Oh yoga. How I both love and hate you.
Last Wednesday you kicked my butt and you did the same today. Granted, it was a substitute instructor and she may be different from what I will experience in subsequent classes.
We've done some crazy moves....like side crow http://yoga.about.com/od/yogaposes/a/sidecrow.htm
Last Wednesday you kicked my butt and you did the same today. Granted, it was a substitute instructor and she may be different from what I will experience in subsequent classes.
We've done some crazy moves....like side crow http://yoga.about.com/od/yogaposes/a/sidecrow.htm
regular crow
or this crazy one today that I almost laughed out loud in the quiet room....
Anyway...(sigh) yoga. It did make me feel better looking up those poses to find links---they were all marked as advanced! sweet, since this was really my second yoga specific class. I've dabbled in the pilates category and feel like I'm definitely intermediate there...but yoga, hmmm....The balancing stuff is hard and I really wanted to do it more so for meditation practice and deep stretching/breathing. It does help with the stretching--I've noticed how tight my muscles are. This is probably a symptom of weight training again, but also the fact that I don't do deep stretching--I'm talking the kind when you are really trying to tough your chest to your kneecaps, full on splits.
In other news....nutrition wise, I had yogurt with Kashi Go Lean crunch for breakfast, a banana and chocolate milk before yoga, and a Pure Protein bar as a snack. My lunch and dinner were pretty good with the protein, but I didn't try to cram in a shake or anything. I wanted to eat my breakfast today and not drink it--especially after yoga class. It's way easier after weights with the metabolism revving and all.
So for the rest of the week, I'm going to evaluate tomorrow if I can make my program harder by lifting harder or if I need to up the reps. I need a weight lifting friend......it's just so hard without a spotter or an appropriate size weight belt. (yes, I've tried to wear them before and it looks oh so silly and is not supportive on my frame)
In other news....nutrition wise, I had yogurt with Kashi Go Lean crunch for breakfast, a banana and chocolate milk before yoga, and a Pure Protein bar as a snack. My lunch and dinner were pretty good with the protein, but I didn't try to cram in a shake or anything. I wanted to eat my breakfast today and not drink it--especially after yoga class. It's way easier after weights with the metabolism revving and all.
So for the rest of the week, I'm going to evaluate tomorrow if I can make my program harder by lifting harder or if I need to up the reps. I need a weight lifting friend......it's just so hard without a spotter or an appropriate size weight belt. (yes, I've tried to wear them before and it looks oh so silly and is not supportive on my frame)
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