Since then, not only do I practice yoga 4-5 days a week (including weekends), but I’ve fallen in love with the yoga anatomy specifically, I am fascinated with how yoga benefits the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, lymphatic and other systems of the body.
Hot yoga ROCKS!!! I love to sweat, and hot yoga definitely does the trick.
yoga in a room heated to between 95 – 100 degrees) near my place of employment in the city. That first class, power-based vinyasa yoga, was eye-opening on many levels: It was the first workout I had ever had where I felt exhausted and exhilarated at the same time! I was hooked! Soon thereafter, I joined a yoga studio that offers “hot yoga” (i.e. One of the first things I realized when I started is that, despite bench pressing, dead-lifting and squatting tons of weight over the years, I had virtually zero core strength! From there, I started taking a yoga class at my local fitness center. And I thought yoga was “easy.” Needless to say, it kicked my butt – and gave me a phenomenal workout (As the tagline says, “It Ain’t Ya Mama’s Yoga!”) I did DDP Yoga three times a week in the mornings before work. I ordered his DVDs and begin my yoga journey at home. Having been a lifelong fan of pro wrestling, I read about why DDP, though resistant as most guys are at first, embraced yoga and how he devised his own brand of yoga, DDP Yoga. I decided to give yoga a try after checking out YouTube videos of retired professional wrestler and now yogi Diamond Dallas Page. “It Ain’t Ya Mama’s Yoga.” I realized that as I got older I needed to take a fresh new look at my overall health and fitness. How did I go from being a 5’10”, 285-lb borderline pre-diabetic, to 5’11″ ( Yes, I grew an inch!), and, as of this writing, 259 lbs, looking a feeling better than I ever have in my life? In a nutshell, I embraced yoga and plant-based eating. Plus, although I happily accepted a new job after being unemployed for almost 3 years, weathering the economic recession left me physically, emotionally and psychologically drained.
Although I had lifted weights for much of my adult life, I lacked any discernible flexibility. My cholesterol was way too high, my triglycerides were dangerously high, and to say that I was out of shape would be an understatement. At 39 years old, I was 5’10″ and weighed in at 285 lbs.
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