"Believe that you can" is the first step toward trying it; trying is the first step toward doing.

[xiphias]

The short version: Arthur Boorman was a paratrooper in the Gulf War. Eventually, the cumulative toll of repeated jumps took a devastating toll on his knees and back, and he was no longer able to walk unassisted, with no expectation that that would ever change. Unable to move easily, and depressed about it, his heath suffered, and his weight ballooned, which didn't do his knees, back, mobility, health, or depression any favors. . .

Then, eventually, he started trying to see if he couldn't go in the other direction.

Comments

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

OMG I love this.
Thank you. THANK YOU!

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Just started looking for DDPYOGA via Google. 100s of hits, mostly promotional. I was looking for balance or objectivity, at least some comment other than "You should get this!" or "I just started and I'm feeling great!" Here's one:



reply #5 to Diamond Dallas Page has a yoga video?
Originally Posted by TheDeviot

Yeah he has been doing it for a few years. Originally it was known as YRG (Yoga for Regular Guys).

If you look on the DDP Yoga site you can find a video of an amazing physical transformation of Arthur Boorman. If that doesn't prove to you that this program works then nothing will.

As for the price of the program, you can make 3 payments of $35 a month but once you get it you will see you will have to then buy a heart monitor and change your eating habits which again costs money.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't think this says much about the yoga program in specific. The fact that the guy who does that yoga program gave Boorman individual help DOES do something, but I think that Boorman's transformation has more to do with Boorman, and less to do with DDP Yoga specifically.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

It does have to do with Boorman, but it also has to do with him having an instructor who believed in him and who gave him the tools to transform himself. So, yeah, kudos to that instructor and his program.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Yes, about the instructor giving him the tools. But I don't think that THAT particular set of tools is necessarily better than another set of tools. Being GIVEN the tools, and having the instructor to work with -- THAT'S important. Which tools specifically you're using? Not irrelevant, not unimportant -- but definitely a distant third place to the individual drive, and the support of the instructor.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Yep. The tools could have been any physical discipline that provides progressive resistance training. In this case it happened to be yoga. The instructor knew he was dealing with a paratrooper, who obviously understands the concept of persistence and overcoming obstacles. So there wasn't any question of the student quitting as long as the teacher maintained contact and provided good instruction.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I admit to some sniffling when he got to the shot where he was running.

[stitchwhich.livejournal.com]

This made me cry. Thank you for posting it.