Day 48

Week 6, Day 3 X3 Yoga done. I really needed this after yesterday's workout. I did Triometrics which as I stated blitzed my quads and when I woke up this morning my legs were sore all over. So yoga was definitely needed today.

I have really began to love yoga again. I know at first if you have never done it as I had not when I did P90X, you really hate yoga, but you realize how important it is during that first week. You do Chest and Back on day 1 and then Plyometrics on day 2 and day 3 you wake up so sore. When you get to Yoga X you do an hour and a half and 45 minutes of that is upward and downward dog. All the vinyasas and warrior poses. Tony points out how hard you are working and sweating and you are standing still (other than the frequent wobble during balance moves). After you finish yoga for the first time, you realize how not sore you are. Ding!!! The light goes off in your head and you finally get what every coach has ever told you. Stretching is important! It just took the most difficult stretching and balancing routine you have ever done to figure that out. Most of us, especially guys, need to be punched in the face with the reality of it all for it to sink in.

You may loathe yoga. You may hate yoga. You may get a sour stomach at the thought of yoga. The truth is you know YOU NEED YOGA. I knew that then and I know that now. It was never more apparent than today as I got up with all the soreness from really pushing my workout yesterday and then you start (albeit reluctantly) doing your yoga routine. I sit here now almost an hour since finishing the yoga and I feel so good. I almost think this should be a daily thing and maybe at some point in my life, I might do that daily. Right now, I will stick with the P90X3 program as it is written.

For all of you who don't like yoga. I challenge you to find the one thing you dislike the most and work to own that. If it's balance, which is my issue as well, then work hard in that area. I know some people really have issues and it is hard to work that, so I have kept a chair close by or even close to a wall and use one hand to aid in the balance. Even though you use that crutch, whatever it is, focus on that position and getting away from the crutch. When you feel all those muscles working and the twitching in those legs or leg, you know your working and building strength for that move. It is not like any other type of workout, you will need to do it more than one time a week to get better. Don't give up on it and for goodness sake always do that in it's rotation. Skipping yoga in the P90X or X3  series is a huge mistake. I would say X2, but I have no knowledge of what they do in that one.

All I am saying is give yoga a chance. You may hate it, but if you stick with it and keep an open mind about it, you will get great benefits. Doing yoga is like forming a diamond. Take a piece of coal and over time and pressure you will get a brilliant diamond. Start doing yoga and over time and with the effort (pressure) you exert you will become that brilliant diamond in the form of a more flexible, limber and muscular you.