Thursday - Yoga day

 One day I thought that it would be fun to do yoga at the park where I usually walk. Today I did surya namaskar 12 times as I missed doign yoga at home. After that I did few of the seated poses. Most of the were new to me. I wrapped it with some pranayama and Dakshina murthy stotram. There was a light breeze. With each pose, when I would close eyes, it felt like I had been transported to a different world.

dirty omad 2024

 8/14-16 --- tea in the morning-- apple 2 sessions 5:30

on 8/15-- during yoga could do chaturanga as stomach felt light

8/19-8/20 -- same as above 

8/21 - only tea in the morning-- dinner at 4:30 -- may be thats why was able to push through

2 weeks before gluconeogenesis

8/22

8/25 - ragi and jowar dosa-- controls weight.. no weekend gain.

8/26 - Didnt finish my tea in the morning. Towards 3:30, being precoccupied with work, realised that I could wait till 5:30

8/29 - went for blood test, since starting the day with fasting for the test,e xtended it and had green tea in the morning and black tea with 1 creamer in the afternoon with a chipotle chicken bowl for dinner

9/1 -- Had boiled some jowar flour. It is hard to make tortillas with it. It requires lot of skill. I have seen my grandmom prepare it. I realised that it can be had along with curry in boiled format too. 

How to reach your calorie goals

 I had a calorie goal of 600. Sometimes I get to 400 with a workout an d awalk and then another major workout seems like a tall order. SOmetimes it is easy to fit a half an hour elliptical and that does it. But today I tried a different tack. I had walked a bit early in the morning upto 100 calories waiting for the tea to boil. I fit in an aerobic workout upto 200 calories. Towards the afternoon I thought why not slice the calories goal into hourly bits. That worked. 

A 2 hour walk?

 I walked 45 min on Monday. 1 and 1/2 hour yesterday and wondered if I could push it to 2 hours today. I alos chose to walk up and down a tiny slope. This defintiely did tire me. I was rationing the water bottle. After 1 and 1/2 hour, I had to quit the slope thing and just walk. Love walking in the grass barefoot.

P90X real round 2

 I kicked off cardio on Sunday. While I was thinking if I should do Insanity or P90X. In the middle of the week, universe understood my conundrum and sent a SUV sized answer with P90X on the back of it and teamazfitness and a UBFIT2 nameplate. In the past situations with universe signals have caused me heartache but this is the right direction.

On 7/17 - 98 min of walk

7/18 - YogaX - felt good

7/19

I am trying to achieve what I did P90X round 1. I am happy abput some of the notes that I have written down - like what caused em to start it and what were the takeaways.

This time around I am focusing on fiber - love chia seeds 3tbsp of it has 10g of fiber. 

I was having my curated oatmeal for breakfast with hemp seeds, pumpkin powder, walnut powder for a long time and then suddenly stopped it one day. This time around, I should remember to add few nuts and dry fruits to make it more palatable.

Plyometric cardio

7/14 -  plyometric cardio feels so good

exercise induced rhinitis

P90X

Week 1:

• Monday: Fitness Test
• Tuesday: Plyometric Cardio Circuit
• Wednesday: Cardio Power & Resistance
• Thursday: Cardio Recovery
• Friday: Pure Cardio
• Saturday: Plyometric Cardio Circuit
• Sunday: Rest

7/15 - cardio power and resistance

felt great.

Cardio recovery and insane abs

Insanity calendar schedule

upper body

Pure Cardio and all

plyo cardio

Week 2:

• Monday: Cardio Power & Resistance
• Tuesday: Pure Cardio
• Wednesday: Plyometric Cardio Circuit
• Thursday: Cardio Recovery
• Friday: Cardio Power & Resistance
• Saturday: Pure Cardio & Cardio Abs
• Sunday: Rest

Week 3:

• Monday: Fitness Test
• Tuesday: Plyometric Cardio Circuit
• Wednesday: Pure Cardio & Cardio Abs
• Thursday: Cardio Recovery
• Friday: Cardio Power & Resistance
• Saturday: Plyometric Cardio Circuit
• Sunday: Rest

Week 4:

• Monday: Pure Cardio & Cardio Abs
• Tuesday: Cardio Power & Resistance
• Wednesday: Plyometric Cardio Circuit
• Thursday: Cardio Recovery
• Friday: Pure Cardio & Cardio Abs
• Saturday: Plyometric Cardio Circuit
• Sunday: Rest

Recovery Week:

• Monday: Core Cardio & Balance
• Tuesday: Core Cardio & Balance
• Wednesday: Core Cardio & Balance
• Thursday: Core Cardio & Balance
• Friday: Core Cardio & Balance
• Saturday: Core Cardio & Balance
• Sunday: Rest

Week 5:

• Monday: Fitness Test & MAX Interval Circuit
• Tuesday: MAX Interval Plyo
• Wednesday: MAX Cardio Conditioning
• Thursday: MAX Recovery
• Friday: MAX Interval Circuit
• Saturday: Max Interval Plyo
• Sunday: Rest

Week 6:

• Monday: MAX Cardio Conditioning
• Tuesday: MAX Interval Circuit
• Wednesday: MAX Interval Plyo
• Thursday: MAX Recovery
• Friday: MAX Cardio Conditioning & Cardio Abs
• Saturday: Core Cardio & Balance
• Sunday: Rest

Week 7:

• Monday: Fitness Test & MAX Interval Circuit
• Tuesday: MAX Interval Plyo
• Wednesday: MAX Cardio Conditioning & Cardio Abs
• Thursday: MAX Recovery
• Friday: MAX Interval Circuit
• Saturday: Core Cardio & Balance
• Sunday: Rest

Week 8:

• Monday: MAX Interval Plyo
• Tuesday: MAX Cardio Conditioning & Cardio Abs
• Wednesday: MAX Interval Circuit
• Thursday: Core Cardio & Balance
• Friday: MAX Interval Plyo
• Saturday: Max Cardio & Cardio Abs
• Sunday: Rest

cardio circuit

Build series

 Started day 1 of this 6 week build series

It has next 10 week build series 2.0

I am now adding 2 to more cups of vegetables each day.

Advanced yoga

After 33min of vinyasa yoga, I felt the need to stop but I wanted to do some light yoga or work on a pose. I did want to work on a pose. I have been learning a lot of new poses. In the vinyasa yoga, I learned about  fallen triangle pose. yesterday I learnt about parsva dhanurasana and salabhasana variation b in Hatha yoga Level 3.

 I started with pranayama. I did sheetali pranayama for the first time today. STudies have shown it to be as effective as medication for mild hypertension.

Tree pose itself is hard and then there is the bending tree pose.

There is so much to learn in yoga. If you know the main poses, then there is the variation poses.

Tapout XT

 Started week 1 - missed yoga day still made up with some surya namaskar

for legs and back I chose Tapout Legs and Back with the longer band with handles. I should dig out the other bands by the bext week. Loved the dynamic march jump.

Tapout Calendar

Day 1 - Combat Core was fun.

Day 2 - Looking forward to strength and upper. Took out my bands too.

Ultimate abs

Its always fun to try new stuff.

Tapout XT2

P90X and tapout Xt hybrid

today's exercise

20 min indoor jog followed by  full body dumbbell exercise 

Jujitsu

Enjoyed this full body jujitsu training.