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DDP goes YRG to help himself, others - 07/05/2008 - MiamiHerald.com

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DDP goes YRG to help himself, others
BY JIM VARSALLONE These days don't use the 'y' word around Diamond Dallas Page. YRGWorkout is going beyond yoga. Oops, I said it. Seriously, Page Falkinburg took a concept which helped him recover from a serious back injury and placed his stamp on it, creating something different -- Yoga for Regular Guys/Gals -- YRG. With someone like DDP leading the way, it's sure to have positive results. Hey, DDP is 52, and he looks and feels great. He wrote on the YRGWorkout.com website: 'Most serious yogis are more about `namaste,' a spiritual greeting that means 'I honor the divine light within you,' but yoga for regular guys is a little more T&A -Tone and Attitude. Yes, Tone and Attitude. What else would I be thinking? 'The yoga I'm talking about is not a religion. We won't be meditating or chanting, `Ooommm,' and no one is going to be asked to put on a pair of footie pajamas. It's all about the workout and getting back to where you need to be with your health and fitness. YRG will challenge you, get you in great shape and chill you out all at the same time. In fact, if I were allowed to do only one type of exercise for the rest of my life, I swear to God, I would choose yoga because of its broad range of benefits. ``We've taken yoga to a whole new level. YRG is the perfect fusion of old-school calisthenics and core stability training, along with the hot new concept of slow motion isometric strength training. ``We've taken a few time-tested calisthenics, like push-ups and squats, and we've turned up the heat by slowing them down into a slow-motion burn. This combination will add strength and endurance to anything you do. We will incorporate the isometric aspect into YRG by teaching you how to engage your muscles in every position for the entirety of the workout. ``You will be training your core from start to finish, and we've added some super core strength exercises, if you're up for the challenge. Power yoga is our base, which is where this entire workout comes from. We've just modified it to make YRG more guy-friendly. ``Yoga exercise works a lot like chiropractic and massage therapy. They all increase blood flow and nerve flow to every part of your body. So all of those locked-up and closed off areas will be receiving more oxygen and healing life force than they probably had since you were a kid. ``Yoga releases enough tension in your body that it can make almost any therapeutic treatment, such as chiropractic care or massage, much more effective. I still find myself amazed at what my body is capable of doing now, after all I've put it through. ``For instance, you may not believe this, but I've written this entire introduction while standing on my head. Well, that may be stretching it, but believe me when I say that yoga not only allowed me to recover quickly,

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it has been proven helpful in preventing injuries as well.'' When DDP puts his mind, body and heart into something, he can do wonders. YRGWorkout is his cause. He has helped former AWA announcer Lee Marshall, Georgia Tech football players and multi-time Pro Bowl football player Derrick Brooks along with a host of regular guys including friend Larry Smokey Genta. At age 35, Page defied the odds by not only starting a career in pro wrestling but eventually becoming a world champion and an international star. Good God, from Badd Company and the Diamond Exchange to DDP, Self High Five and Bang, it's a wonder what more this man can do. Now, he is helping others, saving lives with a unique workout regimen. Weight loss, strength, flexibility, stress relief, lower blood pressure, better eating, happiness and self-esteem shape YRG. It's a lifestyle, a mindset, an attitude. YRG really is yoga for regular guys and gals. ``We don't call it yoga. We call it YRG.'' DDP and Dr. Craig S. Aaron, a holistic sports chiropractor and applied kinesiologist, created a new exercise program by combining traditional yoga positions with old-school calisthenics, core strengthening exercises and slow motion isometric muscle activation. It's a workout which increases strength, endurance, flexibility, mental clarity while reducing stress in the mind and the joints. YRG workouts can even help strengthen and rehabilitate those abused joints, burn fat and increase cardiovascular capacity. In order to obtain the health and fitness benefits of YRG, a normal person would need to do 20-40 minutes of cardio (three to four times per week), lift weights for 45-60 minutes (three times per week) and stretch for at least 10 minutes per workout. YRG delivers the goods in just three to four workouts per week. Choose which of the three easy to follow workouts based on ability and available time. All that without a gym membership. DDP said: ``I thought no pain, no gain. ``Wrong. ``YRG and eating properly, the food plans I put people on, you have to have a real discipline. Eliminating carbohydrates is part of it, eating right.'' Healthy eating can taste good. ''My brother got me into organic juicing, and I'm eating cleaner and cleaner -- positive in, positive out,'' DDP said. ``I still can eat steak and pizza, but I want to feel great, too. I'm 52. I can put my foot over my head, and I feel great.'' Page noted many athletes don't know what should be their heart rate.

