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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
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I agree with the above.
You choose the type / style of yoga that best suits you or your aims.
Sometimes mine is to just limber up, relax, disspiate negative enrgy and trim up a little. I'll do my 'hatha' workout for that. I also like to do this the day after my workout where I jog up Namsan and do lots of ab work. It really puts me back into alignment etc.
Sometimes I want a more physically intense workout with more strength and stamina invloved as well as the stretching and for that I do power yoga. This is cool as when I do this I don't need to do the Namsan workout as it's great for all round fitness.
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Koveras
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote: |
| Koveras wrote: |
| How does stretching make you weak? |
I'll just assume you missed the line where I said 'too much...'
Don't believe me do some research. I know from experience however. |
Yeah, I did miss that part. I looked into it a bit. What I found was that lots of stretching before lifting weights decreases performance during that session; and that too much passive stretching will create a deficit between range of motion and *control* of motion, possibly leading to injuries. I didn't find any studies that said that lots of stretching will make you weaker. |
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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| D.D. wrote: |
Are you a comedian? You talk about listening to your body and then you tell people to do hot yoga. Hot yoga is for idiots who couldnt hear their body even if they were having a heart attack. Then you post a video talking about intense yoga.
Real yoga involves lots of meditation and subtle spontaneous movements. Not some set pattern that every idiot in the class does. People who execise a lot tend to fall into the category of people who can't listen to their bodies. They are so stressed and don't know how to face the stress so they need to stretch and exercise to dissipate all of their tension.
Hot yoga-hahhahahhahha. |
That's because Hot Yoga is not really about meditation and relaxation. It's about getting a hardcore workout and increasing your strength and flexibility on the fast track. It's about pushing yourself to the limits mentally and physically. It's about breaking boundaries and pushing through limits, that's the philosophy behind it.
You're the idiot for assuming that hot yoga should be about meditation. That's not why most people do it. Most people go into hot yoga like they are going in for a battle. It's intense.
Some yoga is meditative and tranquil, some is intense. Neither one of them is "real" yoga. Both ways have been around since the beginning.
If you are too weak for it, go home and play with your toys, girly man. |
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TheUrbanMyth
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote: |
Intense stretching everyday will lengthen too mcuh and eventually weaken your muscles.
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Intense stretching everyday will not lengthen your muscles. This is impossible. Your muscles are attached to your bones. These attachments are known as origin/insertion points. The muscle can not go past the length of these...without tearing right off the bone. And it would require some pretty extreme stretching to do that.
Nor (performed properly) will it weaken your muscles. Muscles require regular exercise to keep them in shape. As long as you don't overdo it, you can stretch safely everyday.
This has been a public service announcement brought to you courtesy of The Urban Myth. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming... |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
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| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Wow the yoga instructors on both my DVD's (one is world famous over 30 years) and the yoga instructor I know personally, must be idiots then
The fact is that stretching lengthens muscles! It also strenghtens ligaments! And tendons!!!
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TheUrbanMyth
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:49 am Post subject: |
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| DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote: |
Wow the yoga instructors on both my DVD's (one is world famous over 30 years) and the yoga instructor I know personally, must be idiots then
The fact is that stretching lengthens muscles! It also strenghtens ligaments! And tendons!!!
Bye! |
If they argue with facts then yes they are. You can not make a muscle longer by stretching it. More flexible yes, but a muscle's length is governed by its insertion/orgin points. Any anatomy professor will tell you the same.
Bye. |
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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote: |
Wow the yoga instructors on both my DVD's (one is world famous over 30 years) and the yoga instructor I know personally, must be idiots then
The fact is that stretching lengthens muscles! It also strenghtens ligaments! And tendons!!!
Bye! |
If they argue with facts then yes they are. You can not make a muscle longer by stretching it. More flexible yes, but a muscle's length is governed by its insertion/orgin points. Any anatomy professor will tell you the same.
Bye. |
This is true.
But when you do yoga, you do stretch your muscles. They just don't permantently stretch out and lengthen like tendons and ligaments do. |
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rusty1983
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| Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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I was doing yoga on/off for a year or so. I find it hard to maintain a routine as Ive a very heavy workload. Its annoying cos I know if I just forced myself to go regularly then Id have the energy to go more reguarly if you get me.
I think ti is wonderful; sometimes afterwards Ive felt like I really was floating and am just so content to sit and do nothing. Then the way your mind follows your body the day after.
Anyways Ive got two things to ask about.
