Day 4: The Trick is to Keep Breathing

I got off work a little early today, and got started right in on my workout for the day: Yoga X. I used to take yoga classes at school for a couple of years, so I'm looking forward to this one. Now, I know a lot of you probably think of yoga as something for relaxation (or contortionists, maybe), but probably not as hard exercise. Yoga X, however, is basically power yoga, which keeps me breathing hard and moving almost constantly, and I start to sweat fast! Just like the good ol' college days, oh yeah! Most of the postures are pretty familiar, but man oh man, am I out of practice! Stuff I used to be able to do quite easily, I can now barely hold for a second or two! For example, in warrior 3, you're bent at the waist with a flat back, then holding one leg straight behind you, then your arms straight out in front of you. I couldn't keep balanced for the life of me! Half moon wasn't any better. Here, you're still bent at the waist with your leg out behind you like in warrior 3, but then, you twist at the waist and hold your back arm up in the air, with your fingertips of the other hand touching the floor... yeah, those will take some time to master. After what seems like a hundred different vinyasas, standing and seated postures, I'm sweatin' up a storm, my limbs feel limp, and we seem to be wrapping it up.. but then Tony announces this thing he calls the Yoga Belly 7... I don't like the sound of that... it's seven different postures that set my abs on fire, but I get through them... more or less... Some of them I can only hold for a few seconds at a time, like the scissor or half boat, but you gotta start somewhere! Finally we end with a few cool down postures, and corpse pose (this one's the best... You just lay there!), wrap up with some deep breathing and we're done! It felt great to do yoga again after so long, why did I ever stop??