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My intent is yoga daily. When I used to run a lot my intent was daily. But because things happen I can’t always do that. So it works out to about 24-28 x a month. Just looking at my diary January was 26x and February is on track for missing only one day so far. Rather than a chore it’s a normal part of the day.

When I don’t do yoga I have a couple of backups which take less time. I can do contrology in about 30minutes. Yoga takes from 1 hr to 1hr 45 minutes or so depending on what I do. I rarely hit 1 hr 45. Most sessions are around 1hr 30. I also have a couple of dynamic strength forms that take less time.

The standard Bikram yoga practice is low enough intensity to do every day. Although I realize Bikram said daily meant 6 days a week. But since life is what it is I shoot for daily. He also said to do it daily until you can do everything at ninety percent or better. Well I have never hit ninety percent of everything to my satisfaction so I just keep doing it daily.

I did find that following the Bikram prescription more or less exactly became a chore over the years. Now I mix it up a little bit and never get bored. I also don’t work out so hard that I have hang over fatigue the next day. Something that I was very used to in younger days.

There is in Bikram dynamic isotonic and isometric strength work already built in and opportunities for more. Everyone always talks about stretching and never about strength. I have never understood that.
I think it’s because women are naturally flexible and since more of them do yoga that is emphasized. No judgement intended.

I do think for me anyway some kind of supplementary strength work is good. But I’m not so sure that yoga alone wouldn’t be adequate in that regard for health.

There are hundreds/thousands of work out schemes and ideas out there. Everyone just has to find the one that works for them.

Basically I do something every single day. The old time physical culturalists did that as well, I believe. This has evolved for me over many years and a lot of experience in different things. Strong is better than weak, flexible is better than inflexible and so on.

And of course we are all fighting the clock. Better to be as fit as possible.

It seems fairly clear, you are training for a marathon. Bikram probably tips you into over training. If not it’s about specificity of training. You are fit for running but not so fit for Bikram.

Take up Bikram after the marathon.

Just keep going. Unless there is some underlying problem, it’ll go away.

I don’t know. Maybe because it is billed as beginning yoga. Add a shoulder stand in the sequence if you want to.