Cardio/Yoga

Today I went to the cardio/yoga class. I like this class because you get a good cardio workout and then you get to relax with the yoga portion. I am a big fan of yoga, but I really feel that you should take classes from a yoga instructor that will really teach you how to do the poses correctly. I worry sometimes that when we do yoga without the proper training that we do not get the benefits and that you can get hurt. I took many classes with a yoga instructor when I lived in Portland that really taught me about breathing and how to do the poses. When you do the poses correctly you will really feel your body working hard. Yoga should not be an easy workout. It should be relaxing, but if you do it correctly you can really work your body. So that is the end of my soapbox about yoga. During the cardio portion of the class we did hi/low (on the floor). This consisted of things like hustle up and back, step touch, grapevine, etc. I was able to burn 162 calories during the cardio portion of this class. When we started the yoga portion, I made sure to take my heart rate as it went down quite a bit once I stopped jumping around. I burned an additional 88 calories. The total for the whole class was 250 calories.

On Wednesday, Morgan also gets a chance to workout as they have a kids class at the Y. Morgan loves it! She looks forward to this day every week and asks to go on other days of the week. Her class is 30 minutes so I decided to go and get a little more cardio while she was doing her class. I walked on the treadmill for 20 minutes.


Start 3.5 speed and 0 incline
1 Minute 3.5 speed and 2.0 incline
2 Minutes 3.5 speed and 4.0 incline
3 Minutes 3.5 speed and 6.0 incline
4 Minutes 3.5 speed and 8.0 incline
5 Minutes 3.5 speed and 10.0 incline
6 Minutes 3.5 speed and 12.0 incline
7-14 Mintues Hold 3.5 speed and 12.0 incline
14 Minutes 3.5 speed and 10.0 incline
15 minutes 3.5 speed and 8.0 incline
16 minutes 3.5 speed and 6.0 incline
17 minutes 3.5 speed and 4.0 incline
18 minutes 3.5 speed and 2.0 incline
19 minutes 3.5 speed and 0 incline

This additional 20 minutes helped me burn an additional 115 calories. So for a total of 1 hour and 20 minutes I burned 365 calories. I consider this a very good day. I try on average to burn at least 300 calories a day to help me lose weight. I can lower this a little when I am maintaining. If I want to eat more during the day then I try to keep my number of calories burned up so that I have a little more leeway with my food choices during the day.

Just a quick note from Monday of this week to Tuesday I lost a total of 1/2 a pound so this really does work! Have a great day!