<p>Nice runs this weekend, MOWC and BB. Plenty of other good workouts in this group, too. Sabaray, did you do that 6.25 in 55 mins? Great job!</p>
<p>Rest day for me, so I’m glad to see that ya’ll are getting in the miles for me! House cleaning. Couldn’t ignore it any longer. Hiking tomorrow. Supposed to be 90 degrees, sunny, and humid. Really not New Hampshire weather.</p>
<p>Ha, Deborah, actually 65 minutes, but thank you! 5210K adds in a 5 minute warm up and a 5 minute cool down. I’m pretty happy with just being able to maintain a 5.5-6.0 speed for 55 minutes or heck, even run for that long!</p>
<p>I’m impressed, sabaray! I can’t do that at all. Maybe one day. </p>
<p>I am really digging this hot yoga (not bikram, just hot). But I also like pilates. Anyone else do both, or have a strong preference for one or the other?</p>
<p>Very cool, Sabaray. 10K race this fall?</p>
<p>I’ve done both and like Bikram better because I like the cardio component.</p>
<p>A few years ago a Bikram studio opened near me, so I went to try it. It had carpeting and smelled like stinky feet. I sat in there waiting for the class to begin and I was seriously about to throw up, so I left. What I go to now is CorePower Yoga, which is a chain. It’s hot and I drip sweat all over the place, but it’s clean. I’m focusing on their level 1 class to learn the poses and a yoga sculpt (with weights), but their level 2 class (which I have taken) is cardio. I like it because I’m not interested in a spiritual experience, just the workout.</p>
<p>I’ve done “yoga for athletes” because like PG, the spiritual stuff doesn’t really resonate with me. That said, I hate yoga and have literally cried during yoga poses due to the extreme discomfort, having to utilize my Lamaze breathing techniques (TMI but am a veteran of natural childbirth, so pain tolerance is pretty high) just to get through basic poses. Only to be told by the yogi, how crying is good and must mean I am evolved and releasing a block or some such.
Also hate Pilates. With a passion. Either boring or seriously uncomfortable. Often both. My trainer is a believer, though. Likes a lot of Pilates stuff for core, so we do it every. single. time.</p>
<p>Today was supposed to be a rest day. But I am really feeling like I need to tone my arms. So I did 3 sets of bench presses (65# bb, wimpy but I haven’t really benched in ages), 3 sets of bicep curls (17.5 #dbs) and 3 sets of tricep cable push downs, don’t recall the weight.
Most miraculously, I did these on my own. In my own workout room. Amazed myself.
Then Vitamin D therapy and floating in pool.</p>
<p>Stretch, strength, core.</p>
<p>Next up snack, to be followed in a while by snooze.</p>
<p>@CJane
Once a week, we do yoga before swim practice. The “spiritual” aspect is kind of ruined by the strong chlorine smell and the yelling diving coach, though.</p>
<p>LOl, sg! I could not do yoga - when we were supposed to “meditate”, I would close my eyes and think about the unfinished work projects I had to leave in my office/lab because I was rushing to my yoga class. :D</p>
<p>New to thread. My wife and I have done insanity and P90x. We are now doing a Hybrid of both. Tough workouts with unbelievable results. Lost 15 lbs and gained lean muscle. Also noticed my wife smiling at me more ;). Consistency is the key.</p>
<p>Welcome to the thread. Fifteen pounds is awesome. Sounds like 3 five-pound parties to me!</p>
<p>Welcome HappyDaddy! We celebrate any 5 pound loss with a party here!!</p>
<p>Another full week of heat and humidity ahead again. Reluctantly went out and cut the grass last night - about an hours worth of pushing and dripping! Then followed it up with a pathetic run - I could tell the moment I started that my legs just didn’t have it last night. Got 2 miles in though. Sounds like I’m whining but geez, 75+% humidity and 82 degrees at 9pm doesn’t = pleasant exercising conditions! A little sore today.</p>
<p>End of whine. :)</p>
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<p>That doesn’t sound good. Screw the yogi. Every yoga class I’ve been to, they are explicit about “if this doesn’t feel good to your body, feel free to try a modification – this isn’t a contest – or just do child’s pose or downward dog for a minute and catch up with us.”</p>
<p>I learned that I really had to get over myself in yoga! Every time I would sneak a peak at someone else to see how I compared, I would fall out of the pose! I’ve had some really good hot yoga instructors and one explained that some people are really bendy but might not be strong, and vice versa. He said it took him years to work into some of the poses since he wasn’t bendy at all. Some of the Bikram studios can be too intense and they yell at you. The Dallas one had lots of negative reviews. I never went but went to a non-Bikram competitor. The Nashville Bikram is just incredible and very supportive.</p>
<p>78 and humid in PA this morning. 5 miles on shaded Perkiomen Trail. Very nice but sweaty. Eating too much bad food here. Going home this afternoon. Yay.</p>
<p>Tried Yoga. Yoga was not for me. Tried Pilates. Pilates was not for me. I’m sure one of them would be good for the stretching/toning benefits but it was not enjoyable.</p>
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<p>That’s what I’ve read online about the Bikram studio near me. Not only do the reviews mention how awful it smells (I am serious in that I was starting to retch just from waiting in the room prior to the session beginning), but that you aren’t allowed to have a sip of water, you get yelled at if you have to take a breather from a pose, you absolutely aren’t allowed to leave the room even if you’re about ready to collapse, and that they just take themselves too seriously. No thanks. CorePower may be “corporate and the Man” but the teachers are friendly and approachable and encouraging.</p>
<p>Wow, that yoga sounds brutal. </p>
<p>Rain finally stopped. Got in 5.20 this a.m. It has rained so much that part of our street has literally caved in (huge sink hole) and the road is blocked off. It’s a pain to get out of the neighborhood in the car but its great for running…no cars… I have the road all to myself.</p>