Matt's P90X Review: Yoga and why we do it.

For those of you who question why we do Yoga as part of the P90X program, read this.

From AM New York

Learn Tom Brady's yoga

If football star Tom Brady loves Baptiste Power Vinyasa Yoga, so will you. "It's great for flexibility, and it's therapeutic," says Brady. In fact, creator Baron Baptiste spent four years as the peak-performance specialist for the Philadelphia Eagles, proving this yoga is perfect for tough guys too.

Instructor Andrew Gray of Big Apple Power Yoga says this combination of poses is geared toward abdominal sculpting and back strengthening. It will keep you toned, balanced and.

1. Eagle Crunches

Wrap your right arm under your left and your right leg over your left in Eagle position. Extend your wrapped up arms over your head and your wrapped up leg long, toes touching the floor. Inhale extend, exhale crunch in bringing elbows to knees. Repeat 10 times. Switch your arms and legs and repeat 10 times.

2. Scissors Twists

Hands behind the head, elbows out to side, supporting the head and neck. Scissor the legs up and down while twisting the torso, working the waist. Opposite elbow to knee. Do a set of 25.

3. Bridge

Lie on your back. Interlace your fingers, straighten your arms and reach your knuckles forward toward your heels. Lift you hip bones high. Walk shoulders in to prop up your heart center. Press into feet to get more lift.

4. Boat

Come to a seated position. Contract your abdominal wall as you lift your legs and torso up, bringing your arms forward until they are parallel to the floor.

Alternate Bridge and Boat poses. Repeat 5 times.

5. Wheel

Lie on your back. Bring your hands by your ears, fingers pointing toward your feet. Bend your knees, feet flat on the floor. Come onto the crown of your head, bring your elbows in toward each other and straighten your arms, coming up into a backbend. Hold for five breaths. Repeat five times. Then rest on your back with eyes closed.

Matt's P90X Review Catching you up.

Hey everybody, It's been a while since I posted here. I have been getting my workouts in. I have been eating well. I am in week 6 of P90X now.

One of the things I have started to do is get a few workouts in at the office. Like everybody else, finding the time to workout was always an issue. Before I started the P90X, everything else would come first. Over the last few months I have made the switch. Getting my workouts in has move way up on the priority list. Getting them in everyday is a must now. So to accomplish this I had make some changes. Mon. Wed. and Fri. I do the Ab workout at lunch. The Ab workout is called Ab Ripper X and you do it on your strength/lifting days. The program has you do it once you finish the lifting workout. I like to split them because I am usually spent by the time I finish the first workout. This way I can give both the attention they deserve.

Tuesdays is Plyo and Thursdays are Yoga in the office. Yoga is well over an hour long so I only do the first half and then do the second half in the evening.

I decided I needed to do what I had to do to get them in anyway I could.

One of the things I find I am not doing that I did do the first round is count the days. During my first round I could tell you in a heartbeat what day I was on. Now I know what week I am in but what day it is is anybodies guess.

Ok gotta get the little one to bed.