It is a movie I would highly recommend if you want to see first hand what DDP can do not only for the overweight and broken but for everyone, even the fit and healthy. Whilst Jake is there he has to have a hip reconstruction, which DDP then helps him recover from. He gets him off the alcohol and does the DDP Yoga with him. DDP brings him to his house to try and help him. He is overweight and is body is in ruins after all the damage he had done to it. My partner made me watch a movie on Netflix called ‘The Resurrection of Jake the Snake’ which is about an ex WWE wrestler that is in desperate need for help. Once they had done a few months of DDP Yoga, not only where they back to a healthy weight but there bodies were also almost back to brand new (well as brand new as an ex WWE wrestling body can be). They were not only overweight but there bodies were wrecked from all the wrestling that they used to do. He has had quite a few ex WWE wrestlers go through this with him and the transformation is quite amazing. He started doing yoga when he was in recovery from surgeries and realised that he could make it into his own version that is designed for weight loss and recovery of the body. It is founded by an ex WWE wrestler, Diamond Dallas Page (DDP). Now I know I haven’t explained what DDP Yoga is yet so let me do that now. This was very easy as it’s designed to just stretch out all your muscles and joints first thing in the morning. The Wakeup workout is a 10 minute one that you normally do when you first Wakeup, you go from doing some exercises on the bed to doing some on the mat, but we just did it all on the mat this time. It wasn’t too hard but it certainly had me sweating.
The Energy 2.0 is a 30 minute workout, which is one of the ones that is done a few times a week when you are doing the full pack. We did the Energy 2.0 and Wakeup workouts. So today I did my first proper session of DDP Yoga with my partner. He reckons the Sevens guys don't mind it, too, because "it's not like your mama's yoga" making it more bloke-friendly.Just a short blog about my first workout with DDP Yoga. He insists this is a "complete form of fitness" that's really effective.
And even though the love interest didn't last, his love of DDP Yoga lives on. He also likes the bloke DDP: Sean trained with him in America and admits at first it was intimidating learning from an almost 2m-high American pro-wrestler - especially when he was the dad of a girlfriend at the time. Sean says he can teach DDP Yoga anywhere - you don't need any special equipment. On YouTube you can see Americans raving about how they lost weight and fixed their bodies doing Yoga DDP workout videos. The exercises help with cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength and co-ordination, while also hitting your core and singeing fat. Or you could call it a version of old-school calisthenics - that's doing exercises and movements, with your body as resistance, without any equipment. Sean further explains that DDP Yoga is a slow-burn, dynamic resistance workout. This is also just one of the workout options in his fitness toolbox for rehab and recovery workouts for private clients. Sean says he can tailor the workout to suit individual clients, that's the beauty of it. Ultimately, I do DDP for 25 minutes, at which point this tiger says she's had enough. Sean tells me he gets his own heart rate up to 170bpm and sustains this during DDP Yoga for an hour - which, by the way, would be where my heart rate might be if I was running hard out. But I'm just engaging my muscles, trying to be still on the spot. This reveals my heart rate is up to 130bpm - which is as high as if I was jogging. Sean has proof I'm not slacking (besides my puppy-like whimpering): he has put a Gear Fit device on my wrist, that connects to a Samsung Galaxy S5 phone. Sean has me doing some interesting moves, too - like pretending to be tiger-like, and clawing my paws (hands, if you must) through clay (or rather through the air), to gripping my feet into the carpet. I guess my quads are not as solid as those of the Sevens boys, because they're pretty good at this, I'm told. But I liken it to my body shaking like it's in a mini earthquake. It's called isometric contraction, which elevates the heart rate. The trick is to engage, or switch on, every muscle I can and squeeze it for dear life, while doing yoga-style moves.