We kicked off the 8 week Yoga Challenge at The Uptowner this morning with 6 men looking to get stronger, more flexible, and injury resistent. The idea here is to see what happens if we commit to doing power yoga once per week for 2 months. What kind of changes are we going to see? Time will tell. So with that in mind, we started with your basic sit and reach so that we could get a crude baseline measurement of our current flexibility. Mine was not good. Feel free to post yours in the comments so that you can look back at the progress.
The Thang
- Wide Leg Hamstring Stretch
- Twisting Torso Stretch
- Split Leg Hamstring Stretch
- Standing Side Stretch
- Sun Salutations (x3)
- Runner’s Stretch
- Crescent Pose
- Warrior 1
- Warrior 2
- Reverse Warrior
- Triangle Pose
- Twisting Triangle Pose
- Chair Pose
- Prayer Twist
- Namaste
Moleskin
- The PAX knew YHC was serious when I showed up in my slippahs.
- My biggest fear was assuaged as HVAC let me know he was all for the Yoga Challenge. I hadn’t communicated it with him and was worried he would not be excited about it. He views it as good preparation for the Classic, so I am now even more all in.
- Kimchi started the next cycle in his new “rest on the 70th day,” training plan. Good to have him back. Yesterday just wasn’t the same.
- At the encouragment of Bogè, I tried a couple of different voices for the Q. It was decided that YHC should use the calm, soothing yoga Q voice instead of the normal, bootcamp style Q voice – it was better for our flow.
- YHC has misplaced his travel speaker; otherwise, we could have vinyased to the beat. If I can’t find it for next week, I challenge Bogè to start learning some Enya.
- I got really cold afterwards. I googled and apparently that can be a thing once you reach a state of transcendentalism; although, chills are usually the result of moving to an unheated cabin in the New England woods.
- I hope JV gets the above joke. If not he should thoreau his Yale diploma in the trash.
Sit and reach: About 3 inches from my ankles. My goal is the toes.