men in yoga class....
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What do you mean? Like, should there be men in yoga class? Do I think they're straight or gay? What thoughts do you want?
There have been men in every yoga class I've ever taken and I never thought anything about it.
Pshhh, i get asked if i am gay all the time because i wear French cuff shirts that are pink or purple with jerry Garcia ties but truth is i am and can be perverted and i love beautiful women. So i was curious if a woman saw a man in class and assumed 'another one here for the view'. As stated by others, including myvfriends, where else can you find women in tight pants with their *kitten* in the air. I don't want to be "that guy"
Dude. I would be very gay If French cuff shirts, custom suits, pink and purple ties and shirts, and generally giving a **** about how I look made me gay. I'm pretty sure that there's a bit more to it than that . . . but let me go ask a friend
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Well, he had a question and I wanted to answer it, but I wasn't quote sure what it was based on the OP.What do you mean? Like, should there be men in yoga class? Do I think they're straight or gay? What thoughts do you want?
There have been men in every yoga class I've ever taken and I never thought anything about it.
I think this is a fun post, more than a serious question. The question is a bit odd though. I never gave a second thought about doing yoga. It's a really super great way to stretch. I feel fantastic afterward. I wish I would do it more often.0 -
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Why would it be weird? RDJ does it.
I've never done yoga, and this isn't exactly selling me on it...0 -
i take a hot yoga class twice a week. its usually about a quarter guys- anywhere from 4 to 8 or 9 out of about 25 to 30. being a guy i was nervous it was going to be all women, but it wasn't. and once inside, everyone is so focused on their own stuff, i have no idea what anyone else is doing, guy or girl.0
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I am, this is my cardio exercises
Is yoga considered cardio? You are just sitting there and meditating, right? Resistance training seems to describe it better, I think.
No wonder you don't get it... you don't know what yoga is.0 -
Why would it be weird? RDJ does it.
I've never done yoga, and this isn't exactly selling me on it...
My boss is from India and says he learned yoga from a master, or whatever he called him, and said that Americans do yoga wrong and for the wrong reasons. I explained that it can be anything and in the USA, it's kind of an exercise too. He said they have that too in India for the advanced folks, but it takes a lifetime to get there. Whereas here, Americans push way to hard to achieve. It's not about that. Anyways, I'm just rambling. Too much coffee.
To be honest, not a lot of real yogis left in India either. Most of the people who do yoga in India also do it for the wrong reason and the wrong way. Like I said earlier, the original yoga wasn't really about a workout or even medidation (like many want to think nowadays). It was simply a 1 man circus show that evolved out of the necessity to survive for the saints and worshippers. There are of course still true yogis in India but most of the time, the commercialized yoga masters aren't really yogis either. And the western yoga is just laughable.0 -
I do it because it makes me feel good. I like the stretch and the relaxation, but also the increase in flexibility (though I'm pretty naturally bendy, which helps me get into those more advanced poses) and the better posture and strength. I'm not competitive about it. I've done it long enough that I just do it on my own in my living room now instead of paying for classes.Why would it be weird? RDJ does it.
I've never done yoga, and this isn't exactly selling me on it...
My boss is from India and says he learned yoga from a master, or whatever he called him, and said that Americans do yoga wrong and for the wrong reasons. I explained that it can be anything and in the USA, it's kind of an exercise too. He said they have that too in India for the advanced folks, but it takes a lifetime to get there. Whereas here, Americans push way to hard to achieve. It's not about that. Anyways, I'm just rambling. Too much coffee.
It really is a very healthy, good practice and it can decrease injuries in other exercises when you do it regularly.
Right now, I'm recovering from a shattered left wrist and fractured right elbow, so any poses that require weight on my arms are not easy and I can't flow between up and down dog. I hate it. It used to be so easy and now I can't do it at all (pain in my wrists and decreased arm strength). I'm working on it. My PT pretty much ordered me to do both poses, though, to work on strength and getting full range of motion back so I'm trying!0 -
Why would it be weird? RDJ does it.
I've never done yoga, and this isn't exactly selling me on it...
My boss is from India and says he learned yoga from a master, or whatever he called him, and said that Americans do yoga wrong and for the wrong reasons. I explained that it can be anything and in the USA, it's kind of an exercise too. He said they have that too in India for the advanced folks, but it takes a lifetime to get there. Whereas here, Americans push way to hard to achieve. It's not about that. Anyways, I'm just rambling. Too much coffee.
I always enjoy the "Americans don't get it" arguments. I heard that a lot about martial arts when I was living in Japan and listening to rants on the importance of kata movements. It's also the main reason that I waited until we returned to put my daughter into MMA classes. I didn't need some xenophobic and sexist asshat telling her she didn't "get it."0 -
My best friend is tatted from feet to neck and does yoga regularly. He enjoys the odd looks he gets.0
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My best friend is tatted from feet to neck and does yoga regularly. He enjoys the odd looks he gets.
I'm overweight with tattoo's and I wear Nintendo or Star Wars shirts, I get some weird looks lol0 -
I think you should do whatever you want. Give it a try! I go to an all-women's gym, so I have no idea if guys do yoga on the regular, but I don't think it'd hurt to be the only male, right? 0
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I'm a dude and I do Piyo, A mix pilates and Yoga strength Hybrid Strength class. I'd love it. The muscle builds are longer and leaner vs round and bulk. Cause body building target a certain set of muscle group and it doesn't show you where you are weak. Yoga, it's quickly evident that what and where are your problematic areas and you can use Yoga or other weight training and exercise to quickly shore them up. And not to mention some of the poses are very cool to do and to achieve.0
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My best friend is tatted from feet to neck and does yoga regularly. He enjoys the odd looks he gets.
