Yoga Eye Opener

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 Talk about an eye opener !! When I first started on my weight loss journey - I was nearly 130 lbs heavier than I am right now.  When my trainer started to incorporate boxing - I simply fell in love (with boxing, not the trainer)    My app doesn't have boxing as an option, so I always choose kickboxing - and maybe one day I'll incorporate my legs, but right now I'm still learning all the combinations, punches, ducks and defense - so much more to it than what I originally thought, and I have enjoyed every single boxing session ever since.  I used to be able to burn 800 calories in an hour no problem, but the fitter I got, the harder it's been to get above the 500 calorie burn unless I'm erging a really tough piece, or boxing.  Not even 50 minutes of boxing produced a 620 burn.  And I was most likely smiling 99% of the time (sometimes when we get going faster, I've gotten clipped, never hard, never intentional, but it does wipe the smile off my face for .01 seconds)   I've started doing yoga this month for a few reasons:  My trainers wife is an excellent yoga teacher and has tried to teach me previously, let me know the nearby yoga studio was doing a special - $50 for the first month - so I signed right up.   Second,my shoulder has been giving me issues for nearly a month now so I needed to add something into the mix to make up for what I can't do at the gym, and third, my trainer always tells me to stretch, and I never do.   

When I saw the calorie burn from a one hour class (don't mind the total time in the photo - I forgot to stop the watch) was the same as boxing ... what an eye opener.  So tonight I'm going to my first power yoga for beginners class with the intention of actually learning how to do things properly, without having to look around to see what everyone else is doing.  The hardest part for me?  Wearing the mask while trying to work out - it gets drenched in sweat and really, really hard to breath through !!  

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