This past week I was excited about my first session of
Yoga. Had a bit of a stretch on Tuesday in
anticipation of the yoga.
We did a Mike Dennison yoga DVD called "Yoga Made for Runners" on Wednesday morning. I consider it a success because I didn’t pass
wind while stretching with the girls. I wasn’t expecting to break a sweat, but I
completely left a sweat stain on the mat I used. Afterword I had shaky legs so I’m calling it
a workout. I felt so good during my
twenty minute walk to work, that I felt like going for a run. I’m smart enough to not do that.
I did have to run across the road that evening and I could
feel my leg. No pain, but it was tight.
Thursday night, my wife and I did the same yoga workout and
again, I felt great. I felt so good I
tried a P90x ab workout after yoga. It was sixteen minutes long, but I only
lasted about ten and just lay there for the last bit feeling humbled. I fully expected to be able to keep up.
Friday and Monday I swam and could feel my hamstring both
days. No pain, but I could feel the
tightness of it. I blame the fin drills.
Saturday was 60 minutes of Sufferfest spinning on the
stationary bikes. That was hard as I was
definitely limited by my leg. It
hurt. We follow that up with about
thirty minutes of core exercises.
10 crunches
10 left side crunches
10 right side crunches (raising legs)
10 left side crunches (raising legs)
10 tummy crunches (with bottoms of the feet touching)
10 push ups
10 supermen/superwomen
10 squats
10 lunges
Now this was repeated 10 times! (10x10x10=1000)
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| That's me doing the side crunch. The picture is stolen from a buddy's blog: http://darrellrun.blogspot.ca/ |
It was hard, but I got it done. I did a bit of stretching and felt great the rest of the day.
More stretching on Monday evening after swimming in the
morning and I could feel the improvement in my legs.
We’ll see how things keep going.
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