Muscles

Ann on April 6th, 2013

The other day on the radio I heard about a new study, which recently came out saying you shouldn’t stretch before exercise. I guess I had never given this much thought. I don’t normally stretch before I exercise. But whether I am spinning, practicing yoga or in a body conditioning class we start slow and [...]

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Ann on August 7th, 2012

It’s a good thing I pre-wrote some posts over the weekend in anticipation of a busy week. Between work, working on the shuttle bus on the way home, coming home and working, getting exercise in, visiting friend’s cat while she is away, being dressed suitably for work each day and still eating healthy I really [...]

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Ann on July 10th, 2012

Breathing is important. In order to live we have to breathe, right? I love to share things I learn in yoga. I feel like I am always learning something new about yoga, my practice and my body. Months ago in Vickie’s class we learned about breathing into our intercostal muscles. I wrote about this new [...]

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Ann on May 24th, 2012

As I have mentioned in recent posts work has been exhausting and overwhelming lately. So today after work I treated myself to a massage. I have been going to Bellissima Day Spa for seven years. And probably for the past 3-4 years Thanh has been taking care of me. And Thanh does an awesome job [...]

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Ann on December 15th, 2011

This will be a short post as I am tired and well, just bleh. Tuesday night Jenn and I did some weight work on our back and shoulders (among other stuff). Yesterday I worked from home so I attended the Power Vinyasa yoga class at the studio in my neighborhood. Naushon really had us focus [...]

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Ann on December 12th, 2011

      I took Baxter’s Monday night Hatha class. Normally I take Baxter’s Wednesday night class. But I have a work team dinner this Wednesday. And I missed last Wednesday’s class. Tonight we focused on knees, placement of feet, ankles, hamstrings and calves. Baxter reminded us to be careful if we are prone to hyperextend–too much [...]

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Ann on October 13th, 2011

I really didn’t want to exercise today. But with the way I have been eating lately … Today was a busy, but productive day at work. I had a lot of meetings. But I also managed to get a good amount of work done. I was trying to catch up on a few e-mails when [...]

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Ann on October 11th, 2011

Today I debated on if I should do my regular Tuesday exercise routine on the spin bike (and if time permits, weights and abs) or switch it up a bit. I decided to try something different. We have three regular ellipticals in the work gym and one “crazy” one: it’s a Precor Adaptive Motion Trainer. [...]

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Ann on September 15th, 2011

Wow, I was feeling yesterday’s gym class today. My butt, legs and arm sockets? (I guess it’s part of the pectoral muscles) were sore today. It was a pretty busy day in the office today. I had to keep myself on track and get a lot done with the goal of taking the 4:15 shuttle [...]

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Ann on June 15th, 2010

My abs class was on Saturday and today is Tuesday … and my abs are still sore. Today it only hurts when I laugh, cough or sneeze. But man. My whole entire ab area is sore–never had that before. I looked up a sketch of the muscle ab area, click if you are interested. This [...]

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