Ashtanga 6 Days a Week - too much?

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I hear what you mean by alignments. Actually, my injury occured

while doing the inverted push up out of downward dog in the opening

sun salutation. I wasn't warmed up and I pulled a muscle. It

stayed bad, went to my shoulder, and then he pain returned to my

bicep.

 

Being careful, I went to my Doctor, and he said it was okay to go

back, just to warm up good before doing anything too strenuous.

 

But since I lifted weights for years, I kind of got it ingrained

into my thinking to work out, then take off a day. Of course, that

is with weights. With a body weight, gymnastic exercise, I am

thinking 6 days may be okay.

 

The problem is, once I get into the Ashtanga for a while, I start

feeling so good after the workouts that I don't want to miss one.

 

So I was wondering if there are a lot of you out there in practice

successfully and without injury doing a six day a week, 1 1/2 hour a

day schedule?

 

The Ashtanga sequence is so diverse and brilliantly composed I found

I could do the same workout everyday without it becoming in the

least rote. What do you think? Thanks.