OK men, I have to come clean about something. I have participated in an activity that I do not believe Jack Palance nor John Wayne would have approved of. (And I am pretty sure we can all agree that those are the epitomes of manliness.) I have been hitting the gym pretty hard and frequently and I had a fellow gym member tell me that I should consider a yoga class to stretch out the muscles I have been punishing for the past 10 months.

"Yoga? But I'm not a hippie. I can't stand patchouli nor sandlewood and I don't hug trees. And I am certainly not 'poofy'."

It took me about 2 months after our conversation for me to consider it. After a particularly strenuous session of deadlifts, I was pretty damn sore and I just wanted to work the muscles loose. Thats when her words popped back into my head. So I looked up the calendar at my rec center and attended a yoga class.

I will tell you, I felt odd and out of place. Everyone there knew each other but they were all polite. Everyone did their stretching before the serious stretching of the class started. I just kind of stood there with my thumb up my ass because I don't know the first thing about yoga. The instructor arrived and got right into it with the hippy talk. Spirituality, expanding your awareness and so on and so forth... Then we start moving. She would say things like, "Now we are getting into our child pose" or "Come into the Downward Dog" and even a Warrior Pose.

At first I was snickering, but as things became more strenuous I actually started to sweat. And muscles started to burn. Legs started shaking and arms trembled. By the end of the class, I was pretty well spent. But I felt really good. Nice and loose! I was in a good mood just like I do when I have a good workout. I came home and told my wife about the class and that I surprisingly enjoyed it.

Then the next morning came. I could not move. I think rigor mortis set in. It took the entire day of walking and stretching to get back to a semblance of normalcy, but I can tell you that I did not go to the gym that day. However that following day I went back to the gym and had an even better workout and did not feel as sore as normal. So I believe that yoga may be a good idea after all. So much so that I actually did it again tonight. Thats two weeks in a row and I think I will continue to do it.

So in closing, even if you think it is lame or poofy or even hippy, maybe try it out anyways. It can only help you and you may even turn out to enjoy it. And if that isn't enough, Yoga pants. Think about it.

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This this post showed up on the main forum, I am going to chime in. Check this out:

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Diamond+Dallas+Page+Yoga&&view=detail&mid=9A007E586E2E404BBA299A007E586E2E404BBA29&FORM=VRDGAR

Diamond Dallas Page is a retired wrestler who says he has never done a crunch in his life. He promotes the concept that Yoga is sufficient for body-weight strength training. He says, "This is not your Momma's Yoga!"

It is definitely a "manly man" work-out. There are several routines posted on You Tube.

I've done yoga off and on. I really feel good afterwards and it makes leg day more tolerable.

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Yoga has been suggested to me as well, but there are really so many different types I wouldn't know where to begin or what is best for my needs.

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No worries, this isn't a sensitive subject so women may post in this thread. I only posted it in the Guy's section to increase content here.

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Yoga has been suggested to me as well, but there are really so many different types I wouldn't know where to begin or what is best for my needs.

I initially started looking for ways to calm down. I would recommend looking on YouTube. There's lots of styles demonstrated and you can see what appeals to you. I'm not so much into the power yoga stuff because of my anxiety. But even the kind of "spiritual" stuff is a hellofa workout

When I go, I usually do an "all levels" class because they give you options so that if you can't turn your body into a pretzel, you still get some benefit.