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- 9.) Squats!
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- 2.) Eat Wild
- 6.) Sit Ups
- 5.) Push Ups!
- 1.) General Exercise
- 4.) Cardio, Unplugged
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Sunday Night Workout
I had another bad week last week. Work is killing me. Have I mentioned that there is a woman in my office who is literally losing her hair from stress?
In any event, I didn't have any time to workout until yesterday. Got in 40 HARD minutes on the Elliptical. Felt somewhat better, though not completely, as a result.
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Captain Crankypants Gets Back Down on the Mat
I have GOT to get a new career. There, I said it.
This a.m., my husband finally convinced me to get back down on the mat for twenty minutes to deal with the stress of where I sit right now in terms of work. It was mostly child's pose and down dog, but that didn't matter. I had twenty minutes by myself in a room with a closed door, and that felt pretty darn good.
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Short and Sweet
30 minutes on the elliptical pre-dinner party. Didn't help the stress, but it did help me justify dessert. :)
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Yogaglo at Home
60 minutes of restorative practice with Elena Brower. Yum. Yum. Yum.
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Just went for a walk around the office just so I could add minutes!
Five minutes here, 20 minutes at lunch, and I'm counting it!
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Sunday Night Workout
I had another bad week last week. Work is killing me. Have I mentioned that there is a woman in my office who is literally losing her hair from stress?
In any event, I didn't have any time to workout until yesterday. Got in 40 HARD minutes on the Elliptical. Felt somewhat better, though not completely, as a result.
Place:
Home
Workout
Captain Crankypants Gets Back Down on the Mat
I have GOT to get a new career. There, I said it.
This a.m., my husband finally convinced me to get back down on the mat for twenty minutes to deal with the stress of where I sit right now in terms of work. It was mostly child's pose and down dog, but that didn't matter. I had twenty minutes by myself in a room with a closed door, and that felt pretty darn good.
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Home
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Short and Sweet
30 minutes on the elliptical pre-dinner party. Didn't help the stress, but it did help me justify dessert. :)
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Home
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Yogaglo at Home
60 minutes of restorative practice with Elena Brower. Yum. Yum. Yum.
Place:
Home
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Just went for a walk around the office just so I could add minutes!
Five minutes here, 20 minutes at lunch, and I'm counting it!
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Yoga Retreat Day 4 (Final Day)
Today began and ended with the idea that at the end of your life, all that will matter is how well you loved-- not who said what, not who hurt who, not any grudge or lingering loss or anything-- ANYTHING-- other than how well you loved. We were asked to choose a person with whom we were presently in a state of challenge, place that person at the front of our mat energetically, and then ma
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Yoga Retreat Day 3
Another day with three hours of yoga and three hours of meditation. The theme of the day was releasing and throwing into the fire those things which you want to release. Yoga was arm balances and hip openers. Strangely, I was way sore before meditation and not at all sore afterwards.
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Yoga Retreat Day 2
Today was brutal and awesome. Three hour backbending practice this morning, three hours of meditation and philosophy this afternoon. Which I followed up with a massive long hot shower in the hopes of warding off the soreness that I know is sure to come tomorrow.
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Yoga Retreat Day 1
It didn't kick my ass but it was close. 45 minutes walking from my folks house to the studio plus an hour and a half of yoga and an hour and a half of meditation practice. Whoa.
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I'm off to a yoga retreat
for the next four days. I'm so excited I can hardly stand it-- first one I've done in two years.
Because I'll be doing at least three hours of yoga a day for the next four days, I took it easy this week so far and clocked only fifteen minutes on the mat last night (although lots of walks, with dogs and without). Can't wait to watch my MMM numbers jump!
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Von, I have been out of the loop for a few days and just now saw your post on SW2. So sorry to have missed the sale! I will be following along in spirit and will get around to taking a class with you at some point!
Posted in response to: von is the new msh
I love this post. Huzzah!
Posted in response to: Gandhi Would Never Count Calories in the Spin Class Line
Hate to say it, but I think I'm out too. I am a pretty hard core yogi, but the last time I did 35 sun salutes in one day was on my 35th birthday, and it nearly killed me. Doing 35 a day for 28 straight days is pure madness in my opinion, if not impossible.
Posted in response to: Salute the Sun!
I also can't believe I finished around 37th given that I was injured for the entire first month of the, er, Million Minute Month. Good thing it lasted. :)
Posted in response to: One Million: The Post Game Show
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted in response to: ONE MILLION!
Seriously, this was one of the best retreats I've ever been on. De-lish. Thanks S. XOXO
Posted in response to: The Beauty of Practice
Point taken, killer. I couldn't do what I did this weekend every day, that's for sure.
Posted in response to: The Final Sprinters!
My one contribution to this debate (along with my relatively low overall MMM count due to an injury all the way back in APRIL-- is that how long this effing thing has been going on????) is that it IS actually possible to do more than five hours of actual exercise a day. You just have to be on a yoga retreat. When I clocked 360 minutes of exercise a day this weekend, it was 100% legit.
(Which is not to say I am calling bullshit on anyone at all. I think we've probably got some people who do spend almost every waking minute that they're not at work exercising. More power to 'em.)
Posted in response to: The Final Sprinters!
That's superstar LA yoga teacher Kathryn Budig in those ads. She is awesome and her practice is ridiculous. I've got nothing whatsoever against her glowing body in these ads. Gorgeous.
Posted in response to: No More Naked Lady Ads in Yoga Journal
That's superstar LA yoga teacher Kathryn Budig in those ads. She is awesome and her practice is ridiculous. I've got nothing whatsoever against her glowing body in these ads. Gorgeous.
