exercise

that it was destructive to my yoga practice. i had to stop for a few months and did mostly elliptical machine activity during that time, until my fave tv shows ended their seasons. now im ready to get back into yoga and have marked this goal completed in favor of starting a new fitness goal for the summer: do a full left split. I have always been super flexible in my hips, and my right side can do a split easily, but my left hamstring is much tighter. I’ve adopted this summer goal in the hopes of becoming more balanced.

image: couch potato-ey stuff; to be avoided!

ive been on the elliptical once a week lately instead of twice a week. and no yoga. boo.

while watching gossip girl. im getting faster and its getting more fun!

bad. i haven’t been to yoga in the past two weeks, and i’ve spent less time on the elliptical machine. but yesterday i did some heavy duty weeding for two hours, and my back muscles are a little sore today so i guess i got some exercise then.

watched antm from the elliptical today AND a well rounded yoga practice. feels awesome.

hiking today, elliptical yesterday, yoga class tomorrow!

elliptical machine tues and thurs
yoga on wed
two hours of hiking today
yaaaaaay

we got an elliptical machine this week, so now i can set more concrete and measurable goals than i could when i was just doing yoga. yoga its easy to measure time spent, but not so easy to quantify things like improvement in endurance or heart rate. hopefully ill have a lot more to update here as i keep track of my progress!

SNOW DAY! so I got up and did almost an hour of cross country skiing on the neighboring golf course. feels GREAT.

went to my school’s free yoga class today. I missed the class at my regular studio last night because i stayed late at work to prep the labs for today. note to self: prep labs earlier so you can go to yoga!