Quote Originally Posted by Staurm
Fuck that shit man, don't ever get into a routine. And yoga is for winding down, not warming up. Warm up by going for a walk, walk until you are tired. Then when you go home if you feel energtic throw some dumbells around and do some press ups, otherwise do some light yoga. If you don't then maybe the next day. Get the blood pumping through your heart before you try lifting anything heavy. You don't need excessively heavy weights to put on some muscle either. Use the same weight until you feel like your not lifting anything and you can throw them around like they are weightless, and then build up that way. Use the same weight for ages and don't worry about how many reps you do. Wind down afterwards by relaxing and stretching. Sleep on a hard surface if you can. I sleep on the floor using a quilt as a matress, I wont have it any other way.

Actually yoga has warm up excercises, we used them to warm up at Yoga class . And sorry man but I can't go for runs like you, the spine's just too fricked up.
As for the weights, I actually did it by the method you describe for 3 years, and baaaaaaarely saw results. It's when I changed to the system I do now, where I have plenty of weight but still enough that I can curl 30 times, that I've seen major results. Not as stong as my friends, like I said, but a hell of a lot stroner than I was. At the rate I'm going, I'll surpass them all within the year.


You say you know yoga stretches. You know the one where you have to lift your leg into the air, stretch it out and hold? From time to time you move it at a 45 degree angle?
I think what you're describing is the warrior 2 pose.

Don't do it for very long since you have a considerable amount of pain, but in burst, it's pretty managable.
I don't even bother with that one anymore. It's all good if you're actually going for a yoga workout, but the weights just proved better.