Well, I looked over the class schedule for the gym and saw that the yoga class on Tuesday falls right in line with heading there straight after my co-op time in my daughter's class. I attended it today and feel really good. I got in a build-up-a-sweat work-out that wasn't elliptical and recumbent bike. No idea of the calories burned... but I do know that I like working on flexibility, breathing, strength, endurance, and mental calm. I feel great!
Tomorrow will be another visit to the machines, and hopefully this method of changing it up will mean tomorrow I'll have plenty of energy for another long hard calorie burn. :D
I've always wanted to try yoga.
ReplyDeleteMike - You're certainly welcome to give it a try. I started with videos at home because I find it somewhat intimidating to be in a class and feel completely clueless. Since I'd already had a bit of exposure to some basic yoga stuff through my belly dance dvds (Rachel Brice more specifically), I didn't feel too freaked out at the idea of showing up randomly for the class today and it totally fit my schedule so I went in with a "What the hell" attitude. Some of the stuff I really couldn't do, but I feel like the instructor did some step by step progression through poses, and if she went somewhere with her body that I couldn't contort into, I basically just stayed in whatever pose I was able to maintain while she progressed into further reaches of balance, strength, and crazy flexibility. At one point it looked like she had her hands, flat palms down on the floor, elbows bent and right angles, fingertips pointing to the right, fact pointing forward legs extended out into space off to the left slightly balanced with a thigh resting on one of her elbows... I have no idea what it was called because the mic she was using kept spluttering and popping... but it was a sight to behold. That in itself made the buckets of sweat worth it. It's odd... just stretching and arching and flexing and stuff made me dump buckets of sweat. Seems like it was a good work-out because of that, but at the same time I came away feeling like I barely did anything at all.
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