Fitness Thread

[Road Guy]

If you want a relaxing yoga class, make sure it has "Hatha", "you", or "restorative" in the name or description. If it says "power" or "vinyasa", you can bet on it keeping your heart rate up and being pretty active with a variable level of difficulty depending on the specific class.

Sounds like you weren't doing a beginner class, RG... Was the two handed pose called crow pose? I can't do that, but I've also never really trained up to try it.

I think it was core power yoga?

At the end the instructor and some of the experts were trying out those high speed poses - We were just doing the normal stuff I guess, maybe I am just not that flexible.. yet!

 

[Supe]

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Since your axes aren't labeled, I will assume your "Y" axis is "number of bowel movements per week."

 

[Road Guy]

I set a goal to do some type of workout every day in May - So far I have done that and have 4 days to go! I've been alternating between upper / lower body at the gym, cardio, bike rides, etc.. It was the main reason I tried to add some of that weird (to me) stuff like yoga and the cycle bar, one day it rained and I just jump roped in the garage for around 40 minutes - the wife has been trying to do these "double unders" with her XF cult friends, I nailed one of those on like the 4th try  -  I was mainly trying to train the brain that it "needed" to work out and I believe for that part it worked.

For having an old mans body at 45 the daily pain in the morning stopped around the 2nd week

 

[leggo PE]

I think it was core power yoga?

At the end the instructor and some of the experts were trying out those high speed poses - We were just doing the normal stuff I guess, maybe I am just not that flexible.. yet!

Oh, Core Power Yoga at a Core Power Yoga specific studio? Did you use weights in the class?

I've only done a Core Power Class once, and it wasn't even an official one (I was a guinea pig for my friend who now teaches there). I remember doing a million vinyasanas! 

 

[Road Guy]

there were no weights, i think it was called hot fusion? I just remember being tired...

 

[csb]

Hit ninja gym for the first time since in a month and AUGH WHY DOES IT HURT SO MUCH TO SIT?! 

I'm out of shape. 

 

[Ble_PE]

Are you sure you didn't sit on a ninja star?

 

[kevo_55]

Don't fight with those ninjas csb!!

 

[akwooly]

I have determined running is worse on the body than strongman or powerlifting training.

 

[Road Guy]

yeah but its hard to run wrong, do a 70# American kettle bell swing wrong and you (I) wont walk upright for a few days

 

[akwooly]

i am pretty sure i run wrong.

 

[akwooly]

have you done swings(russian or american) with a 3 pood kb?  those are fun. i snatched one once and only once and never again.

 

[envirotex]

I started swimming.  4-5x/week for 30-45 minutes.  Much better than running...

 

[Dleg]

I have determined running is worse on the body than strongman or powerlifting training.

Yeah if you don't run at all for 6 months and then go try to beat a personal record on a 5k!

 

[akwooly]

Or no training runs since my last 5k a month ago and try to sprint a mile. 

 

[Master slacker]

I started swimming.  4-5x/week for 30-45 minutes.  Much better than running...

werd

edit: ToP!  w00t! :bananalama:

 

[csb]

I chunked up three pounds last week on my bike ride, but considering that I was coming off a lot of muscle loss from pneumonia, I'm okay with it. 

 

[Road Guy]

like blew 3lbs of chunks?  or gained 3lb? 

 

[csb]

like blew 3lbs of chunks?  or gained 3lb? 

Gained 3 pounds

 

[kevo_55]

3 lbs of muscle?