Mr. Spock Does Yoga, You Can Too!

I'm glad that FT got around to acknowledging my shot at his missing a workout because now I can more easily making a joke out of the fact that I missed my very next one. Essentially for the same reason, I just ran out of time in the day on Thursday. I didn't completely miss it, but it ended up being an abbreviated form. Even a little Yoga is too much in my opinion.

I hate to keep bashing Yoga, there are thousands of people who enjoy it everyday. I just can't get into it. It's not a stupid macho thing, I got over crap like that back in the Marine Corps. The potential benefits of it are obvious and there's no arguing that it's a great workout.. just measure the sweat.

Problem is that it's BORING. The ability to clear your mind is mandatory because once it kicks in the only thing through it is "damn, this is boring". It's not a balls to the wall high impact, alpha male workout like Plyometrics or Cardio X. It's slow and methodical and requires a high degree of discipline. There's very few positions that are actually hard to do, it's the tedious approach to get into and then hold them while the burn sets in that's the killer.

On top of that, it never gets easier. While you can get better at it. By design you are constantly forced to push harder so it always hurts at least as bad as it did the last time.

You wouldn't catch Captain Kirk doing yoga and he'd certainly give his Vulcan first officer a certain amount of ribbing for calling it "a workout" (of course Spock does yoga). So, falling back on geek motivation, the reason to stick with Yoga even when it hurts like hell is the fact that Spock will kick Kirk's ass every time. add to del.icio.us saved by 0 users