PiYo

Stupid me thought I would give my legs a break today by going to a PiYo class today during lunch. The class description called PiYo a unique, athletic blend of Pilates, Yoga, and more. My legs have been feeling a little tight lately, and I thought that sounded like a perfect light workout out after the last week, when I've been a little brutal on my legs with a couple of great, hard runs and no true rest days. 

I was thinking of PiYo as like a gentle stretching class, which I thought would help with the tightness in my legs.  Boy, was I wrong. 

Instead, it is a rather quick moving, highly choreographed strength training routine that uses your own body weight as resistance. How dare they! Don't they know that my body weight has crept up lately?  Don't they know that I haven't done strength training in months?  

Needless to say, I did a fair share of huffing and puffing and got nice and sweaty.  It seemed to concentrate on my legs, and I walked away a quivering mass of jello from the waist down.

I liked the class. It didn't make me feel as stupid as Yoga always does (I usually end up in a giggle fit in Yoga, because of how stupid I'm sure I look.  Although, I should note that I did giggle once or twice today too).  It didn't feel like a waste of time either, as I got red faced and sweaty by the end.  It was nice that it was only 45 minutes, so I could do some quick ab work and get changed/cleaned up before heading back to work.  

Have you ever done Pilates or Yoga or even better PiYo?  What do you think of it?  I've never been much of a fan of these types of workouts, but after today, I think I'll give PiYo another shot next week. It's fun to mix things up and test my body with new workouts.  See the video below for a PiYo example of the kind of workout we did today.





Oh and if you're wondering, I did pretty good on my Goals of the Week last week: I did seven workouts and drank all of my water every day but Saturday.


Goals this week include increasing my fruits and veggies to at least 3 servings a day and getting back into the swing of logging my calories on www.loseit.com.