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He added: ``I've learned so much from the beginning. Withing the first three weeks I started yoga, I added weights and isometrics and dynamic resistance. It's been 10 years now.'' DDP, a fan of HBK, would like to help the Showstopper with dynamic tension via the program. ''Mr. Kennedy and Randy Orton asked me for the program,'' DDP said. ``I don't know if they are using it, but I sent it to them.'' DDP understands pro wrestling, reaching big heights in the business. ``What I did in wrestling was so cool, but this is the coolest thing I've ever done. I'm changing people's lives. In three years, I think this will dwarf what I did in wrestling.'' The YRGWorkout website depicts an interesting first person account with the first person of late bloomers in pro wrestling lore, DDP. The former CWF, AWA, WCW and WWE talent said on the website: 'Ask a regular guy if he does yoga, and he'll probably say, `I wouldn't be caught dead doing that crap. It's for girls.' ``I know, because that was my exact response, when I was first introduced to yoga six years ago. If at any point in my life someone told me that I'd be writing a book about the benefits of yoga, I would have said, `I'm sorry. You must have me confused with another 6-4, 235-pound pro wrestler who beats people up with steel folding chairs. ``So whatever made me, DDP, try yoga? ``Well, at the age of 42, the doctors said my professional wrestling career was over. I was on the top of the world at that time, in one main event after the other, but, in 1998, I ruptured my L4/L5 disc so badly that I lost just about all flexibility in my lower back. ``I could barely bend over, never mind wrestle. You can say what you want about professional wrestling, but when it comes to getting bounced around in the ring, you can't fake gravity. ``I remember that night like it was last night. I was battling the nWo (new World order), and my opponent was Kevin Nash (6-10, 335 pounds). The problem with facing the nWo was, you didn't just face one of them. You faced all of them. Near the end of the match, Scott Hall (6-6, 285) rolled into the ring and blasted me with the World Championship Wrestling title belt. Then Kevin picked me up on his shoulders like I was a child and power-bombed me flat down on my back for the win. ``When I hit the mat, my body jackknifed, and it felt like my spine had broken in half. Nash didn't mean to hurt me; it's not like we were playing checkers out there. He actually laid me out as flat as he ever had, but this time, it hurt like hell. It wasn't just that fall. It was an accumulation of all the falls I had taken in the ring over the years, like the one I just described, along with years of getting splattered by guitars, steel chairs and garbage cans. That finally caught up with me. ``You see, even though most athletes retire in their mid-to-late 30s, I didn't get into the ring until I was 35, and at 42, I was just hitting my stride. This regular guy was pretty bummed out. ``One day, while I was laid up in bed with my back injury, I noticed my wife, Kimberly, coming upstairs from one of her workouts. She was absolutely soaked in sweat. When she told me she was practicing yoga, I thought for sure she was pulling my leg, but she insisted that yoga sessions offered her a great physical workout and also simply made her feel rejuvenated. She was absolutely certain that yoga could help me rehabilitate my back, and she asked me to start practicing with her.

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``Aside from the obvious worry of my buddies finding out, I was off looking like Grasshopper in Kung Fu. I was concerned that yoga could worsen my condition. However, Kimberly convinced me that, because I was injured, I could work at my own pace. So my attorney sent over a confidentiality agreement, which Kimberly signed, and I decided to give it a shot.'' DDP, a former nightclub honcho, manager and wrestler, knows his wrestling roots helped lead to this, and the rest is history. ``If it wasn't for Dusty Rhodes, there would have been no Diamond Dallas Page.'' There is a Dusty Rhodes and a Diamond Dallas Page and a YRG. • DDP penned Positively Page with friend Larry Smokey Genta and Yoga for Regular Guys: The Best Damn Workout on the Planet with Dr. Craig S. Aaron. • DDP is currently working with actor/singer John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard, Smallville) on Collier & Company 2: High Octane, the sequel to 2007's smash-hit family adventure Collier & Company: Hot Pursuit. • Visit YRGWorkout.com.

© 2008 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved. http://www.miamiherald.com

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