Wed- A nice surprise - Yoga X

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Hi Everyone,

Well, inspired me to do P90X's Yoga X this

morning. And, it was a really nice suprise. I

hesitated in doing this one for so long because of its

length (90 minutes) and b/c I thought it would be too

hard for me since I haven't been consistent with yoga.

Well, believe it or not, the 90 minutes went by

pretty quickly and most of it was very do-able for me.

I'd rate it at the level of Eoin Finn's yoga

practices - there are some challenging postures -

crane, wheel, shoulderstand, warrior 3, half moon,

etc. but they are all modifiable (duh, I should have

remembered that! ) and workable within your own

limitations.

I'd say the first half of the workout is the strenuous

part - lots of vinyasas - the second half features the

balancing postures, the ab work (pretty decent stuff),

twists, inverstions (I was able to do a not-so-pretty

shoulderstand - so I'm improving in that one!), and

postures focusing on flexibility.

If the 90 minutes seems intimidating, remember you can

split the workout or use the " skip " feature to ff

through some of it. A decent practice may be 30 min

of vinyasa and then focus on the flexibility/twisting

postures to unwind.

Tony is subdued in this one - as pointed out he

still has a few stray comments here and there and at

times he does get into " trainer " mode and starts

barking orders (but he even says it may be too much

for a yoga workout!). He does poke fun at himself

during savasana when he says " believe it or not, I'm

not going to talk for one minute! " And, I think he

only uses the phrase " bring it " once - at the end when

he thanks us for " bringing it " .

Overall though, this was a good practice. it is

definately on the more physical/athletic side than the

spiritual side. I'd say if you can do Kest's

(whose yoga practices I think are more difficult than

this one), Eoin's or Baron's yoga practices you can do

this one.

As an added bonus to my practice today, my hamstrings

have never felt looser! I so need to do yoga more

often. I am having trouble adding it on the evenings,

I may just have to dedicate one day of my workout week

to doing it - I definately need it. (I also did

T-Tapp's Primary Back Stretch twice this morning to

unkink and warm up)

Gee, I'm gonna miss Tony after this week. I think I'm

going to, over the course of the year purchase P90

Masters, my own copy of P90X and P90X+. This may be

some sort of Cathe blasphemy, but I'm thinking of

trading/selling some Cathes for Tony - I like his

approach and I think his workout " systems " make sense

- in other words, " hard for a purpose " not " hard for

the sake of hard "

Take care,

Donna

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