![]() ![]() Knowing your imbalances and working to correct them helps avoid future injuries. Which hip is tighter? Which calf is weaker? More importantly, why? Yoga showcases the imbalances you have in your body. Lesson 4: We both balance better on our left legs than our right. We made progress much more quickly by focusing for two weeks on these daily yoga workouts as a couple. As it turns out, I had been doing downward dog all wrong.įor me, I was able to clear my mind and focus more than ever on rhythmic breathing. The pointers from the trainers were helpful. I’m in control moving from Warrior 3 to Warrior 2. I even started to add a tricep push-up before and after my one-legged upward dog. Slowly but surely, I felt pride in having my best yoga practice yet. Lesson 3: I achieved yogi status quickly. What’s more, is we completed them with much more clarity and creativity. After, we were much better at focusing on only the essential things that we needed to complete that day. It’s magic.īefore our scheduled couples yoga workout, our minds would be buzzing about our daily to-do list. Lesson 2: There’s no better feeling than the calmness after a yoga workout.Įveryone should experience daily sun salutations and how good it feels to have a thorough, regular stretch. You know when you’re unable to maintain normal breathing. By the way, if you’re over the age of 30, do not stretch too hard. Through our partner yoga practice, we learned to take it easy, listen to our bodies, and be patient with our progress. We would get antsy and push too deep into stretches when we shouldn’t. We would hold a pose a few seconds less than we should. Yoga teaches awareness, and we became aware of how much we rush around. Lesson 1: Doing something hard takes patience. Long story short, after completing our 14 days of yoga workouts, Alex and I remain consistent with couples yoga.ĭuring our two-week crash course, Alex learned the following lessons about couple’s yoga for beginners. That’s a sure way to quickly experience the benefits of couples yoga. Instead of toe-dipping, commit to yoga 3-7 times weekly for 2-4 weeks. In our experience, a yoga crash course is the best way for beginners to develop a long-term yoga practice. Since she had very little experience practicing yoga, we created a 14-day yoga workout calendar to follow together.Īnd so, we began our partner yoga crash course. ![]() His list of physical (but mostly mental) feats is staggering, like running a 100-mile, 24-hour race without even training. His mantra was, “Do something you hate every day.”Īlex agreed that for her, this meant doing yoga every day. She was telling me this while I was reading the highly inspirational biography of David Goggins, who is a former Navy SEAL, ultra-athlete, pull-up world champion, and debatably the toughest man alive. For something that seems so “go-with-the-flow,” zen, and bendy, my type-A personality and tight hamstrings always get in the way.” “My engineering brain understands the physical and mental benefits of yoga, but that doesn’t mean I enjoy it. For her, it didn’t seem important because she could run a marathon without a single ache or pain. I was sold on the benefits of yoga, but Alex was not. Then you rope in the second party: your partner That was a decade ago, and I have been a convert ever since. This one routine cured me of the nagging injuries and chronic pain that I had been experiencing for years. Because the yoga routine was only 30-minutes, I actually did it every week. Again, I was halted because of a pulled hamstring.Įventually, I started a workout program that included a temptingly short yoga routine (it was P90X3). Shortly after, I had to stop due to knee pain. Then, I started weightlifting. But, I always skipped yoga day because it bored me and reminded me that my balance and flexibility were laughable.īolstered by the success of consistent exercise, I started running again. My fitness took a turn for the better when I started following professional workout programs. Therefore, I constantly injured myself and felt physically old. Still, I refused to give up soccer and skiing. My horrible diet paired with minimal exercise and nine hours daily in an office chair brought pain and lethargy. Let’s just say, pizza was its own food group. I was very unhealthy during the years after college. At the beginning, we both strongly disliked yoga. If we had to choose only one form of exercise for the rest of our lives, it would be yoga. But, it wasn’t always that way.
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