How Quarantine helped cultivate my yoga habit

I have been lifting weights for years.

  • I loved everything about lifting weights, from the feeling of a pump, to the way I looked, and even just being in the gym with my buddies in the locker room or my personal trainer.

However, when lockdown began, and all of the gyms closed, I had to find another way to get an effective workout. I have a few dumbbells at home, but I honestly wasn’t feeling it, and I wasn’t getting the intensity that I was used to. One day, after a Tiger King binge, I decided I had to get up and move my body, and I saw on instagram that one of my friends was about to start streaming a zoom yoga class. During the workout, I felt kind of awkward and uncomfortable, but I felt so great afterward. My muscles were stretched and pumped, and I was dripping in sweat. Before I knew it, I had been doing yoga every day for months. I had lost some muscle mass, but I had also lost a lot of the extra fat that I was carrying. Once a lot of people became cavinated, I decided to get back in the gym and lift some weights again. After doing yoga for so long I feel like my entire range of motion was brand new, and I was working muscles that I never have before. While I do enjoy lifting weights, I don’t do it as often as I used to, because I don’t like being sore for yoga. The combination of weightlifting and yoga has left me feeling better than ever, as well as helped me cultivate an exercise habit that I actually enjoy.

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