Yyoga - Highgate

I got the free Yyoga pass from Lululemon. It is a special promotion from Yyoga and Lululemon. It is a free pass to go to any Yyoga locations during Feb 12 28, 2010. I thought it is a great idea because I get free yoga for 17 days. After I thought about it, it is a challenge to go with all the Olympic festivities.

Today is a day between going to Olympic festivities for me. I went to the Yyoga at Highgate (http://www.yyoga.ca/our-centers/highgate). I took the Yhot class at 8:30 pm. It was a hot yoga class. I have never been to a hot yoga class before. I have thought that I wasn't strong enough to go to a hot yoga class. After taking the class, I still don't think I am ready for the next one anytime soon. There was about 50 people in the class, which made it a bit hotter. I was just sitting down and I was starting to sweat. Doing the various yoga poses made it more difficult because it was so hot. It was hard for me to breathe with the hot air. My instructor was a young man. He doesn't look like a yoga teacher. He had a mohawk and tattoos. He looked more like a rocker than a yoga teacher. But he was good. He was patient. Because the class was so full, he didn't have a spot to teach. He walked around and made sure we did the poses correctly. There was so peaceful and relaxing music. The class has a full wall length mirror for you to see if you are doing your poses correctly. I was at the back of the class so the mirror wasn't helpful for me. By the end of the class, I was totally drenched in sweat and felt drained.

Day 23; The gym - elliptical

I didn't have any plans tonight. I aimed to go to the gym for an hour after work. I went to the Mount Pleasant Community Center. It is the new community center on Kingsway (where it splits with Main). The fitness center is very small. Because I went after work, it was filled with people who just finished work. I went there once before and there was a line up to use the cardio machines at 5:30pm. I made sure I was there early enough to avoid the line ups.

I spent 30 minutes on an elliptical machine. I have never used an elliptical machine before. It was exciting for me. It was a newer machine so it had so many buttons. After 15 mins I was already getting tired. I had to push myself to finish off the 30mins. After my workout, I was tired but I felt like a ball of energy.

The Mount Pleasant Community Center is a 5 min drive from my work. It is so convenient for me. Hopefully I can make going to the gym a more regular occurrence.