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Advice on balancing workouts?
Hi all. I know I’m not the only person with the problem of having way too many fitness activities I’m enthusiastic about. Pole is my priority these days, and I’ve settled on 3 2-hour sessions a week as optimal for me. The classes are a mix of advanced and multi-level and I tend to do a lot of strength based tricks, so resting my arms for a day in between helps my performance. I’m about to start aerial yoga classes, and I’m wondering if it makes sense to do that for an hour and a half two days a week, alternating with pole days. I’ve always found other types of yoga a relaxing compliment to pole, but I don’t know if aerial yoga uses more arm strength and would leave me without enough recovery between pole days. What do those of you who do aerial yoga think? And will the yoga alone be enough in terms of flexibility training or will I still need additional stretching time to increase my back, leg, and shoulder flexibility?
Recently, I’ve been taking a contemporary dance class and a flexibility class once a week, and I had been hoping to find time to restart cardio classes. But, some or all of those are going to have to go to fit in the aerial yoga. Ideally, I’d spend 6 hours a week poling, 3 on yoga/flexibility, 1 or 2 on dance, and 1 or 2 on cardio. But, since I live in a big city where none of these classes happen in the same place and I have to bike up to 30 minutes between each class, there is no way logistically to fit everything in. How do you all decide what to prioritize in addition to pole? I’m so torn!
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If you do a search you may find many threads with ideas for structuring your workouts.
I think it will depend on the type of aerial yoga class, if it’s not too trick heavy and does focus more on Yoga poses than it shouldn’t be too hard on the forearms. But it is something to be aware of. As for Flexibility and yoga, again it will depend on the type of class, you’ll be able to tell if a class is more focused on strength, flexibility or meditation and go from there. I would say that taking dance class can replace any extra cardio and as long as you dance, and not only work on tricks when you pole, pole is great cardio too.
I also have love for many things, so I rotate through and often choose what method I want for my strength work that week. My go to options are LIft weights, TRX trainer, or Pole. I just love to move!!! A spinkle in Hooping, aerial yoga, Lyra, yoga and dance!!
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Hi Veena, thanks for the advice. I’ll do some more searching in the archive. Your suggestion to find dance classes that double as cardio is a great one. Cheers!
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Don’t discount your bicycling as a cardio workout in itself! You don’t have to do cardio a whole hour (or more) at a time, bicycling 30 minutes to a class and 30 minutes back home is an hour of cardio! BOOM, cardio checked off the list!
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Hey Makasha, thanks! I wasn’t sure if urban biking would really work as cardio since you have the stop/start of the traffic lights. But, whenever I’m running late it turns into a series of sprints, so, maybe! You guys have reassured me that I can quit worrying about extra cardio and just concentrate on pole, yoga, and dance classes. That does simplify things! Cheers!
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