Yoga for wimps and it still hurts!

[elfs]

Yoga for Wimps is a simple book full of simple photographs of people in various yoga poses that aren't supposed to be challenging. The idea is that you can start with these and, if they work for you, you keep doing them and get serious. Someone bought me the book many moons ago, but now that I'm working at home I seem to have more back pain, so I tried out one of the exercises for back pain.

It seemed simple enough: lie on the floor, on your back with your legs up on a chair or couch such that your hips and knees are both at 90-degree angles. Lay your arms out at your sides at a 45-degree angle, palms up. Flex your back so all of it is touching the floor. Touch your thumbs to the floor. Hold for five minutes.

At the end of five minutes, my right arm, but not my left arm, felt like it was on fire. It's probably all the mousing. I'm looking into what I can do to reduce that pain, because that's just not acceptible.

Comments

[kistha.livejournal.com]

Do shorter sets would be my first suggestion. Work up to the five minute mark.

You could also look into AIS (Active Isolated Stretching) it works differently, using the way muscles work in order to get better results faster, but the idea is the same - gain strength and flexibility. I think there's some good tutorials on You Tube. You'll need a bathrobe tie or a rope to do it by yourself.