If you want some decent music and a bit of pace to what you’re doing, this is for you.Īctually, I want to lose a lot of weight, build muscle and get a kick-arse cardio workout. There is grunting, loud counting and attitude. As for being a yoga person though… this isn’t your zen-like calm, staying in position for ages thinking about your chakras sort of yoga. You might not be bendy or fit when you start DDPY, but I guarantee once you’ve been going for a while you’ll be much bendier and fitter. There’s no being judged by folk who look their abs have been chiselled from marble – for the most part people leave any ego at the door and everyone is doing their thing and having fun (although sometimes that fun might come from heckling the instructor for making them do something challenging!) One of the things that really encouraged me when I first went did DDPY in a class environment was the sheer range of people taking part – people of all ages, abilities, shapes and sizes. Making the workout your own is encouraged – and in a class situation there’s no risk of being made to feel like you’re slacking, because everyone is adapting the positions in one way or another – including me while I’m teaching (I have a gammy right shoulder so tend to modify push ups by staying on my knees). All workouts can be modified to make them more or less challenging depending on how you’re feeling and where your body is at on any given day. Workouts can be done in bed or from a chair if you find standing a challenge or – at the other end of the scale – can involve the kind of high octane cardio that leaves you sweating and swearing. It’s completely adaptable to all levels of fitness.
In fact arguably, the most well-known person transformed by DDPY is this guy, Arthur Boorman.īut I’m not bendy. A lot of those wrestlers use DDPY to prolong their careers, but it’s not just for elite athletes.
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But the physical strength, power and flexibility professional wrestlers need to have to do what they do day in and day out is pretty epic. Now you don’t have to tell me wrestling is pre-determined (my Dad did, when I was eleven – I’m over it now, but it was a dark time). While he didn’t consider himself a yoga guy, DDPY was born when Page realised the power of combining traditional yoga positions with sports rehabilitation techniques and old-school calisthenics – a potent mix which saw him not only get back in the ring just six months later, but become world heavyweight champion aged 43.
While desperately trying to rehab it his then wife suggested he tried yoga. He was told his wrestling career was over after he ruptured his L4 and L5 discs.
But if you’ve not heard of DDPY before, or if your knowledge of yoga is all about the zen-like calm, here’s the key things you need to know…ĭDP Yoga was set up by Diamond Dallas Page (the DDP of the title), a professional wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer. I talk about DDP Yoga a lot – not just on this blog but also in real life (in fact especially in real life, to pretty much anyone who will listen – special apologies to Rob the Tesco Click and Collect man I get my shopping from every Saturday).
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