Bikram Yoga Provides Toughest Workout Ever

Looking for a great workout? I strongly recommend a Bikram yoga class. It is easily one of the hardest workouts I have ever done.

After finishing the class, I was actually so tired I barely made it home. The hour-and-a-half classes take place in a swelteringly hot room (around 100 degrees) and consist of twenty-six different challenging postures. Bring a tall bottle of water to class with you — you’ll need it.

The specific series of postures are designed to warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons, in the order in which they should be stretched.

The founder of the worldwide Yoga College of India was Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury, born in Calcutta in 1946.

Did you know that Mr. Bikram practiced Yoga at least four to six hours every day at Ghosh’s College of Physical Education in Calcutta? Six hours a day! The hard work paid off since, at the age of thirteen, he won the National India Yoga Championship. Pretty impressive.

For more information about the Bikram Yoga and locations around the world, please visit their website. (Their main site is in Beverly Hills at Wilshire and Robertson — however, they are moving further south next month.)

Check out my video below of my painful but worthwhile experience.

Do you know of any other exercise regiments as intense as this? Let me know in the comments so I can put my body through even more pain once I’m done being so sore.