The Uptowner Yoga Challenge: Week #1

We kicked off the 8 week Yoga Challenge at The Uptowner this morning with 6 men looking to get stronger, more flexible, and injury resistent.  The idea here is to see what happens if we commit to doing power yoga once per week for 2 months.  What kind of changes are we going to see?  Time will tell.  So with that in mind, we started with your basic sit and reach so that we could get a crude baseline measurement of our current flexibility.  Mine was not good.  Feel free to post yours in the comments so that you can look back at the progress.

The Thang

• Wide Leg Hamstring Stretch
• Twisting Torso Stretch
• Split Leg Hamstring Stretch
• Standing Side Stretch
• Sun Salutations (x3)
• Runner’s Stretch
• Crescent Pose
• Warrior 1
• Warrior 2
• Reverse Warrior
• Triangle Pose
• Twisting Triangle Pose
• Chair Pose
• Prayer Twist
• Namaste

Moleskin

• The PAX knew YHC was serious when I showed up in my slippahs.
• My biggest fear was assuaged as HVAC let me know he was all for the Yoga Challenge.  I hadn’t communicated it with him and was worried he would not be excited about it.  He views it as good preparation for the Classic, so I am now even more all in.
• Kimchi started the next cycle in his new “rest on the 70th day,” training plan.  Good to have him back.  Yesterday just wasn’t the same.
• At the encouragment of Bogè, I tried a couple of different voices for the Q.  It was decided that YHC should use the calm, soothing yoga Q voice instead of the normal, bootcamp style Q voice – it was better for our flow.
• YHC has misplaced his travel speaker; otherwise, we could have vinyased to the beat.  If I can’t find it for next week, I challenge Bogè to start learning some Enya.
• I got really cold afterwards.  I googled and apparently that can be a thing once you reach a state of transcendentalism; although, chills are usually the result of moving to an unheated cabin in the New England woods.
• I hope JV gets the above joke.  If not he should thoreau his Yale diploma in the trash.

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