Thanks for taking the time to check out our blog. Figure we will throw out some background and give you an idea of what is going on here.
While doing the live DDPYoga Youtube workout a week or so ago, my brother and I decided to take the DDPYoga challenge and start a blog of our own. If you don't know what the DDPYoga Challenge is, please head on over to ddpyogachallenge.com , create a blog, and be a part of it. Top prize is $15,000 but the participation prize is worth even more then that. What's the participation prize, you ask? Reaping benefits of healthy living. Trust me it's a prize you want and a prize you are guaranteed by making DDPYoga a part of your daily life. Please follow us on our journey, and let us know about your own so we can follow you. It's a challenge not a competition and we are all winners on Team DDP.
Now for some Mink brothers history. We grew up in a small town called Farmersville in Lancaster PA. We were both wrestling fans as kids, trading Elbow Drops for DDT's and Boston Crabs for Figure Fours whenever the parents were out of earshot. We really did beat the hell out of each other and not get along great as kids. In our adult lives, however, we have a relationship that all parents hope their children have with each other. Lots of respect, honesty, and (sometimes tough) love here. About 2 years ago life had backed both of us into very different corners, and we decided to combine our efforts and get each other through our respective situations. Without boring you with the "nitty gritty", I'll say that our sob stories are similar to ones everyone has heard before. Divorce, Loss of job, Lack of work, Threatened Foreclosure, Staying Strong For/Around Kids, etc... Life is hard for everyone and we are no exception. So I moved in with Max and his 2 kids in July of 2011 and we got to work getting ourselves on track. And I have to say that it is working. DDP calls it "Living Life At 90%", and it is a mentality endorsed by the Mink brothers. If we stick to our gameplan as we have been, it's still going to be 2 or 3 years of hard work before we will feel like we are "out of the rough". However, we have found the joy in the journey and hope that we can share this very enjoyable and effective mentality with anyone following our blog.
Now for our DDP Yoga history. One night I saw the Arthur video shared on Facebook, by my former 3rd grade teacher, and that is pretty much how it started. Ended up google searching for next hour, it was right when Jake The Snake was joining the Accountability Crib. I remember that specifically because I was one of Jake The Snake's first twenty Twitter followers. Max has 2 back surgeries in his rearview mirror, I'll let him blog the details on that, and has always struggled in the winters with some severe stiffness and pain. I was developing a terrible piano players hunch and have always been stiff as a board. There is a list of the motivations that started us-Arthur, Jake The Snake Roberts, Max's back pain, and my awful posture. Since we discovered DDP, Max has benefitted greatly from the Wakeup sessions and has been sporadically adding in an afternoon or evening session, often with one or both of his kids! His back pain has reached a level of manageability he never attained with meds or any other stretching programs. I have been doing 5-6 sessions a week since mid December, and have been bugging Max(and really-anyone else who will listen) to join me in that routine. I joined up on TeamDDP and have been keeping a workout journal over there. If you are a part of TeamDDP, send me a friend request at http://www.teamddpyoga.com/profile/MichaelPaulMink
Our goals are still a bit general at the moment:
-to inspire each other to be the best we can be
-to see continued flexibilty improvement
-I guess we should get a tailor's tape and a scale so we can take measurements and make some more specific goals
-stay positive throughout
-we are going to be the best we can be
Think Inspiration
Think DDPYoga
Think Mink
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