AS a six-day-a-week exerciser who favors high-intensity workouts, I consider the seventh day enough rest. But it turns out that moving even more might be a smarter way to let my muscles recover and help me to push myself harder in the gym. New York City has several workout options for people like me who sometimes overdo it. These classes say they help …
Katrina Garnett began western-style horseback riding while growing up in Brisbane, Australia. Starting at age 11, she competed locally in barrel races and gymkhanas, which are country horse shows. “It’s a passion that was planted in me as a young girl,” she says. “Horses were a big deal in our heritage in Australia.”
The story of yoga in America, as many journalists have pointed out, is the story of assimilation, diversification and, more recently, commodification. Although there are many devoted students of yoga, who regard it as an exacting physical and spiritual discipline, there are also many trendy yoga consumers today, who regard it simply as another form of exercise like spinning or Pilates, as a hip new way to stay fit and lower stress…
IN mid-July, while the oil slick in the Gulf and the Goldman Sachs settlement were dominating the news, a blog named YogaDork had a worldwide exclusive.
Are you detail oriented? If yes, steer toward Pilates. Do you like to move quietly and observe the world around you? If yes, steer toward yoga. Do you like a more choreographed workout? If yes, steer toward Pilates. Do you like to explore poses? If yes, steer toward yoga. Were you an athlete when you were younger? If yes, steer toward Pilates. Do you have an excellent sense of balance? If yes, steer toward yoga…
A few years ago, the pop singer Sting confided to an interviewer that a specific yoga asana, or posture, had enabled him to have sexual intercourse with his wife, the star of a line of yoga videos, for as long as eight hours at a time.
Whether you spent yesterday doing heavy lifting around the house or partaking in a pickup game, you probably woke up today feeling as if you’d been through the garbage truck compactor. “When you’re under physical stress, your body releases hormones that clog up your lymph vessels in your overused muscles,” explains John Douillard, M.D., director of …
Maybe you’re trying yoga in pursuit of the reputed yoga butt. “Don’t look for results the first time,” says Mark Blanchard of Power Progressive Yoga in Los Angeles quite bluntly. “Muscles will get worked, calories will be burned.” Patience and persistence are the keys, ladies. Also important: Remember that when you can no longer maintain the integrity of a pose, that’s when it’s…
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