It's a higher impact thing than it looks like. Muscles are forced to flex and stretch simultaneously, and held that way for a long time. You do a curl, it's just flex and shorten and release. You think it's easy putting your head on your arse?
No, it's not easy to kiss your own ass.
pdog - only if you do it right. so, if I do the power yoga everyday, I'll get all buff and svelt again?
Got me. The only Yogis I look to for guidance are Bear and Berra.
mmmm, seemed like you knew what you were talking about.
Maybe in the dim recesses of time I dated dancers for a while who did this kind of thing...
maybe? Ha, must have been very dim back then.
Maybe. And maybe I was taking acting classes in a degree where there was lots of yoga and other unmanly stuff going on. Maybe. And it was very dim. It once rained for 40 days and 40 nights. There was no deluge, but lots of flooding in the surrounding towns and mudslides on the highway. This much I remember. And slimy things with legs walked upon the sea, or some such. You'd have to ask Coleridge. He's got all the details. (Though he is very stoned and very dead, so you might have trouble getting a sensible answer out of him.)
While you, on the other hand, are chock full of sensible answers...
I am chock full
if the chock is empty.
How much wood would a woodchock...
Oh, never friggin' ming.
I'll ming if I dang well please.
The lucidity of PD's mind, like a welcoming beacon on a storm-tossed sea, on a rock-bound coast . . . er, somethin' like that . . .
MING! I'd stick with the onboard GPS, bub. I have enough trouble being responsible for my own well-being, thanks.
"Beer: Milk for Men"
My brother recently bought an "exercise ball". Inflatable rubber thing that you sit on, roll around on (fall off of) etc. I didn't think it would do anything but it made my muscles stiff.
Actually, working on those rotten valve positioners yesterday has made me sore.
Wilso, I usually go to a gymnastics class on Tuesdays. We use these balls and it's great for back exercise. It's pretty easy to sit straight on a ball. Of course, I keep falling off if we have to lie on that thing and lift the left arm and the right leg at the same time.
But for all kinds of workout with weights, rubber bands etc. is perfect to sit on. I can only recommend it.
I tried to do a couple of things. Lucky noone was watching me
For a minute there, I thought this was going to turn into one of slappy's
"rectal cranium inversion" threads.
Whew!
That was close, nice save Wilso.
Oh the swiss balls (and I am not talking abt those which dangle in pairs)
Yeah, I use them for my weight training - apparently they work the small muscle groups (while u r trying to balance yr butt on them) and imporve posture and sense of balance. I also use them while doing crunches or situps. I am pretty okay now, but initially I used to provide quite a bit of entertainment in my gym by falling off regularly off them darn things....
one of them popped at my gym recently, apparently - they all disappeared overnight - 'twas like a galaxy being sucked into a black hole.....
