I have a love/hate relationship with Yoga. I “hate” yoga, and I “love” subbing a different workout for it! LOL!
I tried YogaX when I started P90X Classic for the first time and quickly decided that I was going to do something else instead. I understood that it worked the core, balance, and flexibility, but I just couldn’t get into it. My heart rate never got high, I didn’t sweat much, and I sure didn’t have to start breathing hard. The moves were difficult and challenging, so in that respect it was “hard”, but I didn’t feel like I was getting a good workout. It seemed more like glorified stretching than anything else. Besides, how does an hour of downward dog do anything for me??
Well, I set out to prove that I could get the very best results EVER with P90X despite skipping Yoga. And I may have done it! I got tired of hearing people on the message boards swear that Yoga is the key to everything. Blah Blah Blah! I was going to prove them wrong!
Well, I didn’t do Yoga for about 6 months, instead using Core Synergistics and my P90X / Insanity hybrids. I don’t regret it at all. I think my results speak for themselves.
BUT …. during my Round 3, after going back and forth with some of y’all about yoga, I decided to put it back into my recovery week. And so I’ve been doing it (not every week as part of my normal training block, but twice on recovery weeks).
Well, do you think I’ve had an epiphany that Yoga is the key to it all? Heck no! I still hate it! I still think it feels like glorified stretching. But I’m gonna do it by golly!
And as I prepare for Round 4 (which starts in 10 days!), I am actually going to put yoga into the starting lineup! So all you yoga lovers can get off my back! But it won’t be Yoga X because 90 minutes is just too much to bear! I will be using Fountain of Youth Yoga from the Tony Horton 1-on-1 series (which BB must know is more popular because they now send it out as a free gift to anyone who buys P90X through their BB coach!).
Fountain of Youth yoga is similar to the first half of Yoga X but with a little more variety. In other words, you don’t spend all 48 minutes of FOY doing the exact same move over and over and over and over like you do on Yoga X (can you tell I still hate Yoga! LOL!)
So will I have candles and incense going? NO! Will I find my inner peace? NO (at least not doing yoga!). But I WILL do it anyways.
Look for my upcoming Round 4 hybrid, featuring yoga! I’ve had Round 1 (which was unnamed), Round 2 (“My Hybrid Workout“), Round 3 (“The Perfect Storm“), and now Round 4, which I will lovingly call “C-Squared: Constant Confusion“
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