It’s yoga. Is it hard or easy?  Is it good or bad?  I think the consensus is that it is good. Really good.  But it’s hard…really hard. At least the X version in P90X.  It’s also long.  Have I mentioned the 90 minute time cost?  I think that is what you end up dreading the most.

Last nights Yoga went well.  There was a point 30 minutes in where I looked at the clock and thought “WTF?!? 60 more minutes!!!”.  But that quickly turned into 40 and then 30 and by then we were into the balance and stretch stuff.  Once you get through the Warrior sequence things do seem to lighten up and become more manageable.  The trick is getting to that point.

Yoga.  I know the importance.  I can’t stand the length of it.  The kids were all having a rough night and we ended up cutting the workout short at about 50 minutes.  I have not spend a lot of time digging into what other peoples complaints are about Yoga X.  From just reading other P90X blogs it seems like there are quite a few mentions of this.  My biggest complaint is just the length. 90 minutes is tough no matter the time but at night it is almost excruciating.

Slowly but surely we’re beginning to see improvements in our ability to do the P90X workouts.  In previous Yoga sessions I couldn’t do Warrior 3.  In this one I was able to attempt most of the sequence involving the warrior 3 stuff.  Slowly my strength and endurance is improving.  Some days I don’t notice but it’s day like the Yoga session where I can see that change first hand.  It feel very good.

Bleh. What a workout this turned out to be.  Started off great with a lot of effort and sweat.   Unfortunately, the in-laws came into town and my wife was wiped out.  Once she dropped out to talk to them and I hit the end of 45 minutes I let myself off the hook and pushed stop on the DVD.  Oh well. I gotta give myself a little break and regroup.  One bad night isn’t the end unless I lose motivation and let it derail me further.  That’s not happening.

First day of the recovery week. Seems like just yesterday I was doing yoga in week 3.  I came into the workout thinking it was going to be rough.  I didn’t get a lot of sleep the night before because of sick kids.  It ended up being one my better Yoga days.  Still couldn’t do every thing but I got a good sweat going and was able to do more than in any previous yoga session.  I even was able to do crane for a very little bit as opposed to not at all.  I can tell my overall strength and balance is improving with each day and week.