Thursday and Friday

[muck_a_luck]

Yesterday evening, did some strength training while watching Bones.

Strength training:

Leg Press: 3 sets, 10 x 110 lbs
Step Up: 2 sets, 10 x 30 lbs
Static Lunge, raised back leg: 2 sets, 20 lbs
Single Point Dumbbell Row: 2 sets, 10 x 20 lbs
Plank (on the floor): 2 sets, 60 seconds each.

Friday morning: Yoga Shakti: Lunar Flow through the Twists and Forward bends. Approx 35 minutes.

Chandra Namaskara is so difficult for me. I don't think Lunge Backbend (whatever the heck its right name is) is really supposed to be a balance pose, but I tip over from it almost as badly as I do from Revolved Triangle. I am starting to wonder if some of my problems with balance come from the fact that I am extremely duck footed. My feet turn out at about a 45 degree angle when I'm naturally standing. My college roomie used to (I think fondly) refer to my walk as a duck waddle. I am considering adjusting some of the yoga poses, as well as some of the lunge/balance stuff in my strength training, so that rather than carefully placing my foot pointing toes forward like a normal person, maybe I should turn my toes out, as is normal for me. It seems to help when I remember to do it, at least some. But then I worry whether doing that will be bad for my knees? Or whether trying to do it like a normal person is already bad for my knees?

Whatever.

Comments

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

my balance improved monumentally after I used Natasha Rizopoulos' Step by Step one and two yoga instruction dvds. She is really big on lining up heels or heels and arches depending on the position and it has worked wonders for me. Shiva does not actually talk about those specific line ups. You can find a few of her sessions on yogajournal's podcasts or vids. And netflix has it as well.

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Cool! Natasha's DVDs are on my list.

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Whereas I have knock-knees and pigeon toes. I found they got better with Pilates--focused muscular development can actually help.

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Interesting, because that is yet another thing I have wondered, though to date I haven't noticed much change. But my legs have been doing this for 38 years now. It may take more than a few months here and there of casual exercising to fix them.