Bikram Yoga Day 3
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angelakMade it there again.
90 more minutes squared.
I was able to do better with my knee locking. I have no idea why keeping your knee locked in these positions is such a big challenge, but it is. Overall, feeling pretty good. Hoping to make it out there for a 4th day in a row, tomorrow.
Not much else to report except that it takes my mind off things, because you cannot do anything if your mind is elsewhere - I even find after class I don't really elect to have my radio on. This is rare.
Sort of bask in the quiet of my mind, and mostly also I find a lot of cravings for crappy foods seem to dissolve. And then I also don't seem to be hungry for quite some time after wards.
Interesting, to be sure. And seeing as you cannot much before, not eating after - tends to curtail any munching momentarily. For a goodly portion of time.
My body definitely feels... different.
Hm. And the poses feel sloppy at best, and malformed. But I pretty much do my best and push myself as much as won't altogether hurt me beyond the few minuets that it supposed to feel "uncomfortable" for everyday. :P
Today I got further with the kneeling poses. I think mayhaps my tendons are responding - altogether quickly to this. I'm afraid to say it is so for jinxing's sake. But I know the discomfort I had been feeling last week is already very much lessened if not gone. I will work with this "week long" intensive, see where it takes me, and then see how probable it is that I will have enough strength and mentality left over for my other hobbies; running and CT.
Particularly running in the longer run, and CT in the shorter run :P
And I feel like food fills me oh-so-much quicker when I eat meals. How very odd.
I am totally not making this up - because I've been a yoga skeptic in the past. These are wholly different sensations. I could get used to it quickly.
Today's instructor was yet another one. I liked her even better than the other two. She was encouraging, but pushed everyone hard, and did so very well at also taking seconds here and there to make adjustments to individuals. Even me! The n00b. As all n00bs are in any plain - I do struggle at form. It is hard to get it all synchronized. Or physically just really hard on my poor, under-developed quads? Whatever the case, every time I feel like I leave and my quads are getting stronger. Which could one day make this god-awful misery of tendon fun go away.
But I'm not impatient. I am just happy with any results that follow me along the way.
Oh, and by the way - I have NEVER in my life stared at myself for that long. In the same week. over and over again. How very odd.
-Angela
90 more minutes squared.
I was able to do better with my knee locking. I have no idea why keeping your knee locked in these positions is such a big challenge, but it is. Overall, feeling pretty good. Hoping to make it out there for a 4th day in a row, tomorrow.
Not much else to report except that it takes my mind off things, because you cannot do anything if your mind is elsewhere - I even find after class I don't really elect to have my radio on. This is rare.
Sort of bask in the quiet of my mind, and mostly also I find a lot of cravings for crappy foods seem to dissolve. And then I also don't seem to be hungry for quite some time after wards.
Interesting, to be sure. And seeing as you cannot much before, not eating after - tends to curtail any munching momentarily. For a goodly portion of time.
My body definitely feels... different.
Hm. And the poses feel sloppy at best, and malformed. But I pretty much do my best and push myself as much as won't altogether hurt me beyond the few minuets that it supposed to feel "uncomfortable" for everyday. :P
Today I got further with the kneeling poses. I think mayhaps my tendons are responding - altogether quickly to this. I'm afraid to say it is so for jinxing's sake. But I know the discomfort I had been feeling last week is already very much lessened if not gone. I will work with this "week long" intensive, see where it takes me, and then see how probable it is that I will have enough strength and mentality left over for my other hobbies; running and CT.
Particularly running in the longer run, and CT in the shorter run :P
And I feel like food fills me oh-so-much quicker when I eat meals. How very odd.
I am totally not making this up - because I've been a yoga skeptic in the past. These are wholly different sensations. I could get used to it quickly.
Today's instructor was yet another one. I liked her even better than the other two. She was encouraging, but pushed everyone hard, and did so very well at also taking seconds here and there to make adjustments to individuals. Even me! The n00b. As all n00bs are in any plain - I do struggle at form. It is hard to get it all synchronized. Or physically just really hard on my poor, under-developed quads? Whatever the case, every time I feel like I leave and my quads are getting stronger. Which could one day make this god-awful misery of tendon fun go away.
But I'm not impatient. I am just happy with any results that follow me along the way.
Oh, and by the way - I have NEVER in my life stared at myself for that long. In the same week. over and over again. How very odd.
-Angela
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