Day 18 – Yoga X

  The more I do Yoga X, the more I love it. It really makes me work hard, and of course, you have constant improvements to look forward to, and every time you manage to do something you could not do before, it makes you feel great. Not to mention the workout that your getting from it, plus balance control and stretching.

Again I did all my chaturangas nice and slow, makes you workout harder, tried to do all the warrior posses as low as possible. Also managed to do most of plow. I use to be able to do it a long time ago, so the first time I did this DVD, I went for it and soon found out that I could not get in to the position, I felt my stomach come down and I could not even get my arms to hold my back. The second time, I almost did it but I tried to hard that the upper part of my abs cramped on me and I had to let it go. Today I was just able to roll back lift and bingo, my legs were up, my arms were supporting me and I did not feel my stomach was crashing down. I was not able to come down low enough to put my knees around my head but managed to touch the floor a bit with my toes, but since that was my first time I did not want to force to go further, I am happy I was able to get that far.

I am still struggling with many other moves that have a torso twist but I am starting to twist further so that’s good. Also crane, this time, since I workout in the bedroom I turned to face the bed and had my head lean against the side of the mattress to keep me from falling. I lifted my feet off the ground and oh wow, this is tough, the weight on my arms was insane, my knees hurt against my arms, so I moved my knees sideways a bit, but the weight on my arms was still to heavy so I only lasted like 5sec and tried it a second time and lasted another 3 or 4sec, after that I stayed in the position with both toes on the floor placing as much weight as possible on my arms, in order to try and get use to it.

Needless to say I am slowly getting better at some moves, and I am loving it. I feel great after this workout, if anyone is switching this workout to do cardio, you should try it, it is fantastic, yes it is tough but you will feel so good after, the more you do it, the more in tune you get with your breathing and moves and the better you feel.

Tomorrow I have Legs & Back + Ab Ripper X, this will be the last weight workout for the week before I hit the recovery week and then change my routines.

Thank you for your time and motivational support:

Mike