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Mental health and Yoga

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I'm doing P90x which includes YogaX on the 4th days. Considering the "extreme" portion of P90x, why is yoga included?

If people haven't seem P90x YogaX (YOGA FLAME!!!!!), you do a lot of holds, stretches and even... humming.

I can understand the benefit to your mental health and maybe it helps with the nervous system, but I don't get how this made it in the P90x curriculum.
 
I don't know P90x but you said you do yoga on the 4th day so I assume you are doing high calories workouts the first 3 days? By doing yoga on the 4th day that gives your body a rest. You don't want to do 5+ straight days of high intense works your body needs a rest and yoga is good for that on the 4th day.
 
LOL...CALORIES, it's all about the CALORIES.

If you don't think that flexibility ties in directly with strength or that holding an advanced pose is taxing on the body...you need to do a bit more reading.
 
KIAman said:
Cool. How does flexibility burn calories?
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Well, it prevents injury. Let's say you injury your hip flexor because you didn't stretch properly. Let's also say that this injury keeps you out of commission for 2-3 weeks. Assuming you typically participate in circuit training, full-body work-outs for an hour per day, you likely burn 300-400cal less depending on your weight. If you work out 5 days per week, that's 1500-2000cal per week that you are now not burning.

Injury prevention is probably the most important part of exercising. Nobody likes it, but it will help you continue your regimen and maintain your longevity. Don't get so caught up on calories. Get caught up on getting healthy. Weight =/= health.

On top of that, as other posters have said, it's an active recovery day. It still burns calorie and improves isometric strength.
 
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Thanks, the resting period and injury makes sense. As to flexibility, there are a bazillion other ways to improve it and didn't seem appropriate to slot in YogaX to the P90x routine just for that.
 
KIAman said:
Thanks, the resting period and injury makes sense. As to flexibility, there are a bazillion other ways to improve it and didn't seem appropriate to slot in YogaX to the P90x routine just for that.
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Yeah, but it's easier to make a yoga session than a general-flexibility-without-a-name session... or a PNF session, which I'm sure everyone would love, lol.
 
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