Included in the P90X program is a day of Yoga. Which you may be thinking "ick" or "yoga is not for me". Well I thought the same thing when I first started P90X. But since I made a commitment to the program I decided to stick it out. And I am so glad I did. My flexibility is improving, my posture is better, just my general well being is better. Yoga is really hard but if you stick it out you will reap great benefits.
Here are a few words from Tony Horton.
More Incentive to Stick with YogaBy Tony Horton
If there were a way to feel full of vim and vigor in your golden years, wouldn't you want to know about it? Now that I'm pushing 50, I'm writing about the golden years. More and more studies are saying . . . Strike a Pose.
That's right. Even if you've never tried yoga before, regularly practicing some simple yoga stretches and poses when you're older can give you back some of the energy and flexibility of your younger years. Here's a laundry list of all the other health benefits.
After six months of taking beginner yoga classes, men and women ages 65-85 reported:
• Feeling more energized compared to how they felt before they started
• Less pain overall in their day-to-day lives
• Feeling more outgoing socially (can you say hippocampus?)
• Having better balance
• Greater flexibility in their trunk and limbs
Not only that, yoga may be good for your heart, too. A study used a group of people with heart disease who adopted a "yoga lifestyle," a holistic approach to health including eating right, getting those zzzz's, and maintaining a generally positive attitude. Heart disease lesions diminished in almost half of the people who had signs of the disease at the beginning of the study.
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