I'm overweight with tattoo's and I wear Nintendo or Star Wars shirts, I get some weird looks lol
Attention *kitten*!0 -
My best friend is tatted from feet to neck and does yoga regularly. He enjoys the odd looks he gets.
I'm overweight with tattoo's and I wear Nintendo or Star Wars shirts, I get some weird looks lol
but, do you wear them to yoga?0 -
I love yoga... and his little friend booboo.
No seriously, yoga is great. I see nothing wrong with us men doing it.0 -
What do you mean? Like, should there be men in yoga class? Do I think they're straight or gay? What thoughts do you want?
There have been men in every yoga class I've ever taken and I never thought anything about it.
Pshhh, i get asked if i am gay all the time because i wear French cuff shirts that are pink or purple with jerry Garcia ties but truth is i am and can be perverted and i love beautiful women. So i was curious if a woman saw a man in class and assumed 'another one here for the view'. As stated by others, including myvfriends, where else can you find women in tight pants with their *kitten* in the air. I don't want to be "that guy"
Dude. I would be very gay If French cuff shirts, custom suits, pink and purple ties and shirts, and generally giving a **** about how I look made me gay. I'm pretty sure that there's a bit more to it than that . . . but let me go ask a friend
Dude, not sure why this rant but you obviously read something wrong....
Rant? Mild sarcasm meant to be humorous and definitely not ranting. Apologies if it came off that way, but lighten up!
You know...some yoga could probably help with the obvious rage issues. (I joke....I keed)0 -
My best friend is tatted from feet to neck and does yoga regularly. He enjoys the odd looks he gets.
I'm overweight with tattoo's and I wear Nintendo or Star Wars shirts, I get some weird looks lol
but, do you wear them to yoga?
Of course!!! I am who I am!!!0 -
Yoga class - sure.
Yoga pants - HELL NO!0 -
I burn about 200 calories in an hour of intense vinyasa flow yoga. I have read you can burn 600 an hour, but I don't know who's making that stat up.I am, this is my cardio exercises
Is yoga considered cardio? You are just sitting there and meditating, right?
Modern yoga is extremely intense and you burn a decent bit of calories and earn flexibility for your body.
It IS intense and effective and a wonderful exercise in many ways. It doesn't burn a lot of calories, though.
The Piyo hybrid, the same week I started doing an insanity class, session for session, I burn about the same calorie 620-650 range in both classes.0 -
My best friend is tatted from feet to neck and does yoga regularly. He enjoys the odd looks he gets.
I'm overweight with tattoo's and I wear Nintendo or Star Wars shirts, I get some weird looks lol
but, do you wear them to yoga?
Of course!!! I am who I am!!!
You get the weird looks because you're Canadian.0 -
Why would it be weird? RDJ does it.
I've never done yoga, and this isn't exactly selling me on it...
My boss is from India and says he learned yoga from a master, or whatever he called him, and said that Americans do yoga wrong and for the wrong reasons. I explained that it can be anything and in the USA, it's kind of an exercise too. He said they have that too in India for the advanced folks, but it takes a lifetime to get there. Whereas here, Americans push way to hard to achieve. It's not about that. Anyways, I'm just rambling. Too much coffee.
I always enjoy the "Americans don't get it" arguments. I heard that a lot about martial arts when I was living in Japan and listening to rants on the importance of kata movements. It's also the main reason that I waited until we returned to put my daughter into MMA classes. I didn't need some xenophobic and sexist asshat telling her she didn't "get it."
I dunno about karate but for yoga, its not so much that Americans don't get it or that they're doing it wrong, its just that it isn't yoga. Which is fine and the western yoga is actually pretty healthy and flexible imo. I think my personal gripe with it is that they used a term that was sacred to many in the pure form and butchered it to the point that many Indians don't even recognize it anymore and its all completely commercialized now.0 -
Topic: Women in the weights area, lifting heavy...
Discuss whether they should be there...
Yes, I am being very, very, very sarcastic, but hopefully using a sledgehammer will have made the point...
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BUMP.0 -
It's on the agenda in future.0
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My best friend is tatted from feet to neck and does yoga regularly. He enjoys the odd looks he gets.
I'm overweight with tattoo's and I wear Nintendo or Star Wars shirts, I get some weird looks lol
but, do you wear them to yoga?
Of course!!! I am who I am!!!
You get the weird looks because you're Canadian.
In Canada we all look the same!
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I am, this is my cardio exercises
Is yoga considered cardio? You are just sitting there and meditating, right?
Modern yoga is extremely intense and you burn a decent bit of calories and earn flexibility for your body.
I did not know that. I was thinking it was more like Pilates where you do different poses and hold your body in that position. That's interesting that they've added cardio to it.0 -
I am, this is my cardio exercises
Is yoga considered cardio? You are just sitting there and meditating, right? Resistance training seems to describe it better, I think.
No wonder you don't get it... you don't know what yoga is.
True. I have only ever played sports, lifted weights, or swimming, biking, hiking, running, walking. Everything I have seen of it has been people talking about meditation and becoming flexible and staying posed in a specific posture and such. I never knew they changed it and added a cardio element.0 -
Yoga class - sure.
Yoga pants - HELL NO!
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