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Why I Dislike Yoga Teachers

All of you yoga lovers out there, take no offense. I have nothing against yoga. If it works for you, it's great. It didn't for me. But that is an entirely different story. Right now I just want to rant about yoga teachers.

Every single one I've met (I can think of 3 right now) has been a condescending, self-righteous individual trying to tell me how yoga is so much better than anything else out there and refusing to acknowledge that there may be other--more effective for some people--ways to get/stay in shape.

If you are unable to acknowledge effective alternatives, you are stupid. That's it. Nothing worse than someone claiming their way is the one and only, for everyone. And I haven't met as many people teaching any other exercise/life style having this weird stupid belief than people teaching yoga.

Today, I went to my regular gym class--complete conditioning. It's a girly aerobics/weights workout, great cardio, some stretching, awesome stuff. But my instructor is pregnant, so we had a sub, who happened to be a yoga teacher. Before the class, I asked her if there was going to be any cardio (which should have tipped her off as to what I was looking for), she said, no cardio but some stretching, weights, abs, and butt. Fine, I've done pilates before, and I liked it a lot, so I was hoping maybe this would be similar. I have also done yoga before, and I really dislike it. I would never willingly do it again, ever. It doesn't work for me, and I do not enjoy it.

So, this instructor proceeds doing hatha yoga.

Oh, and in the beginning of the class, she claimed her accent was German and Polish...then why the hell did she use Russian words for when she did not know English words?

Some time into the class, she introduces us to this "special exercise makes your stomach good." Lie down on your back, put your legs up at 45 degree angle, hold for a count of 100. Well, genius, they do it in pilates. It's one of the most basic exercises called the hundred. Nice try.

The next special exercise? "Great for bra area, shoulders, sides." Also known as chest flies. Never seen this one before.

And my favorite! Now that she has used common non-yoga exercises, she proceeds to tell us about how weights and gym "make you look like man, I like woman figure. I never use weights, eat meat, steak, same weight 20 years."

And I am very happy for her, but no need to hate on the gym. Seriously, no need. I do not look like a man. I've tried yoga and I didn't like it. I love my cardio and weights, they make me feel and look good. Are you telling me something is wrong with me?

Maybe if she were teaching people who haven't done any kind of exercise before, this strategy would be perfect--show them special exercises and hate on the gym, and hope they enjoyed your class enough to do it again. But she's subbing for a regular class that incorporates cardio and weights, and people coming to it are coming because they like it, not because they are looking for an alternative.

What is it that makes it so difficult for yoga teachers to acknowledge that different people may respond differently to different exercise styles???

Why Drug Laws are Bad

Because drug research is worthless. You have academics who don't know shit about drugs writing crazy assertions about them. The following article is the dumbest things on Marijuana I've read in a long time.

Basically because East Coast weed sucks, people mail shit here all the time and someone lost a 33 pound shipment of weed. Here is the blurb from Planet Money's CHIEF DRUG CORRESPONDENT, this is the guy who is supposed to know the most about drugs:

"When undercover officers make wholesale buys, usually they pay about $1,000 a pound for medium-grade marijuana. So the 33 pounds that Anderson and Sloan received probably cost the local importer about $33,000. As a rule of thumb, a pound can be stretched into 360 $10 bags, meaning the shipment's retail value was nearly $120,000."

The above misinformation is exactly why drug laws are terrible because the people who write them don't know shit about drugs. I won't even point out that there are transportation costs as well as distribution costs associated with a sale that means he will definitely not net $120,000 even based on their erroneous numbers.

First off, why even mention the cost for medium grade weed? If someone is shipping weed by Fedex they are shipping quality weed. That's like saying, Pabst Blue Ribbon costs $5 a case, when you're estimating the cost of a case of Glen Livet (I realize that beer and scotch are different, but thats the disparity between quality weed from CA and the dog shit they have in DC).

The cost of quality weed in California is anywhere from $2500-5000 a pound direct from growers. How the fuck is this guy getting shit for $1000 a pound? At $1000 a pound and 16 ounces in a pound that means he's getting an ounce for $62.50. NOT BLOODY LIKELY. Obviously his information is based on DC fucking cops buy bullshit DC crap, which I'm not convinced is that cheap either. I feel like his information is from back in the day when dime bags cost a dime.

He goes on to claim that you can divide a pound into 360 bags. There are over 450 grams in pound so where the fuck does this 360 number come from? He claims its a rule of thumb, who's fucking thumb? He also claims that these 360 bags can be sold for $10 each. First, if you bag a pound into 360 bags you will have 1.25 gram bags. Where the fuck can you buy more than a gram for $10?

Full article available here

See if you can guess which one is my comment.