Just as I finish complaining about not sweating enough I encounter the cardio workout the next day. Nothing gets you going quite like some sweet cardio flow. Drizzled sweat on my matt, but not as sweaty as a man called Bibo (that's what you get for chasing me!)
Today I got through the Mountain (no surprise), the Pranayama breathing (no surprise) and failed the meditation (no surprise). This time I just turned it off at the beginning. Skipped meditation last night. I just am not comfortable in my own mind.
I went to an awesome new chiropractor today. I haven't felt this normal in a long time. I still have some minor discomfort in my shoulder, but he really got the right adjustments. Glad I finally switched. This guy asked all the right questions and saw all the right stuff. My hip was out of alignment so my right leg was actually 1/2 an inch longer than my left. Once back in alignment through some adjustments (neck, rib, shoulder) the pain was gone and my legs were back the same length. Crazy...
Pop goes the Tito!
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Friday, February 14, 2014
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Days 29 and 30 - No more drinking
I surprised myself by pulling off a mid-day Yoga session and despite the walking around all day was full of energy and focused. The looseness after the workout really helped my back, which was otherwise very stiff. It seems to be getting worse not better. That's what I get for seeing a doctor and not a chiropractor.
Doctors - "Chiropractors don't really know medicine. Here take these pills and hope the problem goes away".
Chiropractors - "Let's work on the acute problem through adjustments and physical therapy and let's stop the recurring problem by exercising to strengthen and add flexibility to the areas that triggered the problem."
I don't know about you, but I'm consistently disappointed with the reactive and generally unhelpful nature of modern medicine.
So things were on the upswing, but sadly I made the same rookie error I always do and I drank too much. But this time it was way too much. Over the limit too much making me an angry and bitter person ruining the special occasion for my special lady. Never again.
I need to learn to moderate. I've always been such an extreme person and that just gets me into trouble and causes me to make bad decisions. So I need to decide whether it makes sense to do the extreme of not drinking at all or whether I can train myself to not test my boundaries and go spilling over. The latter is nicer in practice and in line with the moderation philosophy. The former is more extreme, but more likely I will be able to abide.
In any event today's cardio workout was good and necessary to sweat out some of the crap causing my head to ache.
The poor lady can't get out of bed and we are ruining wasting her special occasion. One more McD's for the road
Doctors - "Chiropractors don't really know medicine. Here take these pills and hope the problem goes away".
Chiropractors - "Let's work on the acute problem through adjustments and physical therapy and let's stop the recurring problem by exercising to strengthen and add flexibility to the areas that triggered the problem."
I don't know about you, but I'm consistently disappointed with the reactive and generally unhelpful nature of modern medicine.
So things were on the upswing, but sadly I made the same rookie error I always do and I drank too much. But this time it was way too much. Over the limit too much making me an angry and bitter person ruining the special occasion for my special lady. Never again.
I need to learn to moderate. I've always been such an extreme person and that just gets me into trouble and causes me to make bad decisions. So I need to decide whether it makes sense to do the extreme of not drinking at all or whether I can train myself to not test my boundaries and go spilling over. The latter is nicer in practice and in line with the moderation philosophy. The former is more extreme, but more likely I will be able to abide.
In any event today's cardio workout was good and necessary to sweat out some of the crap causing my head to ache.
The poor lady can't get out of bed and we are ruining wasting her special occasion. One more McD's for the road
Monday, January 6, 2014
Day 7 - Mountain Poses & Pranayama Meditation
January 6, 2014
Bet you guys were worried I already gave up. Nah, just late to the party because I had a crazy day getting back to work. Happy New Year to me. I don't promise to always update on the day of, but I will try to post something on each of the 108 days. After a while I'll stop the workout posts and post on other fun yoga related topics since it might get boring/creepy to hear me go "aaarrghhh Travis no please not the PLOW"..."aarrghh that brunette chick in the leg warmers is SOOOOOO hot...." for 108 days.
Well today's workout was actually the first one I failed at. How can I fail a day about breathing and meditation? You'd think you just have to show up. Well you underestimate the ability of my little one to pick impeccable timing to get up early. His moans turned into cries and then into screams and wails. Sheesh. I had to go get him. Plus Travis was going on about being grateful to grasshoppers or something and I'm not exactly the grateful type. When others are grateful for getting over a cold I wonder why they had to get one in the first place. A deeper more metaphysical conversation for another time. Oh and it was -15 today so definitely wasn't feeling grateful, particularly when I had to dig my nanny's car back out of the snow again.
I tried to make it up by doing 10 minutes of meditation this evening, but I got through only 7 and then started checking Instagram...I'm not even sure I should be calling myself the Mediocre Yogi right now...