Posted in response to: No More Naked Lady Ads in Yoga Journal
That's superstar LA yoga teacher Kathryn Budig in those ads. She is awesome and her practice is ridiculous. I've got nothing whatsoever against her glowing body in these ads. Gorgeous.
Posted in response to: No More Naked Lady Ads in Yoga Journal
Have you thought about doing a yoga retreat or otherwise setting aside some time that is designated just and only for taking care of yourself (even just by getting a massage or something and saying "this is just for me and I deserve it")? Sometimes when I feel unmotivated and down what I really need is to just give myself the space to be quiet, do some healing and resting, and get back in touch with myself and then kickstarting a few days later is much easier.
Posted in response to: I need to find some motivation
LOL. OK, I have so been there. Re: the let them down lightly thing, back when I was single and doing a lot of online dating, this was my approach: when/if (it's a big if) they do the polite thing and send you a day after email saying, gee, I really had a great time with you, can we do that again some time, my response was always this:
Dear dude-who-speaks-to-the-dead/has-an-ex-wife-who-is-a-neo-nazi-skinhead/thinks-Rush-Limbaugh-is-god (I wish these weren't real life examples, but, well, it was a jungle out there for me):
It was great to meet you too (lying was my best policy here-- LOL). Unfortunately, I don't think we have enough in common to be a good fit for eachother. Best of luck in your search.
Take care,
Joesgirl
That usually did the trick for about 95% of the people. Of course, you might occasionally encounter the asshole who wants to argue with your assessment of compatibility-- those are the people you immediately block. :)
Posted in response to: I'm so New York
I love Susan Miller! And I too am a Taurus. Here comes that Cardinal Cross!
Posted in response to: Character Building & Circuit Training
I can't add minutes either. My bet is someone forgot to extend it past the end of July. :(
Posted in response to: why can't I add minutes? - is MMM done???
Holy crap, I may just have to do this. Sounds awesome.
Posted in response to: Flywheel and Lululemon planned my perfect summer day.
The yolk holds the bulk of the fat and cholesterol.
Posted in response to: MEH90X
I also just want to mention that David Kirsch, who has a two week body program that is also pretty intense, recommends cutting out dairy altogether, save for egg whites, when you're trying to lose weight because in general dairy (milk, yogurt, cheese, etc.) jacks your blood sugar via lactose (which is actually a sugar, believe it or not). Maintaining a consistent blood sugar helps you to lose weight (my dad is the perfect example of this-- he's always been fit, but he's genetically predisposed to diabetes, and when the doctor tweaked his already healthy diet to make sure his blood sugar was consistent throughout the day, he went from 196, where he had hovered for about ten years, to 182 practically overnight. And my stepmom was super-psyched at all his newly uncovered muscle definition at SIXTY EIGHT YEARS OLD-- LOL).
Anyway, it might be worth experimenting with what happens when you drop the yogurt and goat cheese and full blown eggs in favor of a breakfast of egg whites and snacks consisting of almonds or a small dose of protein (small can of tuna, etc.). I follow David Kirsch's dietary suggestions for several weeks when my metabolism seems to slow down (once a year or so) and I've put on a few pounds, and it works for me. Just a thought.
Posted in response to: MEH90X
Well, as someone who has practiced Anusara for close to ten years and is actually an Anusara-inspired teacher (though I really don't teach any more at all), I can tell you that we are trained to see the good in our students first and foremost. What is beautiful about their pose? What is working in terms of their alignment, attitude or action? Only then do we make suggestions as to how to better align the student.
Personally, however, I have found it extremely difficult to see the good in this article. I am a long-time Times reader and I devour the magazine every Sunday, but in my humble opinion the article was nothing short of a hatchet job. What this yoga does for people, by teaching them that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with them, and that by aligning the body, mind and heart, you align with your highest good off the mat as well, is nothing short of extraordinary.
I am not one to cut people much slack in general and have little patience for diva behavior, and I can tell you this: John is genuinely one of the kindest and most generous people I have ever met. His goals for Anusara and yoga in general are the goals of a path of service. Calling him the Yoga Mogul, and accusing him of being in it for the money, is so far off base it's almost laughable (e.g., where else would a CEO who makes roughly $100,000 a year be accused of being amorally-in-it-for-the-money?! I mean, PLEASE. Why aren't we having that conversation about folks like, say, Tony Hayward???). And my experience of Anusara yoga in general has been that it is about the empowerment of the individual and the community, not about the empowerment/enrichment of John Friend. John is emphatically not my guru. I respect what he has to offer. He is a tremendously gifted teacher. But what I have learned from Anusara yoga, and the spiritual traditions with which it aligns, is the the only guru I need is myself.
The yoga blogs have been on fire about this article, as have the Facebook status updates of all of those of us who teach or practice Anusara. Many, many people feel that this article was more than a little unfair, and more than a little twisted in the direction of the salacious for absolutely no explicable reason other than to make the article more marketable. My big sadness about it personally is that it stands to reason that the article itself, with all of its biases and untruths and misleading characterizations, may turn some people who have yet to experience Anusara away from a practice that honestly makes the world (yours individually, and the world in general) a better place. Whatever Mimi Schwartz was up to with this article certainly wasn't that.
Posted in response to: The John Friend/New York Times Kerfuffle
This is something yoga teachers have discussed for years, in that watching your students fires your muscles to some extent (albeit not the full extent) as doing the poses yourself. It's the reason, I believe, why it's possible to demo an advanced pose in the middle of class even if you haven't done the warmup yourself. Cool as hell.
Posted in response to: Did You Know You Can Think Yourself Fit?!?!
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on 9 years 45 weeks ago by joesgirl