, I’m going to guess that I’ll probably be taking tomorrow off. Possibly Sunday as well, but I’ll have to wait and see on that… overall, I’d rather not, but it might be necessary. I’ll try to at least do some external abdominal work on Sunday, even if I don’t manage to get any yoga in.