Never Expected This

POWER Yoga! Sounds intimidating, doesn't it? I thought so. I joined a health club - just a two month membership with my daughter. She broke her toe dancing and wanted to do something to keep in shape and she likes the exercise bikes. So, we joined a health club for two months.

I saw on the class schedule: POWER Yoga! and thought I'd give it a try. I haven't been to an actual yoga class in years, but I have been doing (and enjoying) YogaX - the 90 minute Yoga DVD that's part of P90X.

So, I went in this morning, not sure what to expect. The room was full with maybe 15 others and an instructor. The moves were all familiar. The instructor didn't go in the same order as Tony Horton does in P90X, but there was a lot of similarity in what she focused on.

At the end of the session, I felt great. There wasn't a single move I couldn't do and I felt great throughout. The reason for the title - Never Expected This - is that afterwards, two people came up to me and asked me how I was able to do all the moves. The other guy in the class (the rest were women) said he was surprised by how flexible I was. They asked me if I'd done a lot of yoga and I told them "not really, just what I've been doing in P90X." I never expected anyone to notice or say anything about me being able to do the yoga moves. It was really kind of nice.

So, long story short - yoga today was great. I wouldn't be able to do what I was doing without P90X and I have to say, even though yoga isn't supposed to be competitive, it's impossible not to look around to see what others are doing. And when I looked around, this 48 year old guy was doing it well enough for people to notice. And that felt pretty cool.