HOT Yoga...Literally!

Due to the intensity of our workouts and the craziness of our schedule...we need to wind down and do some injury prevention. Fortunately, not every workout has to be high intensity suicide. Today was a morning to try something new! A local Yoga studio offers HOT YOGA...Yes, I said hot yoga.

Hot yoga refers to yoga exercises performed under hot and humid conditions. Often associated with the style devised by Bikram Choudhury, hot yoga is now used to describe any number of yoga styles that use heat to increase an individual's flexibility in the poses^. In colder climates, hot yoga often seeks to replicate the heat and humidity of southern India from where many styles of yoga originate. Hot Yoga is ideally practiced in a room heated to 105°F (≈ 40.6°C) with a humidity of 40%!

 The heated studio helps for deeper stretching and injury prevention, while reducing stress and tension. Hot Yoga stimulates and restores health to every muscle, joint, and organ of the body.

The class was very relaxing...an amazing experience that we are excited about trying again!!

Meals were pretty steady today...
I ended up drinking 3 Visalus shakes today...when my body gets really hot, its hard to eat because you can lose your appetite. But, you have to keep the body fueled...its important to keep the metabolism up!! If not, I won't have the energy to make it through the day. One of the shakes was a tropical shake!!

2 scoops of Body by Vi Meal shake mix

1/2 banana

1/2 fat free plain yogurt

1 cup of frozen fruit...pineapple, strawberries

1/2 cup of water

Blended til creamy...quick, easy, and delicious!!

The last workout of the day....

 one hour of one of us teaching Zumba Toning and the other one of us teaching  Ballroom class...Head to Lagrange for a Ballroom Social party!

Last meal of the evening...

chicken cut up in cubes and cooked in the WOK...mixed with light teriyaki sauce, garlic, green onions, and chopped yellow peppers and mixed Japanese vegetables!