Thanks for all your comments! I really appreciate it. I did do yoga today for 25 min and then cardioX. I will continue to push thru and hopefully will begin to enjoy it as I get more flexible. I think the reason I dread it is because the poses are akward to me right now and I feel so clumsy moving from pose to pose.

I did like the idea of keeping the lights low and tuning everything else out. I found it easier to get thru when I did that. Good luck to the rest of you!!

Thanks again!

Glad to hear it, Denise! Hang in there!!

I'm doing Yoga for flexibility and to get ready for a knee replacement (old high school football injury and too much arthritis). I wanted to get flexible before the surgery to speed my recovery after surgery...and my return to P90X, of course!!

We're all in this together, so we'll keep cheering each other forward to greatness.

Sparta-bound!

Kevin

Hello Denise,

After reading your post very attentively, I find myself wonderring: do you really hate yoga ? Or maybe could it be that this routine is more challenging for you than some others?

If the latter is true, one way to look at it could be: the area where you're most challenged is the one where, with the same amount of training, you will gain the bigger benefit. It's often easier to go from 5 to 15% than from 85 to 95.

It can even be a lucky thing: by simply being at standard with Yoga X, you should be able to raise your overall fitness tremendously.

The Man says it often enough: do your best, forget the rest. Do your best is do good, it doesn't matter how good you're doing in the absolute.

I struggled with Yoga X initially, but this may well be my top one workout, or top 2 after Synergistics. Even with that, my current performance of Half Moon may qualify for Fitness Funniest Videos, believe me

Have fun with Yoga X. It's there for a good reason.

Cheers,

FE,
It's by accepting to get exposed to things we don't understand first that we expand and grow.

Coy G wrote:


Impossible is not a word we like to use in the p90x realm. Sure of course if you have a lot of fat it can be a problem to do certain things. But the goal here is to shed the fat and do the best that we can. So if certain things are too hard now does not mean that they will be too hard later. Just do the best that you can and if you can look yourself in the mirror and believe you did the best you could then thats all anyone can ask for.

Well, I said almost impossible and in the real world realm it is. You can't just jump into bench press and automatically push out 10 reps of 250, even if you impossible isn't in your daily vocabulary. Yoga is no different. And honestly "doing your best" isn't always doing what good. I've only done the Yoga workout once, but by doing Cardio X I noticed that my runner's stance, warrior positions, and upward dog positions are more fluent and crisp. Weird.

You are not alone. Just did yoga for the second time. I't seems as if this workout just drags. I swear it's got to be longer than it says. But it has helped me with my flexability. So I am going to continue doing it.