Start of Week 2!

Whenever I've gotten the urge to start working out every day, right about now is when I would normally give up. I'm tired. I'm sore. I don't wanna. But I committed to 30 days, and I'm going to keep going! Besides, it's just one more day, and then I get Friday off!

Today was the hottest class I've been to yet! Vicki said we were up to 105!! Overall, I thought the standing series went by fairly quickly, and by then it was feeling stifling. At first I was really happy to have the fans on, and then I quickly realized they're just blowing hot air around :P But it felt good. Like a tropical vacation.

In case you haven't noticed, I'm not exactly tiny. Or even medium. I'm pretty big. There are some postures where flexibility isn't as much of a problem as my overall mass is. Sometimes my bulky thighs get in the way, sometimes my belly, and very often my boobs.

When I first started, my boobs got in the way a lot. I'm carrying 38 D's in front of me, and when you're trying to stand with your forehead on your knee and your throat choked, those things are trying their hardest to suffocate you. But I learned with some little modifications (basically trying to get my chin between them) that I could hold the pose just fine.

I'm a stomach sleeper, so generally the floor series doesn't bother me, but it REALLY did today! I was more focused on the fact that I was squishing my boobs and they kinda hurt than I was on anything else.

But since yoga is all about focusing on the positives, I can tell you that I rocked half moon today! And I went further back on the back-bend than I have yet.

I also did better with balancing stick. I'm learning that I need not to clench my toes, and I'll be able to ground down through my whole foot and maintain better balance. This will help a lot with standing bow, too. I love that the Bikram series seems to build on itself. To help keep my legs locked and maintain balance, I need to loosen my hamstrings and strengthen my quads, which just about every posture in the standing series helps you work on in different ways. Definitely felt the quads burning in Awkward pose! My hamstrings are definitely looser than when I first started, and I think my quads are coming along too, because the balancing is definitely getting better.

Tonight was also a very happy group of people! What a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day :D