Sweaty Thursday, Santa Cruz

Lucky enough to have my host family mother join me for this class. I always knew these classes were challenging, but after 2 years, I guess I'm used to the fast-paced down-dogs and double chatarangas. Polished this class off with an extra 200 push-ups!

Ali's healing stones made me want to do pushups.

Now I've done a lot of Ali's classes but this one by far is the most difficult, not so much for the beginning but about 30 minutes in she does some incredible locking poses that my hips just aren't open enough for. Definitely got me going for a sweat. I'm going to try and supplement pushups into my workout routine to see if I can add some upper body mass! 

3 Mile Run

Was feeling, for my second workout of the day... a little runnage. So I took a nice run to the park near Grand Ave? I think that's the street of it. Took a pretty good pace, under 8:30 miles, with some of the run being under 7:45! Maybe I'll try running 2-3 times a week. I'm not sure about getting a gym membership with the opera company. It always makes yoga incredibly mored difficult because my muscles are so torn up... who knows!

Long Class

Started out the day right with this difficult class. It is CHALLENGING. Lots of wheels, and about 10 minutes total with pigeon. This is something that will get you started! I'm going to have to do something easy tomorrow after this!

Yoga with Ali

OK, so if you ask me, I'll tell you: I'm a big believer in yoga. It works your whole body, it boosts your metabolism... etc. I don't pay for yoga usually, and this is why, Ali Kamenova yoga is THE BEST. It has yoga for every level, HIIT workouts, and workouts designed to target specific parts of your body and specific times you have to work out! And she starts off every class with "Namaste Beautiful Yogis". Can't really go wrong with that?

This summer, while I'm at St. Louis Opera Theatre (OTSL), I'm gonna give you all some updates about what kind of workouts I'm doing, and I'll put a rating next to them/video/workout that I do.

Moderate-Hard, 35 min.
Yesterday morning I did this class: It's designed for before work wake-you-up, and it does. It has some difficult balances with the warrior three transitions, plus one legged chairs. Anything with an arm balance is difficult too, and this one has 2 sets for each side. It's worth it though, it gets you sweating! It was the greatest thing at 11:30 AM In the morning for a long day of work.