Ashtanga and Ju Jutsu

I’ve been doing Ashtanga with regularity now since December and I’ve had some great – though slow – benefits so far. The two biggest areas of improvement which I felt in the space of 3 sessions was:
Balance – this has improved and still gets better every time I do another session. There’s a lot of [...]

Ashtanga – Day 1 of 2009

Thursday is meant to be plyometrics.  However, I did that on Wednesday (got confused) and so for New Year I did 1:30 of Ashtanga Yoga with David Swensons DVD.
Oh how I hurt.  I used to think Ashtanga made you sweat and heave a lot but it wasn’t much of a workout as such.  Certainly not [...]