RE: / Kest: Sweat/Question

[Guest guest]

I loved 's question and this answer it very helpful. I'm still searching for a generic workout schedule and this one really helped. Thanks (and for posing an excellent group of questions)!

/ Kest: Sweat/Question

Yoga can be a strength "workout" but doesn't necessarily replace your weight training day either. Both formats are important. In addition, there are many kinds of yoga practices and schools all with different focus. Kest's happen to focus on strength and flexibility, but I've seen other power yoga/ashtanga yoga practices where you do one vinyasa after another in quick succession and you really work up a sweat! It's almost a cardio workout!

The Body Wisdom series has some stength poses too, but excels in the stretching and relaxing categories.

Bikram Yoga takes place in a hot room where you do a predetermined series of poses and sweat out toxins.

Kundalini Yoga is different still and I'm more sore from this kind of yoga than any other and it loosely reminds me of Callanetics, but I digress..

In my opinion a nicely balanced workout week might be

S "Challenging" Yoga

M Cardio

T Weight Training

W Cardio

Th Weight Training

F Cardio with gentle yoga for stretching

S Rest

You could add long walks and more gentle yoga in at any time because they are low impact and easy on the joints if done properly and have spirtual benefits as well as fat burning and flexibility benefits.

HTH!

[Guest guest]

Thanks, . Especially for your version of a balanced week. I've tried different dvds of most of the different forms - not Bikram, obviously (although suppose you could crank up the furnace). Too hot equals dizzy for me, anyway. :-)

Kundalini yoga just doesn't work for me. It's too much of a mind set change, I think. I find it odd, to say the least. Do you like it? What is your favourite type of yoga, since we are on the subject.

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Yoga can be a strength "workout" but doesn't necessarily replace your weight training day either. Both formats are important. In addition, there are many kinds of yoga practices and schools all with different focus. Kest's happen to focus on strength and flexibility, but I've seen other power yoga/ashtanga yoga practices where you do one vinyasa after another in quick succession and you really work up a sweat! It's almost a cardio workout!

The Body Wisdom series has some stength poses too, but excels in the stretching and relaxing categories.

Bikram Yoga takes place in a hot room where you do a predetermined series of poses and sweat out toxins.

Kundalini Yoga is different still and I'm more sore from this kind of yoga than any other and it loosely reminds me of Callanetics, but I digress..

In my opinion a nicely balanced workout week might be

S "Challenging" Yoga

M Cardio

T Weight Training

W Cardio

Th Weight Training

F Cardio with gentle yoga for stretching

S Rest

You could add long walks and more gentle yoga in at any time because they are low impact and easy on the joints if done properly and have spirtual benefits as well as fat burning and flexibility benefits.

HTH!