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June 28, 2008
Yoga/Pilates Challenge -- July 2008
My Yoga/Pilates Challenge of July 2008 is as follows:
I challenge myself, and anyone who wants to join me, to take a yoga or Pilates class six days a week (can you tell I've been hanging out with the Ashtangis lately?) for the whole of July 2008. I am going to wring every bit of value out of my summer membership to my yoga studio.
A few caveats:
-- Knowing that there will be some days when work makes it impossible for me to get to class, I can substitute doing the whole of my Pilates video at home or on the road, or doing more than one class on one of the other days of the week, sorta banking classes the way Weight Watchers bank points.
-- At the end of the month, a short trip to NC for my grandmother's birthday party will probably make it impossible to practice. But I'll bring the video anyhow, and perhaps even convince my dad to let me teach him a Pilates class.
-- If I'm ill or feeling a bad kind of sore (vs the usual good kind of sore) I won't practice, but I'll make an effort to go to a gentle class if I feel like I can.
Oh, and I'm going to get my cardio back up to 4 days a week. Every other day, basically. Every day is too much, but this once a week stuff is too little.
I think that consistency in my exercise will help me deal with more consistent calorie levels. I've been eating 1400 all week, and that's a weight loss level for me, probably too quick a weight loss level with this much activity, so yesterday I did two classes and went up to 1650. I was feeling slightly ill on Wednesday and Thursday, and made both Edward and Susie feel my forehead to see if I had a fever, which sure enough, I did. (Conversation with Edward: "I'm addressing you in your capacity as a parent. Feel my head and see if I have a fever." Yes, I had a fever. I did not ask if I could stay home from school.) Canceled plans to go out on Thursday as just was not feeling well, and slept a whole bunch. Now I seem fine. There was a cold going around Toronto and I think I felt a touch of it but as is pretty normal for me in good CR state, fought it off. Now feeling extremely well.
Well enough, in fact, that I am planning to take an hour and a half long Vinyasa today. Yesterday's was only fifty minutes, which was great, but I definitely felt like I could keep going.
I am also cleaning the house, getting a pedicure, and then my mother and I are going to see Sex and the City! After that we're going to the little Italian BYO around the corner for dinner. We have such cute little restaurants in my town. This one has just one small dining room with seven or eight tables, and it's very inexpensive but has great, fresh food, and almost always has a tilapia special on the menu.
Off to pick up my Nancy's Organic Cottage Cheese before somebody else takes it!
Posted by april at June 28, 2008 5:26 AM
Comments
Not sure if I can do yoga every day, but I'll join in to see if I can do some major activity every day. M
Posted by: Marti at June 28, 2008 8:56 AM