Weekend Blur

Holy Grail of Workouts??

Day 20

Play Vinyasa

No surprise on Friday I'm too tired to meet the trainers @ 360 gym for a 07:00 beasting. Instead I sleep in and promise myself catch up time later that day. Saturday morning brings a familiar feeling of fatigue (there she goes again). Now that we all get the point, I still dig deep, scrapping the bottom of the barrel I decide I need to take my Polar to a 11:00 Vinyasa class. It's only an hour long but the intense routine involves plenty of muscular strength, long holding squats, variation lunges and I'm finding my head dangling upside down from my body testing my brain centre of gravity, if I can call it that, seeing flashing lights, my endurance, stamina and mental balance is challenged. This insanity that is power yoga in 35 degrees heat, has people, including myself coming back for more and more. It is an addiction and when Jax is instructing us to do narrow grip pushups into upward dogs into downward dogs, jumping our shins onto our forearms and back into pushups is where I think I've found my version of methamphetamine. They say yoga makes you look years younger, "exude youthfulness" and improves your sex life too, not to mention an incredible long list of all the other benefits of yoga, briefly mentioned before on previous posts. Who needs a facial and R500 face cream when you walk out of a yoga studio glowing like a million bucks? Well not me at least and I have been looking like a dogs dehydrated breakfast of late, due to lack of nutrition and sleep, imagine the skin once this beast of a lunatic is watered and fed?

Yoga Tree Pose

The Side Crow: Balance, Upper body, Core and Leg strength

MORE BENEFITS OF POWER YOGA:

Power yoga bolsters flexibility, stamina and strength.

Power yoga promotes improvement of one person's ability and capability to focus and concentrate.
 

Power yoga helps people release the distracting anxiety and overall tension.

Power yoga helps one person develop and maintain good and proper posture.
 

Power yoga tones the body in a way that is neither hard nor stressful.
 

Bodily toxins are removed from the physical or body system through the sweat the body excretes during power yoga session.
 

Power yoga also serves as a great warm up or training activity for all sorts and types of athletes. Seen on previous post @ 360
 

Warrior 2 Reverse

Warrior 2 Reverse

Warrior 3, stretching and strengthening the hip girdle like no other!

Warrior 3 on Bosu, need to drop left hip!

Bringing spine parallel to the floor, also flexing left leg and toes + pulling up on right quad

The Head stand, the Shoulder stand and the Wheel pose (not shown here), to name a few shoots my heart rate right up to my 170bpm, which is nearly 90% of my MHR! The 60min of practice torched 312kcal!

Its about equivalent to a 30 minute fast jog... Great cardiovascular exercise as it trains you to push harder and longer in your Aerobic Zone where the body's ability to transport oxygen to, and carbon dioxide away from, the working muscles can be developed and improved. Improving overall fitness! Yes please!

Play Run

Just because I'm nuts and still energized from Vinyasa, I feel like I can do more because I'm not entirely exhausted yet, I decide to do a quick 3km run. Still in my wet yoga tights, possibility of chaffing very high, I throw on a dry tee and get on with it.

This is awesome. So hungry I try not to do much for the rest of the Saturday until dinner time at 06:30.

Afraid of the scale I know the VA scales are accurate and have been monitoring the weight because of water retention, water weight loss and empty tummy.

I am pleased to report the subject weighs in at 46.5kg!!

I don't care if its water weight or the fact that my last real meal was last night.

Lets see if it shoots up in the next few days.

A more accurate measurement still needs to take place, along with photographs, next Sunday.

Day 20 Eat

Fruit salad to break my fast with:

dates, strawberries, 1 plum, 1/3 pear, 1/2 banana, almonds and fat free yoghurt + honey

Yumolla

Chef Pon's egg fried rice (ignore word "fried")

Sweet + sour calamari

Entire bag of Chuckles

1 Cappucino

Eat score

3/10 Pot Belly Pig

Thinking that the fruit would curb the sweet tooth, I insisted on the sweet and sour calamari at dinner, hoping that would satisfy my sweet tooth, I persisted on finishing off a bag of Chuckles, solo, around 12:00. Smart.

Day 21

Play Run

Off for a run on the promenade. Sunblock, summer running gear, ocean on the left, friend by my side and new running shoes we head off for a 30min 5km. This is what Summer in Spring is all about and its not even September yet. Last stretch we sprint and I push myself to 207bpm, not bad I tell myself, even if its for a couple of seconds...

Sea Point Promenade

Play Squash

50min of squash is entertaining as I'm being mocked around the court or poor focus and bad co-ordination :( I still manage to reach targets and scorch 361kcal.

Day 21 Eat

Fruit salad to break my fast with:

dates, strawberries, 1 plum, 1/3 pear, 1/2 banana, almonds and fat free yoghurt + honey

Roasted butternut, feta, beetroot, caramelized onions, pomegranate pips and rocket salad

1 X cappuccino

Eat Score

5/10

Briosso @ Col Cachios