Fit in my 40s: 'a month of daily yoga made me impossible to live with'

The only possibility is to keep going; if you can get through the first three months, the sages say, you’ll do yoga for ever

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Arguably, if you did anything for a month, every day, for at least an hour, you would end up understanding it so well that you couldn’t help but love it. It’s the arranged-marriage school of exercise. But I don’t think this would have worked with, say, zumba. Hot yoga, however, is what I do now. I don’t even want to try anything else, unless it’s as well as this.

Some people end their 30-day challenge with a whole new muscle definition; I still look the same. I wouldn’t even say I’d extended my yoga skill set, though I did get my feet off the floor for the first time in a crow pose, which was about the most gymnastic thing that had ever happened to me. In the mirror, I looked like I was trying to crawl underneath a shopping trolley because I had dropped my quid.

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