Monday Workout: Balance

This week we’re doing some work on our balance.  When we use the Bosu for step-ups, we have to work a bit harder since it’s not a stable surface and single leg catch is a simple challenge to balance and coordination!  Three rounds.

(jump) squats	30
deadlifts	20
Arnold press	10
Bosu step ups	30
flies	20
1 leg catch	10
mountain climbers	30
rows	20
pretty princesses	10

Friday Book Report: Light on Yoga

Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar was the book that introduced many people in the west to yoga.  My little free library brought me a copy, so I read it.

It is a readable and helpful book, full of photos and clear descriptions of asanas.  It assumes a base level of flexibility that is uncommon in my experience and does not use props, so it might not be a best first source for most people.

It’s clearly a useful reference and became classic for good reasons.  You can borrow it from the shelf in my studio if you want the details!

Hey, baby, what are you planning to wear???

I have this fantasy where I am the cool chick with the laid-back life, ready to go on adventures instantly.  Go on:  crush my dreams.  Here in reality land, I know that one of my skills is planning.  I also know that planning makes my life much cooler, even though it sounds incredibly boring.

Planning is what makes my workouts work.  I don’t have to figure out what to do in the moment because I already figured out what this week’s workouts were going to be while I planned for my clients.  I don’t have to try to decide what kind of snack to feed my starving self that has some vague relationship to healthy food in the moment because I thought about it while I was making the week’s grocery list.

Anyone with fitness goals is deciding to make some peace with planning, as unsexy as it is.  Goals don’t do anything unless we have plans to get them done.

And I can always use my skills to plan for an amazing adventure…