Fitness Friday Update



Unrelated but nice picture of Seattle for you all















I have been working out almost every day for the last month or so. I go on the treadmill first thing in the morning (5 AM...yuck) for 50-85 minutes (burning around 400-600 calories), depending on if I also have yoga that day or not. Some days it feels really easy and some days it is the last thing I want to do...but I try to do it anyway. I have really noticed improvements in how long and far I can run at a time - I started running 5 minutes at a time (in between fast walking and incline) and now I am up to 10 minute intervals. Which is impressive given that I may or may not be sleep-running at that ungodly hour. Haha.

Hot Power Vinyasa Yoga Class

I went to a new yoga class last night - it was a 60-minute hot (though only 95 degrees, not 105!) power vinyasa class.

Vinyasa means "flow", so basically you flow from one pose into the next in what is supposed to be graceful movement. I found it harder than regular hot yoga because you have to really know the poses in order to do them in quick succession correctly. Also, there was a lot of arm strength stuff (side plank, lots of pushup position into other poses, etc.) that was challenging for me too.

Hot Yoga for Dummies

In this new blog, I will will write about trying new things in many areas of my life. One of my newest adventures is yoga - hot yoga, in particular. It started with a LivingSocial coupon (so begin so many of my adventure stories...lol) to a yoga studio about 2.5 miles from my house. (Let me preface this story by saying I have never done yoga before, at all.)

Imagine that this is me...

I decided my first class should be...Yoga for Beginners (Level 1). I went to this one-hour class twice and I enjoyed it - it wasn't hard but trying to see how to get into the poses and not knowing what the heck I was doing was a little interesting. So I decided to try the hot yoga classes next (I have 20 classes total to use). This yoga studio offers 60 minute and 90 minute hot yoga classes throughout the week and on weekends. For my first time, I chose a 90 minute class. I thought if I did the 90 minute class, the 60 minute wouldn't be so bad. Or I would definitely be going to a lot more Beginner Yoga classes if I came close to death (or, I guess, a lot fewer if I did perish.)