Yoga for Regular Guys: The Best Damn Workout on the Planet!

wall on the top of the first cage ceiling. Then, we would fight around the second cage level until we started up for the third, which is where the world championship title belt was located.
    At the time I was describing this to Jeff, he was standing on the third level looking down at me. I was on the second level, looking up and laying out the stunt. You have to understand, we had never done a match like this before—no one had! So you can understand that Jeff was a little apprehensive. Jeff asked, “What do we do after the wall drops down? Where do we think we should go from there?”
    I looked up and answered, “Well Bro, we just—” and I turned to show him what would be a good next move. As I turned around, I fell through the rectangular hole in the floor of the second cage. My right leg dropped a hundred miles an hour through that hole and I caught my right shoulder on the opposite side of the hole. Jeff looked down in disbelief and asked if I was all right, and I honestly didn’t know. I felt a jolt go through my body like I had never felt before. I was hanging in this hole, motionless, and for a few moments, I thought I might havebroken my neck. As Jeff asked me again if I was all right, I started to move my fingers and toes, and realized that I was all right—but not really. So I began to lower myself down to the floor.

    Back in 1999 while filming
Ready to Rumble
, DDP had to stick his leg on the top rope to get any kind of stretch.
    The boys took me back to the hotel and put me in bed, where I immediately started to ice my body. I took a couple of painkillers and passed out around 11 PM . At 5 AM I woke up, but I literally couldn’t move. I had to go to the bathroom, but I couldn’t move. So I fell on the ground and crawled on my stomach to the bathroom. When I pulled myself back in bed, I called Janie Engel, the Radar O’Reilly of WCW, and told her that I needed Dr. Ken West to come out and fix me, or there would be
no main event
for this PPV.
    Through the grace of God, somehow I got a hold of Doc West in Atlanta and he flew straight out to save me. A couple of the boys literally carried me to my car and then into the Kemper Arena. The doc got there at 2:30 PM and worked on me for more than five hours. I’m telling you, I couldn’t walk at 2:30 PM , but if you ever get a chance to see that match, you would never know just how hurt I was. The doc worked on me after the match and then again the next morning. He got me to the point where I was also able to make it to Nitro that Monday night.
    A Closer Look at Chiropractors and Kinesiologists
    Now, I’ve been treated by chiropractors of all different types for many years, and some of my closest friends are chiropractors. Hell, even my brother, Rory, is a doctor of chiropractic. But please understand that not all “bone docs” are the same. So my best advice to everyone is to make friends with a chiropractor who is a sports extremity specialist, or even better,an applied kinesiologist, like Doc West and the Yoga-Doc. These guys have gone above and beyond their traditional chiropractic education to become the true body mechanics that we need to keep us tuned up, rotated, and balanced for the next big race. The Yoga-Doc will tell you a little about what makes each one different, but the bottom line is, these guys help keep you on top of your game. They are not only important when you take some rough bumps in life, they should also be key players in your new preventative maintenance program.
    YOGA-DOC SAYS …
    Chiropractic is one of the most cost-effective treatments for back pain, neck pain, headaches, whiplash injuries, and carpal tunnel syndrome, but it is also a well-known fact that chiropractic care is one of the best ways to assure that your musculo-skeletal system is working at its optimal level of performance. Chiropractors adjust misaligned joints in the spine and extremities to restore lost function, decrease muscle spasms, and re-establish proper blood flow and nerve flow to each area of the body. The positive effects of chiropractic adjustments are decreased pain and the ability to use your body to its maximum capability, without structural impediment.
    As DDP stated, all chiropractors are not created equal, so here’s the inside info on what to look for in a good doctor of chiropractic:
    First and foremost, you will want to steer clear of any chiropractor wearing a white lab coat—a dead giveaway that the chiropractor is insecure