If you’re still having joint issues or would simply like to become more spry, I’d recommend you look into Bikram Yoga. Apparently it was scientifically proven to confer health benefits (I’ve never attempted to vet this claim since personal experience supported it).
If the claim is true the study may have been done by Japanese scientists—if you find and wish to read the original article, but it’s not yet translated, let me know and I’ll summarize the sections you’re interested in.
My joint issues have largely vanished since I lost weight, although I am taking yoga back up. (Yoga was one of my last experiments before I started gaining weight; I’m naturally quite flexible, but am approaching the age where this will start to decline, and wish to avoid this.)
The idea of a hot room is not at all appetizing. That sounds exactly like the kind of weather I routinely -avoided- as a youth in the swamps of East Texas.
I’ve performed strenuous activity in two types of hot rooms: a wrestling room, and bikram’s room. The wrestling room was poorly ventilated, humid, and I could barely breathe. Bikram’s room was extremely well ventilated, fresh, and I could breathe about as well as I can on a chill breezy day.
If you’re still having joint issues or would simply like to become more spry, I’d recommend you look into Bikram Yoga. Apparently it was scientifically proven to confer health benefits (I’ve never attempted to vet this claim since personal experience supported it).
If the claim is true the study may have been done by Japanese scientists—if you find and wish to read the original article, but it’s not yet translated, let me know and I’ll summarize the sections you’re interested in.
My joint issues have largely vanished since I lost weight, although I am taking yoga back up. (Yoga was one of my last experiments before I started gaining weight; I’m naturally quite flexible, but am approaching the age where this will start to decline, and wish to avoid this.)
The idea of a hot room is not at all appetizing. That sounds exactly like the kind of weather I routinely -avoided- as a youth in the swamps of East Texas.
I’ve performed strenuous activity in two types of hot rooms: a wrestling room, and bikram’s room. The wrestling room was poorly ventilated, humid, and I could barely breathe. Bikram’s room was extremely well ventilated, fresh, and I could breathe about as well as I can on a chill breezy day.
Make of that what you will.