The Average Joe Fitness

A few years ago, I worked with this guy that swore by yoga. When I first heard him talk about how he did yoga, I laughed. At the time, hear­ing about a yoga class stirred images of an exer­cise stu­dio filled with women in span­dex per­form­ing weird stretches and poses.

Now this guy was 6’6″ and a solid 220 pounds. He told me that by incor­po­rat­ing yoga into his work­out regimine, it helped him in with two key areas, flex­i­bil­ity and strength. Both of these were of great inter­est to me. One, because of the work­out rou­tines I had been doing for the pre­vi­ous few years had left me feel­ing tight and stiff in a few spots and, two, I was always look­ing for new ways to gain strength and limit plateaus.

Fast for­ward about two years. I now start see­ing the P90X infomer­cials on a rou­tine basis. What catches my atten­tion? That P90X was devel­oped based on the con­cept of “mus­cle con­fu­sion” and one of the rou­tines it incorporated — yoga.

Yoga X is most cer­tainly not a light work­out. It gets the blood pump­ing and it gets the sweat flow­ing. The posi­tions chal­lenge not only your flex­i­bil­ity, but your strength and endurance. After I fin­ished this rou­tine this morn­ing, I had a tremen­dous amount of energy that lasted through the day. Yoga X is a fan­tas­tic work­out.

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• P90X, Day 90 – Yoga X
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