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Workout: Yoga Burn
Author: chaos

As I was rather expecting to do, went for the yoga burn workout tonight. It was actually quite tough… I wasn’t too sure that I was going to make it through the entire thing. I really need to start monitoring my diet more closely… that’s really the only explanation I can come up with for this… difficulty I’m having with some of these workouts. While this isn’t an easy workout, it’s certainly not difficult enough that I should be worrying about getting through the entire thing. However, with my sleep schedule being somewhat skewed lately, it’s thrown my eating schedule off as well. I’ve been trying to make sure I eat at least three meals a day, but I’m not too certain I haven’t missed a few. Anyway. Not too much else to say about the workout… got it in a little later than I’d have liked, but I was having trouble motivating up for it. Not sure why. Anyway, don’t know what I’m going to do tomorrow… maybe get in a pilates workout or something, give myself a bit of a break and see if I can come into the next long workout with some good energy. That’s what I’m thinking right now, we’ll see what actually happens.

Workout: Yoga Burn
Author: chaos

I seem to have caught a bit of a stomach virus. My stomach was pretty queasy all day yesterday, and so I ended up deciding to take the day off. It was doing somewhat better today, although it was still somewhat off. However, I decided that it wasn’t enough of an issue to prevent me from doing my workout, so I went ahead and got one in. Decided to go with yoga burn again today… I was originally thinking about total body, but ended up deciding it might be a little too vigorous. It was a pretty good workout… not quite as good as the one I did on Sunday, but still pretty decent. I think my focus was a little off, but I’ve been a little off my game for the past two or three days, so that wasn’t surprising. Anyway, I’m hoping to be over this little problem in the next day or two… I may hold off on abs workouts until I am over it, though, which could effect what I do tomorrow. So I guess I’ll just see then.

Workout: Yoga Burn
Author: chaos

Decided to go ahead and try out the yoga burn workout again. Looking back at my previous entries for this workout, it seems that every time I try it, it seems more difficult. Which I think means that I’m getting better at doing it the way it was meant to be done. I think today’s workout was pretty decent… I was really keeping with the pace of the workout pretty well, and working the muscles. Particularly in the chest and shoulders, but that’s an area of constant work right now, it seems. One day I’ll have real strength there, oh yes. Anyway. Not really too much to say about it, other than I should really stop underestimating the difficulty of the workout, and probably try to integrate it into the routine more often. Although, as I was saying, given so many workouts it’s difficult to integrate everything in. The shorter ones will probably be less frequent for a while, probably at least until the beginning of ultimate season.

Workout: Yoga Burn
Author: chaos

Well, December has gotten off to a bit of a bad start in terms of workouts. Mostly due to slacking off, although the first was largely taken up by essay writing. Anyway, decided to check out the yoga burn workout again. It was somewhat more difficult than I remember it being… this is probably either because my memory is faulty, or I was doing a better job of actually working slowly. Or possibly because I was hungry, and thus a little weaker than I would normally be. I’m still not sure how beneficial this workout is for me, at least when compared against some of my other options. It is fairly meditative, though, which is nice. I’m kind of curious to find out whether I’ll be sore tomorrow… it seems like I could be, which could definitely be a sign of the workout being good. Whatever. Anyway… not too sure what I’ll do tomorrow. Possibly pilates. I might do abs, but tonight’s workout had a lot of abs in it, so that might not be best. Until then…

Workout: Yoga Burn
Author: chaos

As planned, I went with the new Yoga Burn workout today. New isn’t quite the right descriptor, since I’ve had it a number of months now, but this is the first time that I’ve actually done the workout. It was interesting… I’m as of yet undecided on how useful it’s going to be to me. Certainly it was somewhat challenging today, but if I were fully recharged… I’m not so sure. Anyway, the principle behind the workout is the same as negatives in weight lifting, really. Slow movement can be very effective for building muscle. So, the entire workout is based on slow movements between poses. The poses aren’t really held, for the most part. They’re more like transition points for direction changes. There’s quite a bit of stretching in the workout. Overall, I don’t feel like I worked all that hard, but at the same time, I felt like I was working pretty hard at points during the workout. Part of that is recent activity, though… the parts that were similar to the abs workout hurt, quite a bit. Well, hurt in the “feel the burn” way. Anyway, I’ll probably try and get a couple good workouts in over the next couple of days, then have a few light days in the middle of the week.