I'm pretty new to yoga, though I've been wanting to learn for quite awhile. I found a book at McKays(a super fantastic used book warehouse here where the books are super cheap and they have a huge selection--off topic but I love them) for 25cents (didn't I say cheap?) called the 28-Day Yoga Exercise Plan. It's from the seventies, with black and white pictures of the same girl with long hair and an impossibly tiny waist in a skintight flesh colored jumpsuit doing each move. It has a few exercises for each day, and you do them individually to get the feel of the move and there's a practice plan for each day that combines the moves into a workout, then a "thought for the day" about yoga, the body, health, the mind, etc.
Anyway, I'm finding it really easy to follow, though I'm only on Day 3. After three solid days of yoga, I am SORE! I'm also doing ab planks as a major part of my exercise every day. The combination is apparently already having good results, as within a day of each other, my boyfriend and my grandmother both remarked that I was getting "trimmer."
Does anyone else do yoga? What are your favorite/most beneficial poses? Do you have a specific time of day you feel is best for doing yoga? and should I be this sore??
feels good (I'm much more flexible, I can already tell, but that may be due in part to the stretch trainer I've discovered at my gym. Precor stretch trainer--anyone used it? It stretched me out like a rubber band and let me feeling fabulous)
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