I'm 21 and I teach yoga.
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That's impressive. The youngest teacher I've known was 37. My current teacher is 71. You must have started at a young age!
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do yoga 3 hours every 2 days and thats how i got real flexible
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Don't worry most of your friends are doing the same thing. Your teacher used to kiss when he was at your age. So, take easy.
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I started when I was 28.At the time i was smoking,drinking and over weight,I knew a little about the honor respect thing but never put it into perspective.Started in Tae Kwon Do made it to second degree black belt before switching to Hapkido  earned a third in Hapkido.In the ten years I've been in the M A people would always ask me if I ever used it I would always laugh and say no I never need to because I have been taught to keep myself away from the things and places that would give me a reason to use it.And I think back to when I first started and ask myself if I hadn't taken Martial Arts were would I be.And my answer would probably be in jail or dead.So Martial Arts has given me a life that has been better than I would have had.Had I not joined.All my friends and family agree that it has turned my life around.
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try "YOGA" it will def help you.
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Never say that.  If you do, when your 40, your going to wonder why you didn't go when you were 25.  I'm  22 and I just started last year.  I enrolled in my local community college and I take evening and weekend classes. I found that there are      people of all ages (and I do mean all) starting over.  In my Anatomy class, theres a guy that looks every bit of 60. If your thinking about going back to school please go.  it will benefit you in so many ways. don't ever think its too late.  My first day i was so nervous because I thought I was going to be surronded by a bunch of teenagers (even though it wasn't that long ago for me) but it really wasn't.  Some of my classmates have kids my age.
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Ur joking, right? As IF ur overweight, c'mon! Don't be a muppet. Yoga has dodgy spiritual roots, but pilates is quite good.
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I highly recommend doing yoga.
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I'm 43 so I'm well out of the frame.
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I am 43 and will finish my secondary ed teaching degree in Dec.  I was an EMT, then did a dozen years as a corrections officer.  I, too, had to face the age factor--having to deal with inmates would have come to an end sooner or later.\nI am student teaching in an urban alternative school.  I love it.\nI would suggest that you try to arrange to observe in a classroom if possible.  Many people our age have memories of what school was like in their day.  Much has changed.  \nDon't limit yourself to health education.  Personally, I will be teaching English.
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Absolutely! I'm overweight also and have found Yoga to be an excellent workout. It works on your muscles and helps you to tone them very quickly. It's much better for us due to less stress on the joints in our bodies. It's fairly low impact, but you still get a great workout!!!! You'll love it!
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It not your age. Its your physical condition and skill in the martial arts. If you are healthy and skilled go for it.
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I started Ishinru karate at age 9 and stopped at 14.  I feel it's never too early, especially if children are being taught the respect and discipline aspects which goes hand-in-hand with karate.  Just make sure you don't teach your wife, or you could really have a heck of a fight on your hands, LOL.
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Yoga is a great way to work on flexibility.  And as yoga is rather popular these days, it shouldn't be too difficult to find a yoga class in your area.
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I am 36 and this is my eighth year teaching.  The first 1-3 years are tricky because you have to figure out how to NOT spend 2-3 hours after the fact grading papers.  It took me about 2 years to figure out what works for me and what doesn't.  I spend a lot of time around positive people who love their jobs and who are willing to share and receive new ideas.  I keep a binder of ideas, good and terrible, to help me keep from making mistakes over and over.  As far as the pay goes...yeah, I'm underpaid.  But you know what?  I work 180 days a year from 7:30-3:30.  I am out of school when my child is out of school.  I do something everyone of those 180 days a year that really matters.  Talk to people who love their jobs and see if they say things that sound appealing to you.  Truth is...nobody ever decided to be a teacher because the pay is awesome or because it is easy as pie.  Folks who love teaching either feel called to do it, love kids, enjoy the opportunity to do something different in the summer (I got my real estate license and sell at my will), etc.  If you have a deep feeling that it isn't the right thing for you, move on.  There are children who deserve a teacher who wants to be there and who feel good about their work.
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I am a conscientious but nondenominational exerciser, and coming to Bikram (a.k.a. "Hot") Yoga began more as a scheduling convenience than devotion to its unvarying regimen of 26 poses (asanas), each performed twice and held for what can seem like forever over the course of the nearly two-hour class. \n\nYoga comes in almost as many guises as there are yoga instructors, but most classes build on the same basic foundation of poses performed sitting, standing and lying down. Although some, like the Sun Salutation, consist of a progression of steps, more often the goal is to work gradually toward a single ideal shape: the bow, the triangle, the cobra. My needs are simple: I want supervised, intensive stretching, and every yoga class I've ever attended offers at least that. \n\nThe truth is, I hated this Bikram class when I started. At first I returned only because I was desperate — the victim of a muscle-kinking bout of business travel (cramped airline seats and strange beds). Our teacher, Leah Weisman, seemed to talk incessantly. The room was always full, from 30 to 50 people. And the space was intentionally overheated. \n\nTrue Hot Yoga requires a room temperature as high as 105°F, supposedly so muscles warm up quickly and stretch more easily. This gym's drafty old studio achieves only Balmy Yoga — about 81°F — which is just as well. I've experienced optimal Bikram temperatures just once, and frankly, that's way too much bodily fluid shared and dripped and flicked around among a bunch of people who know one another in anything less than a biblical fashion. \n\nBut the thing I hated most about the class was that at the very end, while everyone was resting for a few minutes in the stillness of Shavasana, the corpse pose (designed to quiet the mind), Leah broke into song. Classroom scuttlebutt is that she has been known to sing On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever, but I've only heard her sing verses from New Age-y folk tunes that mention planets spinning around the sun and the Earth Mother calling her children home. \n\nWhy torture myself so? Simple: love triumphs over hate. As it turns out, Leah is an excellent teacher. Week after week she goes through the same routine without ever falling into autopilot. She is very "present in the moment," as she might describe it. Leah offers cautions about overexertion, suggestions on how to do each pose at various levels of challenge, and great good humor. Last week she talked about a meditation seminar she had attended and called the impromptu lecture her "sermon on the mat." \n\nAs a gasping heater blows lukewarm air around the room, she intersperses practical instruction ("Pull up your quads as you pull down your hamstrings") with abstract concepts ("Remember, you're burning new neurological pathways") that I take or leave, depending on my mood. \n\nLeah wanders among the students, propelling the class forward even as she stops to adjust an arm angle here or perform a thyroid-massaging chin tuck there. She urges noncompetition, with oneself ("However you do the posture today is how you should do the posture") and with others ("How can you compare yourself to your neighbor? You don't have the same body!"). Her monologue becomes a mantra, returning my oft-wandering focus back to the pose I'm attempting. Where is my center of balance? Can I feel my spine stretch if I imagine my head and tailbone pulling in opposite directions? How does my alignment shift when I turn my foot three degrees to the right? \n\nSome people criticize Bikram for being too arduous, but as with all yoga, much of the responsibility falls to the individual. I welcome this opportunity to eschew faster, higher and stronger in favor of deeper. In this regard, the simplicity of Bikram's poses is one more way to avoid being distracted from myself. \n\nTo spend this much time slowly and gently stretching is a luxu
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Offcourse you are not too old. Firstly 18 or 19 is not too far off from 21. I am 22 and I have friends who are 20 so it's cool...u'd find some really mature 18, 19 yr olds out there. And secondly its never too late to strat a new degree...I had a supervisor who finished her PhD, worked for 2 years and then Sat a Medicine test and got in and now she is studying medicine at the age of 29 with a bunch of 23, 24 year olds...so it's cool don't worry! and good luck.