Comments on: Mixing it Up Part II – Hot Yoga

By: Gusnark

Gusnark — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:17:26 +0000

Hi rvafighter.
I understand what you mean. You can warm-up by Yoga poses, no doubt about that.
I just think that primary exercises for warming-up are running, jumping or shadow-boxing, therefore using conditioning exercises. I always use stretching (traditional yoga) in the end for relaxing mind, muscles and body which is opposite of conditioning exercises.

By: rvafighter

rvafighter — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:32:26 +0000

Gusnark – Yoga is not just for relaxation and stretching…try taking a regular Yoga class and you’ll find that many poses are anything but relaxing. As far as our warm-up goes, we focus on a series of stretching and core-strengthing poses. Nothing close to a full class or traditional series of Yoga poses, but I’ve found it to be a nice switch from the regular stretching routine.

By: Gusnark

Gusnark — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:59:39 +0000

Seems like you guys have some experiences with yoga. I always found it interesting and important, but don’t know shit about it. It’s time to look into it.

rvafighter, you have yoga for warming-up?
That’s strange. As I’m aware yoga is for relaxation and stretching. Isn’t more reasonable to practice it at the end of training? Does any of you have the same schedule?

By: rvafighter

rvafighter — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:36:07 +0000

Great topic…very relevent to me…

My gym incorporates a 1/2 hr yoga warm-up into our training sessions once or twice a week. We use a few specific poses that help flexibility and core strength in the right areas (hamstrings, lower back, abs, etc), we basically skip any of the “relaxing” or “energy-releasing” stuff….I feel like I get a lot out of pad and bag work right after the Yoga warm-up….my body just feels different.

By: ShadyEskimo

ShadyEskimo — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:58:51 +0000

Yoga, Pilates, Stretching! I hate It but It is needed, if you wanna pratice Muay Thai, Never Tried any Yoga, but Its always been Interresting.

By: noise666

noise666 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:36:07 +0000

I am a big yogi myself, I practice Ashtanga Yoga every day. It really is an amazing workout. That being said, my wife and I did Bikram for a few weeks.

I think he, himself is an idiot for trying copyright his style, ha! Pretty silly. Bikram Yoga actually doesn’t have very difficult poses, and you don’t hold them too long to make it very hard. Where the difficulty comes into play is with the 90 minutes and the heat. With the people in the room, it can easily get to 115-120 degrees.

You should get yourself a nice Ashtanga Yoga DVD such as Bryan Kest’s Power Yoga series (3 Part – All On One DVD) and turn up the heat in your home. I don’t turn up the heat at all, and believe me – I sweat pretty good. Then again I sweat walking to the fridge, ha!

Good luck with the supplemental training. Yoga is amazing!

By: manant

manant — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:48:24 +0000

Did ashtanga yoga for a while.it was dead good but I was trying to do it on top of my normal training routine and it was to much on top of everything else.The other thing I quickly realised is that exactly like MT ( or any martial arts) you need to dedicate yourself to yoga to gain all the benefits out of it and I prefer MT.Im an all or nothing kind of guy.I felt just doing a bit of yoga every now and then, was doing it (the art form)and yourself a bit of a disservice.It didnt feel to me like the sort of thing you should drop in and out of.Lets face it although they pay the gym’s bills the people who train MT once or twice a week and then dont turn up for a fortnight are rarely taken seriously and arent really doing themselves any favours as far as learning MT goes.Thats how I felt about doing yoga part time?