p90x - Round 1 beginners

Wow, I really Kenpo X! Week two *almost* in the books, tomorrow's my day of rest, so close enough! 11 short weeks to go. Weeeeeeee.....!

Week 1 Day 2:

First round of Plyometrics and oh wow did that hit me hard. I'm not a cardio girl so a lot of these circuits really made me push. I wasn't able to keep up with their speed on some of the moves, or occasionally their height (especially the high jump kicks and rock star moves), but I only took one extra 30 second break around the midway mark so I'm pretty proud of that. Got a great calorie burn. I'm feeling very accomplished coming out of today's workout and I'm confident I'll only get better with it from here!

Week 1 Day 4:

Yoga X...I am unimpressed to say the least haha. I do yoga fairly regularly and have since I was about 15 years old. Although some moves in Yoga X were of moderate difficulty the entirety of this DVD was not giving me anything I needed from yoga. He just isn't a yoga instructor. He mentioned very little on breath control, one of the most vital components of yoga, and actually instructed against proper body alignment and configuration needed to get the most out of a lot of the moves. I often had to modify them myself just to get the stretch and positioning I knew I needed.

Not his fault I guess, but the yoga he designed seemed to be for beginners, or for men who over the course of the program will be gaining more muscle groups so quickly that they are likely to loose a lot of their flexibility. This makes sense, and as such I completely agree that yoga is such an important part of the exercise process, but this DVD just isn't for me. I'm going to replace it with my own yoga exercise (which will likely be a good half hour shorter than his, because honestly that's getting a little long).

So for today I didn't complete the DVD. I did it for about 10 minutes, then fast-forwarded to see if it got any better. I paused it to do some of the better constructed, trickier moves, but all in all I did about 35 minutes of it. Very dull lol. Going to do Cardio X on these days instead, along with my own yoga, from now on I think.

Did anyone else have this problem with Yoga X?

Week 1 Day 4:

Yoga X...I am unimpressed to say the least haha. I do yoga fairly regularly and have since I was about 15 years old. Although some moves in Yoga X were of moderate difficulty the entirety of this DVD was not giving me anything I needed from yoga. He just isn't a yoga instructor. He mentioned very little on breath control, one of the most vital components of yoga, and actually instructed against proper body alignment and configuration needed to get the most out of a lot of the moves. I often had to modify them myself just to get the stretch and positioning I knew I needed.

Not his fault I guess, but the yoga he designed seemed to be for beginners, or for men who over the course of the program will be gaining more muscle groups so quickly that they are likely to loose a lot of their flexibility. This makes sense, and as such I completely agree that yoga is such an important part of the exercise process, but this DVD just isn't for me. I'm going to replace it with my own yoga exercise (which will likely be a good half hour shorter than his, because honestly that's getting a little long).

So for today I didn't complete the DVD. I did it for about 10 minutes, then fast-forwarded to see if it got any better. I paused it to do some of the better constructed, trickier moves, but all in all I did about 35 minutes of it. Very dull lol. Going to do Cardio X on these days instead, along with my own yoga, from now on I think.

Did anyone else have this problem with Yoga X?

Not that specific problem b/c I have never done Yoga prior to this, so I wouldn't know any better. But the general concensus I get is most people don't like Yoga X, whether it's too repetitive, too long, or others reasons. I think a lot of people replace it with something else. Another option I hear people do instead is his one on one Yoga DVD, Fountain of Youth. It's half as long and supposedly better.

OK I am apparently horrendously out of shape because I tried Yoga X for the first time last week ... and it kicked my butt. The actual poses were not too bad... but the getting down to the floor 1 million times just exhausted me. I actually loved it though and I am looking forward to doing it again.