First of all, a while ago my regular yoga teacher went off somewhere and he got a woman to cover for him. She didnt teach my regular Ashtanga but what I believ is called Sivananda Yoga. This apparently involves doing 12 postures and 12 postures only. She said the theory is these postures done correctly are all you need to do and then afterwards your body will take care of itself. Have any of you tried this kind of yoga or do any of you practise it? What do you think of it?
Secondly, I havent been to yoga for over a month now. As I said before this is largely due to work commitments but there is another reason.
I was going to yoga twice a week, consistently, the most consistent stint Ive ever had and was planning on taking it up a notch. I had a month off booze and was feeling pretty good. However, I went for a game of football and it really, really knocked the days out of me. I was sweating almost instantly, was out of breath completely after about 5 minutes and was utterly out of it by about 20 minutes - I couldnt move.
Obviously yoga twice a week isnt gonna put me in the running for next iron man competition but I couldnt belive that I was still so clearly unfit after the amount of yoga I had been doing.
I felt good, strong and confident but when it came to actually running around I just wasnt there whatsoever.
I really like yoga and dont imagine Ill stop it entirely, but is there any form of it (or another exercise) that can give you the same togetherness and compsure but get your actual stamina levels up as well?
Does power/heat/bikram yoga do this? |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
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| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP wrote: |
Wow the yoga instructors on both my DVD's (one is world famous over 30 years) and the yoga instructor I know personally, must be idiots then
The fact is that stretching lengthens muscles! It also strenghtens ligaments! And tendons!!!
Bye! |
If they argue with facts then yes they are. You can not make a muscle longer by stretching it. More flexible yes, but a muscle's length is governed by its insertion/orgin points. Any anatomy professor will tell you the same.
Bye. |
This is true.
But when you do yoga, you do stretch your muscles. They just don't permantently stretch out and lengthen like tendons and ligaments do. |
I know this, you know this, he knows this. Any idiot with half a brain knows this.
Difference is neither you or I thought it ncessary to explain this, we thought it was taken for granted.... lol this site.... |
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karmarooster
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jeez this dwaeji is a bit over the top. trying to ruin a good thread. typical troll.....
anyways, i found this thread and had an interesting read. for much of the summer i've been going to a yoga studio near my apartment and doing hatha yoga 3x per week. it's pretty low impact.
i also go to the gym and do the P90x lifting program 3x per week, and then rest on sunday. i thought this was a good balance, and usually the yoga helps with the soreness in my muscles. however lately my body has been feeling much more tired. i'm in need of a good week off. does anyone know if this is a sustainable workout program?
i watched this bikram yoga video... is all hot yoga the same? back in new york i went to a hot studio a few times, but i don't think it was 110 degrees as mentioned in the video, more like 90. regarding hot yoga in korea, there is another hot yoga studio near my apartment that is only open to women. on the sign it says 38 degrees C, so about 100 degrees F. i would love to get into some hot yoga here in korea, but the only places i've seen that allow men are in gangnam and pretty expensive. |
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
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| Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| karmarooster wrote: |
jeez this dwaeji is a bit over the top. trying to ruin a good thread. typical troll.....
anyways, i found this thread and had an interesting read. for much of the summer i've been going to a yoga studio near my apartment and doing hatha yoga 3x per week. it's pretty low impact.
i also go to the gym and do the P90x lifting program 3x per week, and then rest on sunday. i thought this was a good balance, and usually the yoga helps with the soreness in my muscles. however lately my body has been feeling much more tired. i'm in need of a good week off. does anyone know if this is a sustainable workout program?
i watched this bikram yoga video... is all hot yoga the same? back in new york i went to a hot studio a few times, but i don't think it was 110 degrees as mentioned in the video, more like 90. regarding hot yoga in korea, there is another hot yoga studio near my apartment that is only open to women. on the sign it says 38 degrees C, so about 100 degrees F. i would love to get into some hot yoga here in korea, but the only places i've seen that allow men are in gangnam and pretty expensive. |
Look, no-one in their right mind is gonna let you join their yoga class.
Just forget about it. |
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D.D.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 4:02 am Post subject: |
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| I love how people who know very little about a subject think they know so much. Yoga is not about any of the reasons people have talkied about in this thread. Yoga is a word that means "union" . Choosing your own style is like a blind man choosing his own colour . The word yoga has been watered down to suit idiots. If you recieved the benefits of true yoga you would laugh at people who have turned it into a product for western minds. |
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dragon777
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| Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:11 am Post subject: |
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DD, you are so oblivious to the real meaning of yoga, so revel in your
own ignorance. |
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