Continued from our Retreat & Renew Daily Tip.
Melissa Wiliams, Freelance Writer | Co-Owner, Yoga Junction
The best thing you can do during the holidays is amp up your fitness routine. Between holiday parties, drinks, and stress, the holidays are not the time to slack off. But if you find you’re too pressed for time to think about your usual routine, try these exercises and classes to get your move on.
At Home:
1. Try Tony Horton’s brand-new P90X-inspired routines that are condensed into thirty-minute workouts.
2. Try the plank challenge. Every day for the next 30 days, go into a forearm plank. Try building up your endurance while maintaining your form. Your glutes should be drawn toward your heels, your belly pulled in toward your spine and your heart and shoulders soft. See if you can build up to 3 minutes by months’ end!
3. Try 5 energizing yoga postures: Including backbends, inversions, and balance postures. And, when we say energizing, we mean the good energizing not the 5 cups of espresso that leave you jittery and eventually in an even bigger slump.
4. Try Bikram or Hot Yoga at home by practicing Bikram’s 26 yoga poses and following these very important steps to prepare.
At the Gym:
1. This is the perfect time to try new workouts. Making your body work in different ways will require it to become more efficient. Usually an elliptical queen? Try the stair climber. Tend to go to Pilates? Try the Zumba class instead. Changing our energy is like changing the song on the radio. Listen to the same one too much and you tire and feel lackluster.
2. Cross train in intervals. Instead of hopping on a machine for 30-45 minutes, try mixing it up with 10 minutes on several machines. IE: Try the rowing machine to build strength in your upper body, then switch to the Stair Climber to tone your tush!
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