Starting Yoga Soon

**GIJoe6186** · Posted On: 8/24/2006 8:45pm

Thats right, Im taking Yoga and the best part is....its FREE. My school has a physical education requirment and we need to take 2 classes to meet it. I signed up late and it was Yoga, weightlifting, raquetball or backpacking. Yoga seemed best cause maybe it will make me loosen up(I dont stretch enough). Next semester I want to sign up earlier though because they offer a Judo and Karate course. Id like to see how those are done. Judo would be cool and I could see myself having fun there but witht he Karate, I think Id probally challenge the teacher to Gong Sau.

**RunningDog** · Posted On: 8/24/2006 8:48pm

Starting another thread soon too?

**SevSB** · Posted On: 8/28/2006 1:49am

I dont know why in the hell you would take yoga over weightlifting.... When people lift weights they stretch before anyways....Sure yoga may "loosen you up" but then again why not just do stretches at home, and loosen up that way, without having to listen to the "bring your hands back to your 'dan-tien'" a million times. I definitely advise you to take Judo. Its a useful martial art, unlike its alternative (with several style acceptions eg. kyokushin etc.).

**GIJoe6186** · Posted On: 8/28/2006 2:03am

The Judo class is full. I already weightlift and do fine with that. Yoga seemed like a good idea. It does help with flexability.

**Moleculo** · Posted On: 8/28/2006 2:17am

Comparing weightlifting to yoga is like comparing Bob Sapp to Rickson Gracie.

**LI GUY 1** · Posted On: 8/28/2006 3:48am

Originally Posted by RunningDog

Starting another thread soon too?

Still practicing _ing _un????

**Teh El Macho** · Posted On: 8/28/2006 5:30am

Originally Posted by SevSB

I dont know why in the hell you would take yoga over weightlifting.... When people lift weights they stretch before anyways....Sure yoga may "loosen you up" but then again why not just do stretches at home, and loosen up that way, without having to listen to the "bring your hands back to your 'dan-tien'" a million times. I definitely advise you to take Judo. Its a useful martial art, unlike its alternative (with several style acceptions eg. kyokushin etc.).

You've never done a 90 minute session of power yoga ever, have ya? :evil6:

**pauli** · Posted On: 8/28/2006 12:10pm

Originally Posted by THX-1138

Comparing weightlifting to yoga is like comparing Bob Sapp to Rickson Gracie.

not... going... to... say it... not... going... to... say it...

**FormatC** · Posted On: 8/29/2006 1:58pm

Congratulations. You will probably really enjoy yoga, especially since you're already doing strength training. How often does the class meet? If you are really interested in improving your flexibility, you should consider augmenting your yoga with other types of stretching throughout the week. Yoga is basically a big heaping dose of static-active stretching, which is dificult in its own right (no wonder people say yoga's hard!) and it shouldn't be the only type of stretching that you do.

But I'm just some loon on the intarwebs...

Check out Stretching Scientifically by Thomas Kurz for info on the different types of stretches (dynamic, static, active, passive). The book is a dense read, but the information is there, it's good, and here is a great web page where the author does Q & A which clears things up a bit: http://www.stadion.com/question_stretching.html

**MartialArtN00b** · Posted On: 8/29/2006 3:09pm

Im planning to enroll in power yoga too for this semester for uber cheapness.

Something to loosen stiff muscles after a week of bjj. It should be cool.