Bikram Yoga

1.  It's a conspiracy to buy more towels and washing detergent.
Yes, I did bikram yoga.  Do you know what it is?  For the late person, bikram yoga is also known as "hot yoga."  It is a 90 minute yoga class where you do 2 breathing exercises and 26 yoga poses.  Oh, and the room you are doing all of this in is around 105 degrees and 50% humidity.

 

I really must thank some "friends" that stayed at our house a few weeks ago for this. My "friends" brought it up during their visit. And basically, my "best friend from kindergarten" talked about how great it was. April loves it, too. Me...never tried. Thought it was quite girly. Extremely anti. After they left, my wife hit me up and said..." I wonder what your thoughts on bikram yoga are NOW that your "friend" did it and enjoyed it?" I realized the conversation was going to be a lose/lose situation (for me). You know the conversation where you know you (me) will look like a jerk and complete A-hole at the end?  So, I caved. Thanks, "friends."

Back to my conspiracy theory.  Bikram has to be getting kickbacks from the towel and detergent industries.  I asked April what I needed to bring to a class.  She says:

• A hand towel to wipe your face.
• 2 large towels to put over your yoga mat.  Due to you sweating every ounce of water out of your body.
• Another large towel to put over your car seat on the drive home.  Because your body found some more water to sweat out.

 Do you realize how much those 4 towels weight after a class.  Its about 20 lbs of wet stinky towel.  And you can't just throw those things in the laundry basket!

Overall, I do enjoy the class.  I like that fact that you cannot talk for the 90 minutes in the class.  Quiet time is good, specially in a world that bombards you constantly with phone calls, text messages, emails, tweets, status updates and so many other things.  Yes, I am deep.  Plus, I need to lose some weight.  Over the past few months, I have slowly gained unwanted weight.  I just need to shock the system.  And let me tell you....you do lose weight.  I weigh myself before class and shortly after I get back home.  You do what?!?  What?  I weigh myself before and after class to see how much weight I lost.  That's weird.  That's not weird! I guess the next thing you are going to say is that weighing yourself before and after going to the restroom is weird, too.  Yeah, pretty much.  I don't have to take this.