As someone who grew up playing competitive sports, I naturally transitioned into picking up a higher intensity fitness lifestyle upon entering adulthood. Like stretching exercises done at the start and end of workouts, I found yoga slow and boring – why waste precious workout time moving so slowly when we could be doing higher intensity exercises to burn more calories? My warped measure of a good workout was based solely on the number of calories burned, how sweaty I got, and how breathless I felt – measures I previously thought only a HIIT workout could satisfy. Over the past few weeks of yoga training, I have slowly come to appreciate this discipline, and the level of strength and control it entails. I’m now a convert (and dare I say I enjoy this more than my HIIT classes) and enjoy practising and tracking my own yoga progress!
Celynn
200 Hour YTT Feb-May’21
