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Workout: Power Yoga: The Complete Workout
Author: chaos

For what I believe is only the second time ever, I did the complete set of stamina, strength, and flexibility today. It wasn’t really my original plan… I was thinking I’d probably go after total body again, or perhaps do some abs work. But I think this ended up being a fairly good choice… while the poses aren’t particularly difficult, getting through the entire workout does require some endurance. When done as a single workout, they come in right around 70 minutes, making it the longest workout I have. Admittedly, there’s more resting in the middle than there would normally be, due to the nature of the workout, so it probably balances out somewhat. I had an interesting experience during the strength section of the workout… right at the beginning, I had that “light limb” feeling, where it seemed like my limbs were just floating into place, particularly my arms. That was nice to experience again. But it was even more notable that as I went through the workout, while I still experienced that, I could feel the part of my shoulders that was getting fatigued. The rest of the shoulder still felt light, but that part felt… tired? Something like that. I need to figure out how to get my mat to retain stickiness throughout the workout. It usually starts out fine, but as my hands start sweating, it becomes difficult for me to keep them in place during downward dog. I think my attempts to do this are causing undue strain on my shoulders, which is why they’ve seemed more fatigued lately than it seemed like they should be. I am going to start trying to clean my mat more regularly, to see if that helps the problem. Well, that’s all for tonight… I think I’ll go for an abs workout tomorrow, probably in combination with something else. But possibly not… I’m not sure if I’m ready to do hip opening again quite yet, and I did the other likely candidates today. But maybe some mini-workouts or something. Oh yeah, one other note… after I finished the workout, I was trying to get my legs to flatten out in simple cross-legged pose. While experimenting with that, I realized that I really wasn’t far from putting the right leg in half lotus. So I decided to go ahead and do that. And it not only worked, but actually looked like a fairly convincing half lotus. It wasn’t very comfortable, but I’m fairly certain it’s the best half lotus I’ve done to date, and further evidence that I am making some progress with hip flexibility.

Workout: Power Yoga: The Complete Workout
Author: chaos

Well, I finally went ahead and did the complete workout for the first time tonight. This is the disc that’s comprised of the power yoga stamina, strength, and flexibility workouts. I’ve done two of the three workouts a number of times, but only once or twice have I even felt capable of doing the complete workout, and have never actually done it before. It went pretty well… it does work pretty well as one workout. Although I have to admit that I don’t like all the stretching at the end of the stamina workout when you’re going to continue into the others. Other than that, though, it does provide a fairly thorough workout. I wish that there were more warriors in this one, though, because it doesn’t really feel like my legs got much of a workout. My shoulders were starting to feel a little tired by the end, but not to the point of collapse or anything. My muscles were definitely nice and warm for the flexibility workout, which was great. I felt as though I was expanding into some of the poses a little more than I have before, probably because of the thorough warm up. Anyway. Not sure what I’ll do tomorrow… I might even take the day off, although I somewhat doubt it. No specific plans for tomorrow right now, so I’ll just take it as it comes, I guess.