Saturday, December 27, 2003
Yoga builds strength.
So often I am asked if I “work out” or do a weight training circuit, due to the way my 46-year-old physical body looks. It is a great compliment to be sure, however I am careful to appropriately assign the credit to yoga. Yes it is true: yoga has been my single most consistent and effective tool for all-over body fitness. I can honestly say that at my age, I am fitter and stronger now than I have ever been in my entire life. This month I would like to address some of the reasons why that is so and some of the ways you can make that so in your own practice. I would also like to address in the “Yoga Page” the phenomenon of men and yoga and how men can benefit from this truly amazing practice and some of the tools they can use to overcome the natural and imagined barriers from getting to a yoga class, because the benefits for them are perhaps even more profound than for the opposite sex.
