Just a few minutes ago – he sent me a link to this website: thesmugalert.com that has an article making fun of yoga. I’m getting really sick of his crap. Any suggestions?
i appreciate all the advice. thank you. i’m going to bring him to breakfast after my class tomorrow and try to talk to him about this.
@ Quetzalcoatl
Wow! Those links are great! Thank you!!!
Hi YH, you’re welcome. Particularly Sidersky is pretty interesting, I’ve downloaded some of his stuff, but it’s all Russian, too bad. The Russian Yoga-scene is very interesting anyways, it seem much more… down-to-earth and raw, not so stylized and modernized and watered down. I might, if I find the time, post some info about them and link some more stuff. Who sees these guys in action and calls Yoga something for lil girls and not hard must be out of their mind.
thanks for all the advice guys. taking the boyfriend with me to class tonight!!!
we can both laugh at that smugalert.com thing now too. i’m going to be a little less sensitive, hes going to give it a try! he plays soccer and i convinced him that it’d be good for him.
wish me luck!
Since Quetzalcoatl gave links only with male practitioners, I thought I would add videos of Ana Forrest to the “hard core list”:
in case your boyfriend would say that only guys can do such advanced stuff and you are not able to reach this level.
[QUOTE=YogaHelps;58625]thanks for all the advice guys. taking the boyfriend with me to class tonight!!! we can both laugh at that smugalert thing now too. i’m going to be a little less sensitive, hes going to give it a try! he plays soccer and i convinced him that it’d be good for him.
wish me luck![/QUOTE]
Aww I’m so pleased to hear this!! I knew he was just teasing and it was all in good fun! Congrats on convincing him to come to a class with you! I’m sure he will understand your passion for it now and even if he doesn’t at least he was open minded enough to give it a try!
Yay congrats!
Your boy is right. But if you do heavy duty, fast moving yoga you can build up ‘some’ cardio a little. You can add lite weights for yoga as well. But doing yoga is better than not doing a thing. If boy gets on your back, find another boy.
Hi, I’m a newbie here but I just wanted to chime in a bit… 
I never really thought that Yoga would be an exercise… I had basically mostly thought it was just a lot of relaxation and stretching… until I did the P90X program–once a week there is a yoga video to do and it is SOOOOO hard!!! I was shocked at how much I sweat.
My husband who formerly considered Yoga as “gay” couldn’t even get through one session of it and now has a newfound respect for it–although he has no motivation really to ever do it on his own… but he is about to do another round of P90X and says he will commit to doing it every week this time around (the first round of P90X he did he did skip the yoga days probably a little more than half of the time and did another workout video instead).
After 3 months of doing yoga from P90X just once a week I improved in strength and flexibility so so so much.
You should try to get your boyfriend to at least commit to a month’s worth of yoga classes that you take so he can have a truly informed opinion on it.
[QUOTE=YogaHelps;58109]So I’ve doing yoga a few times a week for about 3 months now and I’ve really come to enjoy it. I feel like I’ve rediscovered myself and I yearn for my tuesday nights and Saturday morning classes all week.
Unfortunately, my boyfriend gives me crap on the reg - trying to tell me that yoga isn’t really “exercise” because it doesn’t involve a whole of “cardio” – i’ve tried to get him to do it with me – or even do the p90x version of cardio which i’m sure he’d think was “more manly”.
Just a few minutes ago – he sent me a link to this website: thesmugalert.com that has an article making fun of yoga. I’m getting really sick of his crap. Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]
I think its a psychological reaction to your being into something really really intensely. It is also a fear of “losing” someone because yoga changes ones personality. When one becomes closer to inner stillness, their entire outlook towards life transforms…and it can be very disconcerting to those who dont realize whats happening inside the individual and can ascribe it to smugness etc.
Depending on your respective age and maturity these are things tat might need to work themselvs out. One thing i can tell you, its no fun to tease someone who doesnt react strongly to the teasing…it soon gets boring and old.
So my advise is to not let it get to you…when you feel irritated, transform that into good old fashioned laughter by joining your friend in poking fun at yourself. Self deprecating humor is a great antidote for tht kind of teasing…
How did it turn out? Has his attitude changed?