DDPY and yoga

Cdog923 said:
My wife was doing some Barre classes before the shutdown; she's got access to their digital archive, and I've been doing some of them with her, along with riding our exercise bike and doing some free weight work. I'm also going to do the 100 pushups workout again. It's been a long time since I've done it, but it works; I was able to get up to about 120 pushups the last time I committed to it. 
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That pushup thing sounds like a good idea. I've been missing free weights since the gym closed. Ultimately I'd like to get a home power rack and some adjustable dumbbells. The DDPY incorporates some slow, controlled pushups but I might have to try adding that in as well.

 
I would like to throw in at least a day where I do some yoga but I can't ever force myself to take the time to do it.

We still have our bike from our cycle studio, so I do their live classes a couple times a week. Walk the dog a lot. Then just do a lot of pushups, pullups, and free weights in the basement. 

 
BigRedBuster said:
Who is DDP?
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BigRedBuster said:
Doesn't help. Never was into fake wrestling.  
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He's a pretty cool dude. Made it as a big star in wrestling in the 90s at a relatively old age (I think late 30s to early 40s) but he wound up blowing out his L4-L5 discs which almost ended his career. He took up yoga at the time and wound up liking it so he developed his own yoga-centric exercise program. I've never been a home workout guy but it gives me something to do while we're all stuck inside - and I am looking to drop a few lbs.

He's a colorful, positive guy though, which helps.

 
I've never been a fan of or cared about wrestling either, but I understand it now. Fake isn't the right word for it, and presumes that it's an actual sport, which it isn't. It's more akin to performance theater. Calling wrestling fake is like calling action movies with stuntmen fake. Technically kind of true but sort of misses the point and diminishes the amount of talent and skill involved in what they're actually doing.

 
It's really a cool deal; a lot of former pro wrestlers and other athletes use it to help ease pain and regain a lot of their movement, in addition to losing weight and exercising. 

 
Cdog923 said:
It's really a cool deal; a lot of former pro wrestlers and other athletes use it to help ease pain and regain a lot of their movement, in addition to losing weight and exercising. 
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I've actually thought about trying it.  I was told I shouldn't run anymore due to knee problems.

 
BigRedBuster said:
I've actually thought about trying it.  I was told I shouldn't run anymore due to knee problems.
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I'm actually in a similar boat. I've done a lot of heavy weight-lifting in my life and I've had a couple scopes on my left knee. I think I first tweaked in high school ball.

Makes it hard to do high-impact stuff without irritating the knees. I've found the DDPY stuff generally doesn't bother them, helps keep lower body muscles flexible and is adaptive enough that if something does cause trouble I just change the way I do it.

YMMV but I've found this stuff and sticking to lower-impact cardio methods helpful.

 
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