MENA diet/exercise thread

[jpaula 20]

Ok, I am not on a diet, but I do have an exercise related question and this crowd, disciplined as you are, seems a good one to ask.

Anyone do yoga? I have for years (but I still suck) and love it. I had a class I really liked but I keep missing it due to an ever changing schedule. Now I am looking for a good yoga podcast so I can do it at home. Anyone have one they like? I'm up for any suggestions, but prefer Vinyasa.

I know the obvious suggestion here is to get a good dvd, but I hate exercise dvds beacuse I can't do the same routine everyday without getting really bored really quickly. And somehow yoga just isn't the same if I have to stare at a tv screen while I am doing it. So, I am searching for good podcasts.

[Henna Rose 0]

Have you heard of Hot Yoga (Bikram) it's done in a heated room and is supposed to be fantastic for loosening joints and muscles, has detoxing effects, clears brain fog. I just started researching it, anyone tried it?

[jpaula 20]

I've tried it but it is just WAY too hot for me. Gasping, dripping--it was ugly. I have no idea how everyone around me was so zen while I was dying. Now I take an unheated class in a studio where they have a heated class before me so the room is pretty warm but I can still breathe. The heat really does help so I wish I could bear the really hot class, but I am a wimp. Boy, do I have respect for anyone who can sweat it out like that though!

[doodlebugg 10]

The only thing close to yoga that I've ever done is pilates but I was told to stop that, even though I loved it.

[jpaula 20]

Why were you told to stop pilates? I would do it every day if classes didn't cost a fortune. I mean, really, a fortune. It is kind of absurd. But, pilates itself is amazing. I did a dvd for a while but, like I said before, got bored with the same thing over and over. Now I try to add some of what I remember into my daily stretching or somehwhere in the middle of yoga. Not quite the same as the real thing, but so it is for now. My alter ego does pilates every day and has perfect, strong and lithe, posture. She is also tall and has a perfect French accent.

[doodlebugg 10]

Why were you told to stop pilates? I would do it every day if classes didn't cost a fortune. I mean, really, a fortune. It is kind of absurd. But, pilates itself is amazing. I did a dvd for a while but, like I said before, got bored with the same thing over and over. Now I try to add some of what I remember into my daily stretching or somehwhere in the middle of yoga. Not quite the same as the real thing, but so it is for now. My alter ego does pilates every day and has perfect, strong and lithe, posture. She is also tall and has a perfect French accent.

My alter ego doesn't gain weight after eating a gallon of mint chocolate chip iced cream every night, jogs 20 miles everymorning and is fresh as a daisy by 6am whipping up nice hot breakfast stuffs for the kiddos, never procrastinates and you can eat off of her kitchen floor.

I dunno why not, the physical therapist told me my disk in my lower back is just too damaged, though I do the walk away the pounds video with no problems (when I do it )

[chaishai 1]

Have you heard of Hot Yoga (Bikram) it's done in a heated room and is supposed to be fantastic for loosening joints and muscles, has detoxing effects, clears brain fog. I just started researching it, anyone tried it?

I do bikram yoga from time to time. I would love to do it at least once a week but I never plan it. I have it in my calendar for this week we will see how it goes.

It totally relaxes your muscles, improves your flexibility, detoxes you and you lose about a lb of water weight during the class. its a 90 min class and its done in 108 degree heated room. It is very challenging.

Why were you told to stop pilates? I would do it every day if classes didn't cost a fortune. I mean, really, a fortune. It is kind of absurd. But, pilates itself is amazing. I did a dvd for a while but, like I said before, got bored with the same thing over and over. Now I try to add some of what I remember into my daily stretching or somehwhere in the middle of yoga. Not quite the same as the real thing, but so it is for now. My alter ego does pilates every day and has perfect, strong and lithe, posture. She is also tall and has a perfect French accent.

i dont usually do pilates but i bought a pilates ring and im addicted to it. i sit in front of the computer squeezing my inner and outer thighs. i might bring it to work i will have thighs of steel!

[sereia 0]

i've always wanted to try bikram yoga. not sure why i never got off my lazy ####### and didn't try it yet.

i've done hatha yoga plenty though (they have classes at my gym so i don't have to pay extra)

don't know anything about podcasts or anything though, sorry!

[Ban Hammer 13,111]

i did yard work today, filled up the trailer with brush

[Jenn! 918]

Never did do those lunges. 100 is a lot! (timewise I mean)

I'm thinking of shifting some of my weights time to cardio time starting this week.

[doodlebugg 10]

Walked to the building from the pkg lot again today. Anyone check out the gross food thread in OT? Definitely a diet booster!

I think I'm going to do good this week only because I'm so nervous about my husband coming on Friday I constantly feel like I'm gonna puke!

[sereia 0]

i cheated big time last night. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

double scoop cone from baskin robbins. at least i didn't eat dinner. lol

[Nasturtium 500]

i cheated big time last night. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

double scoop cone from baskin robbins. at least i didn't eat dinner. lol

Yum! So you get to pick the next challenge then! Jenn is a wimp and didn't do it.

[Jenn! 918]

[chaishai 1]

OK Ill post the challenge for today.

Super circuit! Well I say its super!

25 jumping jacks

25 plie squats (feet turned out and legs about 3 feet apart)

25 crunches

repeat!

repeat!

repeat!

repeat!

(5 times total!)

you can do it girls!