Bet you guys were worried I already gave up. Nah, just late to the party because I had a crazy day getting back to work. Happy New Year to me. I don't promise to always update on the day of, but I will try to post something on each of the 108 days. After a while I'll stop the workout posts and post on other fun yoga related topics since it might get boring/creepy to hear me go "aaarrghhh Travis no please not the PLOW"..."aarrghh that brunette chick in the leg warmers is SOOOOOO hot...." for 108 days.
Well today's workout was actually the first one I failed at. How can I fail a day about breathing and meditation? You'd think you just have to show up. Well you underestimate the ability of my little one to pick impeccable timing to get up early. His moans turned into cries and then into screams and wails. Sheesh. I had to go get him. Plus Travis was going on about being grateful to grasshoppers or something and I'm not exactly the grateful type. When others are grateful for getting over a cold I wonder why they had to get one in the first place. A deeper more metaphysical conversation for another time. Oh and it was -15 today so definitely wasn't feeling grateful, particularly when I had to dig my nanny's car back out of the snow again.
I tried to make it up by doing 10 minutes of meditation this evening, but I got through only 7 and then started checking Instagram...I'm not even sure I should be calling myself the Mediocre Yogi right now...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Day 2 - Cardio
January 1, 2014
Happy New Year!
So how many times have I heard about the fabled cardio benefits of a yoga workout? True, when I was a lard butt in the beginning of 2013 I used to sweat doing yoga, but I also sweat every time I walked up a flight of stairs or had to carry more than 2 beers at a time. Having completed P90X, Les Mills Combat and other cardio intensive programs I expected this to be one of the lighter programs. I did P90's plyo workout every Saturday meaning I was hungover every time. If I can handle that, I can handle anything. Oh boy am I mistaken. This sh*t is hard! Despite my freezing living room (I caulked the windows properly I swear!), I have broken a sweat in no time. I'm no longer terrified of all the tattoos, which is awesome progress. I'm also not perving on the Asian girl, though brunette chick in the brown yoga pants on the other hand...hey it's only day two so please cut me some slack!
Every time I think Travis is going to be done with the vinyasa, he tricks me and keeps going, but I am determined not to give up. A few of my up dogs become cobras and I skip a couple transition pushups, but otherwise I actually manage to hang. However, my nanny must think I am dying with all my grunts and groans. She brings the boy to check up on me. Great - just what I need - my little one to see his old man as some sweaty messed up dude in an awkward compromising posture.
Thank Jachweh he finally reaches the cool down postures. Wait, what's this, bridges? Oh man I thought we were done. Plow...PLOW! My chiropractor told me that the one pose he doesn't do is plow because he knows if he ever goes in, it's all over, he's had it and he's never getting out of it. I generally feel the same, but I've come this far so I've got to try.
I remember when researching this program I read a review on Amazon with the reviewer beautifully chronicling their journey and mentioning they cried on the last day of the program. I couldn't help but think what a wuss. But the darndest thing happened is I shed a few tears during one of the twists. Day 2? I guess I'm a real wuss. Must be the hangover...
Happy New Year!
So how many times have I heard about the fabled cardio benefits of a yoga workout? True, when I was a lard butt in the beginning of 2013 I used to sweat doing yoga, but I also sweat every time I walked up a flight of stairs or had to carry more than 2 beers at a time. Having completed P90X, Les Mills Combat and other cardio intensive programs I expected this to be one of the lighter programs. I did P90's plyo workout every Saturday meaning I was hungover every time. If I can handle that, I can handle anything. Oh boy am I mistaken. This sh*t is hard! Despite my freezing living room (I caulked the windows properly I swear!), I have broken a sweat in no time. I'm no longer terrified of all the tattoos, which is awesome progress. I'm also not perving on the Asian girl, though brunette chick in the brown yoga pants on the other hand...hey it's only day two so please cut me some slack!
Every time I think Travis is going to be done with the vinyasa, he tricks me and keeps going, but I am determined not to give up. A few of my up dogs become cobras and I skip a couple transition pushups, but otherwise I actually manage to hang. However, my nanny must think I am dying with all my grunts and groans. She brings the boy to check up on me. Great - just what I need - my little one to see his old man as some sweaty messed up dude in an awkward compromising posture.
Thank Jachweh he finally reaches the cool down postures. Wait, what's this, bridges? Oh man I thought we were done. Plow...PLOW! My chiropractor told me that the one pose he doesn't do is plow because he knows if he ever goes in, it's all over, he's had it and he's never getting out of it. I generally feel the same, but I've come this far so I've got to try.
I remember when researching this program I read a review on Amazon with the reviewer beautifully chronicling their journey and mentioning they cried on the last day of the program. I couldn't help but think what a wuss. But the darndest thing happened is I shed a few tears during one of the twists. Day 2? I guess I'm a real wuss. Must be the hangover...
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