I may have overdone the let's try an advanced move in yoga thing.
I may have overdone the let's try an advanced move in yoga thing. I can't move my arms all that well and my back and one leg are threatening to disown me. There's good muscle sore, and there's bad muscle sore. This is that omg I can't move it and it aches so badly one. Even ice and ibuprofen are making minimal headway. It didn't hurt while I was doing it! So much stupid. So much ow.
Power yoga kills me every time I do it. Which isn't often, which ensures the next time will be bad again, etc
ReplyDeleteEvery time my instructor starts setting us up for power triangle, I'm pretty sure someone laughs because everyone is visibly cringing at what is about to happen to us. However, that move is hard enough to be unpleasant when you're doing it and when you feel it 1-2 days later. I'm curious what position it was that did it to you.
ReplyDeleteIt was this transitional thing where they were trying to teach us the full-on hard core technically correct way of "flowing" (hah). It went from down dog through some leg in the air thing very briefly through a lunge sort of thing into a plank on your toes and fingertips then you were supposed to lower from that, still in plank-like position, without any other part of you touching the ground to about an inch or so off the ground, then scoop through to high cobra, at which point you could gently (bwahaha) lower everything from your lower abdomen to your feet onto the ground. Through this, you were supposed to keep your arms basically where they would line up against the side of your body, with the elbows pointing back, not sideways, when they were bent. Flowing was not so flowing and gentle lowering was more like collapsing at some point, although some of us managed to get much closer to the ground before said collapse.
ReplyDeleteIn case you want to look up some tips, you're talking about a chaturanga, at least for the the plank-tricep-push-up-scooping-into-cobra, and it is not something you learn to do well in one day. It's done a lot in both vinyasa yoga and bikram, but bikram is way regimented and you do everything like a million times. One modification that I thoroughly recommend is to go ahead and put your knees down during the push-up portion, as well as if/when you go from cobra or plank to downward dog. I know it's more of a workout if you don't let anything drop, but if you're not used to it, you can seriously mess up your lower back if you do it a lot in one session (which it sounds like you did). Anything with tricep pushups is hard, IMO, but nothing gets better results.
ReplyDeleteAs for the leg in the air-to-lunge part, I'm sorry to say I will likely never be able to do that 100% right. I just have to much ahem me in the way to pull my knee far enough forward. I actually love it when the exercise is more about flow and less about holding one position forever and ever, so I keep trying.
Sounds about right. I think they think we've been working up to it, but, yeah, no, not so much. The air to lunge thing doesn't work for relatively body proportion reasons, as well, although I can do it. However, my knees aren't great, so I have pretty much decided that I will be stopping in the middle in a sort of table pose, and then moving one leg at a time into a lunge. It don't flow, but it don't hurt, neither.
ReplyDeleteEven after two years, there are certain things that my instructor says we can do/try "if we want" that basically just gets her laughed at. Like going from crow to plank in one smooth motion (there are a couple who are able to, but the rest of us are still trying to get into crow properly). Just watching other people doing it makes me cringe, so I doubt I'll ever have the guts.
ReplyDeleteI could dream about it, but if I was in that kind of shape, I wouldn't be whining about how much pain I'm in. I think I'll just work on pain free.
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