Cross Training

So yesterday I was supposed to cross train. Instead, I rested, thus pushing cross training to today and strength training/2 mile run to friday. Todays adventure in cross training: yoga.

I have a love-hate relationship with yoga. I really want to love it and sometimes do. A time I loved it: when I lived in Rochester and would do the 5am yoga program Inhale on the Oxygen channel. I was good enough I could actually do the whole hour with only minor trouble by the end of about a month of doing it. But then I moved and no longer got the Oxygen channel. Since then, I've tried in vain to find yoga I enjoy. "Inhale" used motown and other not new age-y music. The host had some bad habits: like encouraging people to bounce sometimes during warrior pose to the music, but if you know better then you just ignored that advice. But overall I really liked that program. I miss it. :(

Today I attempted a podcast yoga program I found quite awhile ago and never really did: Yogamazing with Chaz. Each podcast has a different focus like "Yoga for weight loss" (the one I did today) and "Yoga for *insert sport here*. The program was about 20 minutes after Chaz did his greetings. It was a pretty fast paced program focused more on quick frequent repetition of the poses than "getting into a zone" or relaxation. Hopefully I didn't overdo it and create any problems. I tend to do that and then wind up with upper back spasms from simple "gentle non-sweat inducing workplace yoga"....

Now it's off to find a wedding shower gift for this weekend and maybe a quick 15 minute bike ride when I get home to round out my cross training. Ideally, I'll do 1 cross training day of yoga type moves and 1 day of biking or workout videos....