Yoga for Regular Guys: The Best Damn Workout on the Planet!

regulate your body temperature whether you’re sitting on the couch or doing Yoga for Regular Guys. And if you happen to be sweating your ass off doing the YRG workout, then you need to replace those lost fluids—and no, coffee, soda, and beer don’t count. In fact, any drink with sugar, caffeine, or alcohol actually dehydrates you. Now you know what causes that morning hangover!
    I like to drink at least a gallon or two of filtered or purified water per day. I have a water filter at home, but when I’m on the road, I always buy enough bottled water to keep me well hydrated. And trust me guys, air travel dries you out more than you can imagine, so drink as much bottled water as possible before, during, and after you fly.
    There is an added bonus to all this water business. When you drink plenty of water, you are also helping your body flush toxins and emulsify fat out of your system. So guys, your best bet is to keep it wet!
    I have been lucky enough to find a lot of services and products to help me change my lifestyle for the better. For the goods on this information, turn to the Resources section.

This is the first time DDP was awarded the World Championship title, in Tacoma, Washington, in 1999.

I N S P I R A T I O N ,
M O T I V A T I O N , A N D
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
    I have been calling myself the master of
motivation
,
inspiration
, and
stimulation
since the first time I stepped into the square circle back in 1988 as a wrestling manager. You see, back then I thought I was too old to start to wrestle. I was thirty-one at the time—what the hell was I thinking?
    Of those three words, I believe
inspiration
is the best. Why? Because inspiration comes from within each and every one of us. It comes from the inside out. I can motivate you all I want, but when I’m gone, the passionate and motivational words I used to fire you up will stay with you only as long as you can keep them in the forefront of your mind. When you are truly inspired, you can do anything.
    Take a look at Ted Evans, my favorite Regular Guy who does YRG. This guy truly inspires me. He’s a real man’s man! Ted first started doing yoga at the age of sixty-six. Earlier in his youth he crushed one of his vertebrae and damaged three of his discs. He kept active in the face of all his physical challenges and then, at the young age of sixty-six, made a decision to start doing yoga. Now to me, that’s pretty damn inspirational!

A YRG STORY OFINSPIRATION

    I was the first Regular Guy Ted ever saw do yoga, and I was no kid at the time; I was forty-three. We both worked out at the same gym, and over the period of a year, he watched my flexibility and strength increase month in and month out. One day he came up and asked me a few questions about exactly what I was doing. I explained the basics, and pretty much forgot about the incident.
    Flash forward to about three years later, when I called the Yoga-Doc and asked him if he wanted to be involved in the project I was calling “Yoga for Regular Guys.” The Yoga-Doc was all for it, even after I explained that his involvement in YRG might just make him the black sheep of the “serious” yoga crowd. That only made him laugh out loud. He said, “Hey, Dallas—as far as the hairy granola yoga folk are concerned, they already don’t like me because I’m the
yoga for jocks
guy. And as long as we get a few hundred thousand Regular Guys doing yoga, I’m in!”
    We worked tirelessly on developing both the YRG program and helping me develop as a YRG teacher. The funniest thing about all of this was the first time I ever taught the YRG workout in a group setting, I tag-teamed it with the Yoga-Doc during one of his weekly yoga classes. It was about a year ago, and I didn’t take much notice of anybody in the class because I was so preoccupied with how I was going to teach this thing. I had never taught a full class before. But the chemistry the Yoga-Doc and I had was unbelievable. It was like we had been doing it for years.
    Once we got into the flow of it, I looked to the back of the class and noticed Ted. I stopped right in the middle of the class while we were in a standing position and said, “Hey, Bro. Wow, you’ve really come a long way!” I found out that Ted had picked up with the Yoga-Doc’s class shortly after we had that conversation about yoga three years earlier.
    When we planned our photo shoot for this book, I asked the Yoga-Doc to make sure that we got Ted a plane ticket.