threadwalker | Fitness blah-g

Recap:
Week of Oct 22: Excellent. (Disneyland)
Week of October 29: wretched. No work outs; solo mom all week while hubby went to work early and came home post 10 pm except for trick-or-treating.

New insight: Apparently when my body is slugging, my mind and will power are slugging. I have noticed that when I start out my day "on track", I tend to stay on track. But if I start out with a 'woe unto me, I need a scone' outlook, it tends to go downhill. Plus I earned 5 lb to show for it. Bugger! The pizza, ice cream, pasta, and candy menu is not geared for fitness.

Sunday:
40 min hill run on Treadmill. HR = 155bpm+
20 min bike ride HR = 140 bpm +
800 cal. total

Monday: Yoga
I am excessivley not-stretchy, I rarely stretch, and stretching is key to avoiding injury in sports. So I need to stretch more. Today I took a Yoga class at lunch hoping for either "core strengthing from hell" class or "super stretchy class from hell". It started out spiritual (boo!) but quickly moved into a joint twisting, hip-stretching class from hell. We worked on our hips and I learned how to twist my bone in socket and release something or other. It's creepy and I'm not sure I actually did it right; sometimes I felt it and sometimes I felt like nothing moved. At the end of class I actually managed to (more or less) turn my foot out and extend my leg behind my shoulder and over my head. I wasn't sure what the point of the exercise was, but I shocked myself by doing it. The teacher seemed pleased and the gal next to me had big eyes when she saw me and she said "good job". Very surprising since I can't bend forward and touch my hands to the ground w/o bending my knees. Who knew I had one really good stretch in me! My hamstrings are unhappy with me... and I actually saw them up close and personal for the first time ever. I squinted and sent "forgive me for doing this to you" thoughts at them while I was also noting that I'm finally getting some definition back there. It's probably only be noticable when I have my leg hooked over my shoulder and my foot extended over my head, which is hysterical to me. But it was nice to see that they could be more than fish-belly white blobs and that all this stair-master, running and weight lifting was actually doing something.

I wobbled the 2 blocks back to work and continued to wobble to my desk deep in the plant. Sitting with my legs crossed right now is a VERY good thing.

Operation: discover Yoga was a success. Going to go again next week.

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Yay you for getting back on track!

I also find that if I trip up in the middle of the day the rest of the day can go downhill fast if I'm not careful. (arguing with my child will send me running for chocolate EVERY time...)

I've thought about trying Yoga. We even have a studio that's not too far away. You'll have to let me know how future classes go. I might have to get myself out of bed early to try this thing.

I hear (from others) that some yoga classes are more about meditation and some are more about the physical stretchy part. I would say my class was 20% spirituality and 80% groovy stretches.

Moving slow today. I'm achey in the hip-butt-hamstring area and I think it's from the yoga. I'm also sore in the side zone, below the ribs. I think this was from the "leg over shoulder" trick when at one point, with leg hooked over shoulder but the foot is not yet extended, we balanced on one buttock, lifted and rotated the other off the floor and behind us, then breathed out and arched side-ways a bit to stretch the ribs and extend the foot.

Yay for foot upside da' head!
Thats hella impressive!

I wish there was a mirror because I have no idea how close to 'spot on' I was. The aftermath has been surprising. It's not my obliques, but the ab area in my "true side" right over my hip bones are achey. I found new muscles in my lower back that are now achey. These are never-before-felt aches. Jury is out whether they are achey from a good work out or because I was a smidge away from hurting myself. We'll see what happens next time I use them. I have this mental image of explaining to my coworkers and friends how I pulled the side torso one, "well, I took this yoga class and then I was doing side-crunches and now I can't bend to the side." Oh yeah. That would be great. Worth quite a few chuckles for everyone else.

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Yay yoga!

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