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5 Tips For Better Beach Yoga (Beginner Routine Included!)

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I’m in Maui, and I thought, hey! I should do some yoga by the beach! So I did. *gasp* *trumpets*

I’ve got some tips you might want to read, along with a simple routine for you to follow. If you’re not a yoga person, I wrote an article on why you should be!

Right after my yoga session, I also went running along the coast, and it was gorgeous. Such an amazing experience. And i had no idea I could get that much sand in my tennis shoes.

Anyways, here are the tips!

1. Bring a mat or a beach towel, or find a grassy spot.

As nice as it is to just be like the chick in the lovely stock image above and say I’m going to be one with nature and just do this yoga on the sand don’t. Downward dog is tough when the sand is caving in around your hands and feet, and 99% chance you’re going to get it in your eyes and under your nails and it’ll be gross (unless you’re truly a badass Yogi, then congrats because I don’t know how you do it.)

I was lucky enough to find a nice grassy hill by the water that was just as good, so I didn’t need a towel or a mat.

2. Plan a routine — and then do what you want.

It’s nice to have a routine to start with, and then kinda do what you feel like. If you know a few moves you want to do to start off with, then you can really just enjoy the sound of the waves as you move through a simple vinyasa flow or a few asana poses, and then just improvising from there.  [Read more…]

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Featured Workout: Total Body Sculpt, Weight Loss Edition

The workouts and stuff I recommend on here are things that have helped me lose weight. I refuse to recommend anything I haven’t tried for myself and actually seen results.

WHY I LOVE GILAD

Two reasons. One: he has an awesome Italian accent, and two: He does not waste your time. No, “all right, kiddos! First, pick up your weights. Watch me. See?” It’s “BURN ALL OF ZE FAT!” from minute 1. This is like a 22 minute version of P90x: it’s intense, you’ll feel sore afterwards, but it is so worth it.

WHY HE WILL HELP YOU LOSE WEIGHT

Gilad’s total body sculpt also utilizes some of the weight loss techniques that are vital to seeing results, like circuit training. In circuit training, you’re going from one exercise to another so quickly that time flies. None of this “let’s do 100,000 reps!” I see so often in celebrity workout videos. You do five of Gilad’s lunges, and you feel the burn right away. Because cardio is paired with strength training, your calorie burn is through the roof. You also continue to burn calories after the workout ends– isn’t circuit training great?

WHY HE WON’T BREAK YOUR BANK

You can pick and choose which episodes you want from Amazon at around a $2. Sometimes they play re-runs of his workouts on Fit TV (which got renamed to like Discovery Health or something lame like that) but Amazon has a pretty awesome selection, and my favorite episode is the one I’ve linked to on here. I’m an Amazon Affiliate, which means if you click on the link to buy Gilad’s, I get part of the profit, and at no extra cost to you.

It’s a great workout, one of my favorites, and I’d recommend it to everyone who doesn’t have much time to exercise!

From Amazon.com: “Gilad weaves the best of strength training, circuit training, cardio bursts, kickboxing and martial arts into a one-of-a-kind routine that works your whole body. Circuit training using light to medium hand weights and buttocks exercises are featured.”