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Halloween Jack posted:Actually doing Diamond Cutters as part of your yoga routine is loving ridiculous, and if it didn't help my neck and shoulders I wouldn't keep doing it Head up, shoulders back, chest out. I do diamond cutter as part of my jits cool down, feels real good.
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I gotta say i think i posted in this thread or another one about nervously wanting to try out DDP yoga like two months ago and it's really been helping. i still can't stand for a long period of time without pain but i can already tell my physical stamina's improved a lot and is closer to where it was when i was working standing up, moving around jobs. not like, all the way there, but getting there. And even though like, i'm a big woman and i haven't really lost weight something about doing these exercises with a lot of encouragement from the videos and like, actively making an effort to get my health back has made me feel more comfortable in my body on a day to day basis. Despite missing a week due to college finals season, even. Genuinely, DDP Yoga rocks. highly reccomend it.
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CombineThresher posted:DDP yoga also doesn't differ much from more traditional yoga besides different names for things, which is kinda nice considering how insufferably new age most yoga people are. I mean, normal yoga isn't structured like a cardio workout, so alongside the welcome lack of new age bullshit, that makes DDPY all the better imo
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For what it's worth, my best friend and his wife are both yoga instructors with varying levels of new age poo poo in their lessons and were both really impressed with what I showed them from DDPY videos. Basically their opinion is that it's actual good yoga with dumb bro marketing. They also commented that people that do intense yoga for a long time end up with "yoga body" which apparently DDP has big as poo poo.
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I feel like I read in at least one autobiography (possibly one of Foley’s) that DDP was always a big yoga guy because he knew he was breaking into the business old as poo poo and likely to break down fast.
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did they share what some of the distinguishing features of yoga body are? 1.) newfound ability to spit flame and teleport short distances
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History Comes Inside! posted:I feel like I read in at least one autobiography (possibly one of Foley’s) that DDP was always a big yoga guy because he knew he was breaking into the business old as poo poo and likely to break down fast. For some reason I thought he was a yoga skeptic until he got injured in WCW, begrudgingly tried it, and found that it helped his pain a massive amount.
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I remember some anecdote of Foley's where DDP was sitting in the hotel room with ice packs taped around his knees and elbows, which sounds about right for getting into the business in your 30s.
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Halloween Jack posted:I remember some anecdote of Foley's where DDP was sitting in the hotel room with ice packs taped around his knees and elbows, which sounds about right for getting into the business in your 30s. Also he'd just wrap I think it was Saran wrap around his joints, which may absolutely be a thing.
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Halloween Jack posted:I remember some anecdote of Foley's where DDP was sitting in the hotel room with ice packs taped around his knees and elbows, which sounds about right for getting into the business in your 30s. I started training when I was 36 and was very pleased to find out they made ice packs with velcro straps. Truly a godsend.
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Ganso Bomb posted:For some reason I thought he was a yoga skeptic until he got injured in WCW, begrudgingly tried it, and found that it helped his pain a massive amount. Yeah: The New York Times posted:Page never quite had Roberts’s natural talent — he didn’t break through until age 35 — and his body suffered for it. During his career, Page tore both rotator cuffs, the meniscus in his left knee (twice) and the A.C.L. in his right knee. Then, at 42, he ruptured a disc between his fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae while trying a move known as a “top rope supplex.”
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Barry Bluejeans posted:great story, could've done without the part where they picnicked at or near a huge mural fawning over confederate heroes it's Georgia, they would have had to leave the state to find a spot without one
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cancelling DDP for hiking up and doing yoga on a racist mountain
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StarkRavingMad posted:Yeah: You can tell when he gets into yoga while watching WCW because they do some interviews making fun of him for it.
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Barry Bluejeans posted:great story, could've done without the part where they picnicked at or near a huge mural fawning over confederate heroes It's a badass mountain with a lovely confederate theme park built around it. poo poo is problematic and should be torn down, but the nature part of the park is super rad and for many many people in metro Atlanta, the only bit of decently preserved nature you're gonna get without driving hours or putting yourself in a river thats been compromised by years of industrial run off.
