RE: ashtanga yoga How to build strength in shoulders?

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Congratulations for starting something so challenging at your age! I too,

started ashtanga at 45 and I have gotten much stronger throughout the months

of continual practice. For me, personally, the greatest challenge was to

get past having to do it perfect or mastering each and every single position

in a month. I was very weak in the pushup area in the beginning and just

last weekend learned how do jump through correctly. It is amazing how you

can do something everyday and then one day someone explains it just a bit

different and the light goes on and you get "it!" I guess that is why PJ

says 99% practice, 1 % theory.

 

Hang in there, just do your best, no matter what that is and it will come.

Margee

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> logan8erry [sMTP:logan8erry]

> Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:00 PM

> ashtanga yoga

> ashtanga yoga Re: How to build strength in shoulders?

>

> ashtangayoga, "anniegurton" <annie> wrote:

> > Okay, so I just posted a message saying that by persevering with

> > your practice, pains and problems are eventually overcome, but no

> > amount of practice seems to build strength in my shoulders.

> > I *am* 53 and took up Ashtanga at 50, BUT, I do regular practice

> and

> > still can't jump forward to bring my feet squarely between my

> hands,

> > or jumpback from sitting. I do a bastardised version of both.

> > I also can't do backbends (lifting up from lying down) because of

> > lack of shoulder strength.

> >

> > I do believe that the practice is designed to build strength and no

> > other body building should be necessary.

> > Does my original maxim about perseverence still apply? Will I

> > eventually build shoulder strength? And if so, when ? Or in this

> > case, should I start weight training to supplement?

> > Advice would be welcomed,

> > Best regards, Annie

> > www.yogagoa.net

>

> its true that practise is designed to build strength and no other

> body building should be neccessary, but in the beginning when you

> have no upper body strength weights kind of give you a kick start

> allowing you to lift yourself into back bends and so forth...thats

> when you begin to build the strength and as you carry on practising

> you will find you no longer need the weight training.

> most people have some upper body strength to start off with

> espicially if you have a physical job or are used to other forms of

> physical exercise, but some of us never really use the muscles we are

> supposed to in everyday life due to our increasingly sedentary

> lifestyle, believe me weights will help, you im not talking body

> builder level, just some light shoulder/chest press and lat pulldown

> using 12-15 reps, this will tone and strengthen your muscles not

> build them up too big. then once you get a little stronger you can

> ditch them altogether as ashtanga is great weight bearing exercise.

> you could carry on as you are without the weights but may find it

> becomes frustrating and also painful, this in turn will make you

> dread your practise rather than look forward to it.

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