One of my goals for this week is to do my two classes a week with Kris, and to do yoga at home twice. Today is already Wednesday and I figured I would do it and get it out of the way. I can tell you that yesterday's new pose, a modified form of the Dancer really woke up some muscles in my legs and they were complaining mightily this morning. But I did not let that deter me from putting to use what I was learning.
I began with breathing and did some of the modified chair stretches we had been doing and then I did some of the standing ones. There were some stretches and poses I didn't remember completely, but I did everything I could remember. My legs maybe weren't as strong as they were yesterday, but I did see some balancing improvement for a few seconds. I am really encouraged. Balancing on one foot or rolling up onto my toes with the amount of weight I carry was not something I was even really willing to try. I am beginning to believe that anything is possible. Tomorrow I rest, let my legs recuperate in time to do another class with Kris on Friday.
Now on to do my walking goal. Before Christmas and during the Christmas season I was doing 5000 steps a day and any day I was out shopping I was getting to 6000, 7000, or more. When I got sick after Christmas those steps fell way down. And for some reason last week I was really hard pressed to get to 3000 steps. Well now that I am mostly over the congestion and coughing I decided it was time to get back to where I was at before. So I set the goal for this week to 5000 every day again. Well.. its Wednesday and I have yet to meet that goal. So I am going to push for it. Here I come, house laps!! Of course, it would help if I would remember the dang pedometer. It's an app on my phone and I have this horrible habit that if I take my phone out of my pocket for some reason, like-- to answer it... I set it down when I am done and forget to put it back in my pocket. I am working on that. It's really hard to figure out how many steps you have taken when there is no pedometer in use. And it isn't counting my steps when it is sitting on my desk.
The pedometer app I use and really like is accupedo for my droid. It's free, but you can also pay a small fee to get the pro version which gives you more functions. But with the free one, it tracks my steps, archives them so I can look back and see what I did yesterday and the day before that and last month... and that's all that matters to me. There are other functions in the free version too, but really I don't use them. I like free. :)
Well, since I have a way to go yet to meet my step goal, and I can't walk while I type, I am going to say good bye for now.
Namaste!
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