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MassRafTer posted:You can tell when he gets into yoga while watching WCW because they do some interviews making fun of him for it. On that note, did it ever come out that his self-help gimmick in WWE was his own idea or was it Vince and co. riffing on his fondness for yoga as well?
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It's weird that western bros turned yoga into a "chick thing". Traditionally it was originally all men before it branched out, and now insecure men are embarrassed by... good stretching?
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Insecure men are embarrassed by washing or even wiping their rear end, so it checks out
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Nea posted:I gotta say i think i posted in this thread or another one about nervously wanting to try out DDP yoga like two months ago and it's really been helping. i still can't stand for a long period of time without pain but i can already tell my physical stamina's improved a lot and is closer to where it was when i was working standing up, moving around jobs. not like, all the way there, but getting there. And even though like, i'm a big woman and i haven't really lost weight something about doing these exercises with a lot of encouragement from the videos and like, actively making an effort to get my health back has made me feel more comfortable in my body on a day to day basis. Despite missing a week due to college finals season, even. The weight loss usually comes more with a change in diet as well, but it's good to hear that you're getting stronger and more comfortable in yourself. You're doing great.
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sticklefifer posted:It's weird that western bros turned yoga into a "chick thing". Traditionally it was originally all men before it branched out, and now insecure men are embarrassed by... good stretching? Yoga was illegal in Alabama for thirty years because of it’s connection to Hinduism.
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sticklefifer posted:It's weird that western bros turned yoga into a "chick thing". Traditionally it was originally all men before it branched out, and now insecure men are embarrassed by... good stretching? Bro if you're not squatting 500 lbs. every day what kind of lame workout are you even doing bro?
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If your body feels better instead of worse after working out, then you're not loving doing it right
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i don't think it was ever the stretching that was the issue
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bebaloorpabopalo posted:i don't think it was ever the stretching that was the issue Stretch me if you can
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Barry Bluejeans posted:did they share what some of the distinguishing features of yoga body are? Mainly stretching arms really far. For real, I think it's the way your chest ends up developing in a weird skinny but toned way as opposed to big meaty titties on weightlifters (basically Kofi vs Big E; no, I'm not sure of Kofi's a yoga guy, but it wouldn't surprise me).
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Yoga was illegal in Alabama for thirty years because of it’s connection to Hinduism. Not surprising. Though the only real red flag I've seen in modern yoga is that some places still do practices created by literal sex cult leader Osho.
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Fun fact, this ban was only overturned LAST YEAR. The ban was only for public schools though; not like yoga in general was illegal.
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Yoga exercises are fine and good in and of themselves but I can't handle the pseudoscience and woo that permeates the entire scene. Plus there's quite a few scammers and sex pests in yoga, too. Bikram of Bikram Hot Yoga being another. The longest I ever got into yoga was when I found an instructor who only talked about physiology and nothing about "energy" or "spirit", using words like "effort" or "focus" instead.
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Martial arts has the same problem. Teachers give advice on nutrition and medieval Japanese history and other things they don't know much about. Some of them are deliberate charlatans, most are just passing around pseudoscience and folklore they learned from their own teacher.
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If you don't want to deal with that side of yoga just go take flexibility classes instead. They'll torture you very nicely.
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Halloween Jack posted:Martial arts has the same problem. Teachers give advice on nutrition and medieval Japanese history and other things they don't know much about. Some of them are deliberate charlatans, most are just passing around pseudoscience and folklore they learned from their own teacher. I've just come from watching a bunch of videos on aikido 'masters.' We're talking the ones who flip people twice their size with one hand or just sort of bounce people off their chest. Or, you know, Steven Seagal.
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It's also true that the majority of martial arts masters are bad at the one thing they're supposedly good at. I think most yoga teachers can at least teach yoga.
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steven seagal taught anderson silva how to defeat vitor belfort, i'd watch it before calling him a fraud
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STONE COLD 64 posted:steven seagal taught anderson silva how to defeat vitor belfort, i'd watch it before calling him a fraud Don't stop there! He also "taught" Machida how to defeat Randy Couture!
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He also taught me how to love
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titties posted:He also taught me how to love Pro tip: Don't take love lessons from a rapist
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that and you're taking lessons from the wrong source  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYSOZc6IVQ
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