Random Thought Thread

[Spartacus87]

P90x has a day just for yoga. The whole thing is an hour and a half long. **** me did it kick my ass the first few times I went through it. I never thought much of yoga but it did wonders for my athleticism, flexibility, and strength. Keep at it dude.

Yeah, this class was about 90 minutes, with only the last 15 being a cool down/meditation part. I could hold a lot of the stretching poses, as well as most of the balance poses, but I had no chance at doing things like rolling all of my body weight on to my shoulders while pointing my whole body up in the air towards the ceiling, or folding my legs up over my head. Took me awhile to get a hang of the breathing tricks too, which is a pretty key part of it. I guess the one part of a real yoga routine that I didn't quite expect is that there really aren't any breaks- any "rest" you get is just an "active rest," where you're still working something.

There was one absolutely ripped older lady, looked like she was probably in her mid to late 50's, but she was holding perfect handstands and doing all kinds of crazy stuff. At the beginning of the class, I said that it was my first time doing yoga, and she gave me a big thumbs up and a smile. But then this younger guy next to her (who had already taken his shirt off), gave me a sort of awkward glare. I'm pretty sure he looked at me as a dumb noob.

A good buddy of mine has been doing yoga about once a week for the last month and a half and has been hyping it up to me, and I've always been curious about giving it a try. Apparently I got the "easy" Sunday beginner's class instructor though- the normal instructor is a lot harder, but she was out of town this weekend.

The real reason I went today though was because I've been dating this girl for the last month, and she used to go to this yoga studio like 3 or 4 times a week, but has kind of fallen off lately and wanted to start back up today, and I told her I'd go with her to check it out. I don't know how many more times I'll go, it's only 7 dollars per class which is pretty good, but I'll see. I'm more concerned about getting myself back on track with my lifting and especially my running.

[Mr. Sinister]

Yeah, this class was about 90 minutes, with only the last 15 being a cool down/meditation part. I could hold a lot of the stretching poses, as well as most of the balance poses, but I had no chance at doing things like rolling all of my body weight on to my shoulders while pointing my whole body up in the air towards the ceiling, or folding my legs up over my head. Took me awhile to get a hang of the breathing tricks too, which is a pretty key part of it. I guess the one part of a real yoga routine that I didn't quite expect is that there really aren't any breaks- any "rest" you get is just an "active rest," where you're still working something.

There was one absolutely ripped older lady, looked like she was probably in her mid to late 50's, but she was holding perfect handstands and doing all kinds of crazy stuff. At the beginning of the class, I said that it was my first time doing yoga, and she gave me a big thumbs up and a smile. But then this younger guy next to her (who had already taken his shirt off), gave me a sort of awkward glare. I'm pretty sure he looked at me as a dumb noob.

A good buddy of mine has been doing yoga about once a week for the last month and a half and has been hyping it up to me, and I've always been curious about giving it a try. Apparently I got the "easy" Sunday beginner's class instructor though- the normal instructor is a lot harder, but she was out of town this weekend.

The real reason I went today though was because I've been dating this girl for the last month, and she used to go to this yoga studio like 3 or 4 times a week, but has kind of fallen off lately and wanted to start back up today, and I told her I'd go with her to check it out. I don't know how many more times I'll go, it's only 7 dollars per class which is pretty good, but I'll see. I'm more concerned about getting myself back on track with my lifting and especially my running.

I've always been intrigued with yoga, or at least the meditation aspects of it. And to be honest, I don't even think I'm flexible enough to do even half of that **** without snapping my spinal column, so I'll probably pass.

Theres a yoga class at the Golds that I go to in the evening, and it's literally all women, and there are a few GI Jane looking chicks in there too. It's mostly 40 and 30 somethings in there. They do take it very seriously though. I've always had a lot of respect for that type of workout though.

[Spartacus87]

I've always been intrigued with yoga, or at least the meditation aspects of it. And to be honest, I don't even think I'm flexible enough to do even half of that **** without snapping my spinal column, so I'll probably pass.

Theres a yoga class at the Golds that I go to in the evening, and it's literally all women, and there are a few GI Jane looking chicks in there too. It's mostly 40 and 30 somethings in there. They do take it very seriously though. I've always had a lot of respect for that type of workout though.

Eh, the beginner's class type of stuff isn't entirely that hard, from a flexibility perspective at least. There are a few positions that can be pretty tough to nearly impossible for a rookie, but if somebody is even an average athlete and already in decent shape they shouldn't be killing themselves with most of the stretching that's required.

Honestly, the hardest part for me was simply having to hold certain poses that worked my core and upper body muscles in ways that they're definitely not used to be worked, and getting the breathing techniques down.

I've heard Hot Yoga is completely ridiculous though. The studio I went to today does it a few times a week, and the girl I went with told me that she's been to a yoga class immediately after the Hot Yoga class, and they literally have to blast the A/C on its highest level to help re-cool the room, as well as mop and clean the floors from the actual pools of sweat that people create. I can't imagine working out in a 115-120 degree room with a group of other people, let alone doing something like yoga. My friend who's been doing yoga for about a month and a half now tried it once, and he said he threw up after about 40 minutes.

[ixcuincle]

Extremely hungry but can't eat anything.

[thebluefood]

Extremely hungry but can't eat anything.

Hunger strike?

[terrifNick21]

Extremely hungry but can't eat anything.

I know the feeling.

[ixcuincle]

Tony Kornheiser better be doing a live show today.

[Spartacus87]

I forgot to mention this last week, but Florida State is the only school in the country to produce a 1st round pick in each of the:

NFL (Christian Ponder)
MLB (Sean Gilmartin)
NBA (Chris Singleton)

2011 drafts. As Larry David would say: pretty, pretty, pretty good.

[The Evil Genius]

I forgot to mention this last week, but Florida State is the only school in the country to produce a 1st round pick in each of the:

NFL (Christian Ponder)
MLB (Sean Gilmartin)
NBA (Chris Singleton)

2011 drafts. As Larry David would say: pretty, pretty, pretty good.

UTexas just missed...

[Sticksboi05]

I forgot to mention this last week, but Florida State is the only school in the country to produce a 1st round pick in each of the:

NFL (Christian Ponder)
MLB (Sean Gilmartin)
NBA (Chris Singleton)

2011 drafts. As Larry David would say: pretty, pretty, pretty good.

There's 4 drafts, not 3.

[ACW]

Man, feels like I've been
I go now.

[ixcuincle]

I was very angry to learn today that Pierre McGuire would no longer be doing TSN games. Big part of World Juniors telecasts.

At least americans will see more Pierre on Versus / NBC though.

[terrifNick21]

In an hour or so, I'm going to go spill my heart like never before.

God I hope it goes well.

[ixcuincle]

Noted NC State legend Lorenzo Charles was killed in a bus accident.

"They won it...on the dunk!"

RIP

[STBonecrusher21]

Ok I just downloaded a torrent that consists of 5 albums. When I open them all of the songs are compressed in to one big file. So the album plays as one long song. Is there anyway to seperate them? Its a FLAC file