Yoga

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#1

I have to say, after hitting it hard for a couple of months of crossfit, yoga really opens things up and makes me feel great - both physically and mentally. i’m curious how many of you meatheads mix in yoga every once in a while.

@rawraw - maybe you can explain why yoga carries such a great psychic benefit. am i tapping in to my inner eternal well spring or some such nonsense???

#2

I hate yoga.

#3

I do it to stay flexible. Though I feel way out of place next to all the cacausion cardio bunnies.

#4

I don’t do yoga, but I imagine that regularly hanging around in a room where fit women in tights do stretches in close proximity can be beneficial to one’s mental state.

#5

I’ve only every gone with a significant other, but I do think people (especially xfit people) tend to neglect mobility. I’ve enjoyed yoga in the past, but due to time constraints I find it easier and more effective to just try and do 10 minutes or so of mobility a day. For example, I have some issues with my left shoulder so I always stretch that out, and I"m always tight in my hamstrings/lower back so I stretch those all the time.

#6

Yoga originated from kamasutra and will make u a better lover.

#7

yoga is ghay go play some soccer

#8

Best exercise ever, imo.

#9

Sarcasm I hope? As a lifelong soccer player, I don’t think the sport of “foot fairies” is a solution. Yoga will humble you if you’ve never tried it.

#10

I used to suffer from a stiff back, Yoga really helped me there.

#11

I used to do hot yoga and found it very relaxing and good for joints and flexibility. Also, it seemed to be that there were a number of women in my class that were wearing the infamous, “defective” black luon Lululemon pants. Not that I was complaining, of course…

#12

I’ve only done some as part of the P90X workouts. Yoga had me sweating more than anything else in that program.

#13

Yoga. Come for the lululemons. Stay for the benefits.

#14

Couldn’t have said it better myself. I think most of us who have tried it went initially because of the scenery but realized it actually has some merit. I dont believe it should be practiced as a stand alone routine unless you are older or recoverying from an injury.

Above the mma gym i train at is a yoga studio and sometimes after practice a bunch of the fighters will attend a class to increase their flexiblity, and of course to show off our wounds to the women.

#15

Am I the only one who is afraid that the cardio bunny in defective yoga pants bending over in front of me will let loose a nauseous cloud of gas?

My inner perv overthinks things and ruins it.

#16

Love yoga especially inversion poses.

#17

Have you tried the pose where you lie down flat on your back. Someone puts a chair over your head. And you lift up you legs and place them above your head and onto the chair. Like folding in half in a way. That was the best one I tried.

#18

I do that without the chair.

#19

I only tried yoga once. I was wearing the “defective” lululemon pants. They asked me to leave and never return.

#20

I kind of liked the support of the chair - helped stretch the spine better I thought