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  • ufatbasted
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    March 4, 2009 at 10:13 pm
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    in reply to: How much does everyone sweat? #4366

    When I move my hands over my head sweat flies off them.
    My shorts are soaked and dripping and the towel on my mat is soaked.

    I’ve become very careful with my hand movements to avoid spraying those around me with sweat!!

    I’ve had the same experience. My observation is that it depends almost entirely on humidity. I’ve had dry classes at 106 deg and barely left an outline of my body on the towel. OTOH there have been cooler (~95 deg) high humidity classes that had sweat pouring off and soaked my towel. In either case I seem to lose about 4 pounds of water so I think it is more a case of how much can evaporate into the air.

    BTW 4 pounds is about a 1/2 gallon. I use that as a guide as to how much I need to replace.

    Take Care,
    Lee

    Hey I’ve never had a dry class. I sweat walking to the train in freezing temps. Just the way I am.
    I weighed myself yesterday morning. Then did a weight work out and 30 min of cardio in the afternoon and took a hot yoga class at night. Dropped 5 lbs after the yoga class.
    I would guess most of the weight drop happened in yoga as I ate and drank lots of fluids before and after my afternoon work outs.

    ufatbasted
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    March 4, 2009 at 2:01 am
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    in reply to: How much does everyone sweat? #4361

    I sweat more than any man I’ve met. Even though my screen name is ufatbasted I’m actually fairly thin. Not sure if that matters.
    In the classes I’m dripping before the first breathing set. I’ve stopped wiping my sweat and am noticing that I have so much sweat running down my body it runs down my arms and onto my hands. When I move my hands over my head sweat flies off them.
    My shorts are soaked and dripping and the towel on my mat is soaked.
    I’ve never weighed myself before and after class

    I’ve become very careful with my hand movements to avoid spraying those around me with sweat!!

    ufatbasted
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    February 7, 2009 at 4:58 am
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    in reply to: Bulletproof Yoga #4187

    I’m a newbie but I feel one should not be mocked in class by an instructor. Also the comment to look at the person next to you and do the same, how are you to know that that person is in the pose?

    I’m loving this hot yoga but if I feel I’m abused by an instructor I’m walking out of the class and will make the owner of the studio aware of the situation.
    In my studio not everyone in the front row gets every pose right

    ufatbasted
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    January 8, 2009 at 8:33 pm
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    in reply to: Newbie stiffist guy in the world #4018

    As an update. I’m so spent from my hot yoga class at night that the next afternoon my body is telling me not to lift or run. I’ve taken 8 classes the last 10 days and my body is really feeling it. I had planned to go to the gym during lunch today for a weight workout. realized in the AM that the intense workout I wanted to do was out of the question
    figured I’d tone it down and ended up not going at all. My body was telling me no no no.

    The Yoga has my body feeling good sore and my muscles feel kinda pumped.
    FWIW I sweat buckets. The towel on top of my mat is soaked with sweat before we even get to the floor. I’m dripping on it during the first breathing excercise.
    It seems when I take 3 days of HY classes in a row the 4th day I’m a little out of it. I’ve been drinking tons of water, am now also drinking 2 glasses of OJ a day. I also added bananas and dried figs and apricots to the 3 pieces of fruit I eat daily.

    I’m taking today off from everything!

    ufatbasted
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    January 5, 2009 at 2:04 am
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    in reply to: Newbie stiffist guy in the world #3996

    I’ve decided to commit to Hot Yoga 4-5 days a week and still do one cardio boot camp, one cardio kick boxing and one weight day a week I’ll start with yoga 4 days a week and see if I build to one day a week doing cardio kick in the AM and yoga in the early evening. When I need a day off it most likely will not be a yoga day.

    If the yoga takes over and I end up doing more of that so be it. I must say I feel fantastic after doing hot yoga 6 of the past 7 days. I see improvement in some poses and even got a “very good” after a pose from the instructor today.

    If my workout plan my results in yoga withdrawal I’ll adjust the schedule and ad more yoga

    Thanks everyone for the helpful input

    ufatbasted
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    January 3, 2009 at 1:41 am
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    in reply to: Newbie stiffist guy in the world #3989

    LoveTheHeat and Gabrielle

    Thanks for the input. I’m not sure if I’m ready for just yoga for 30 days.
    That said my goal is to keep my cardio and strength and increase my flexibility.

    The idea of doing just hot yoga does appeal to me but the logistics of it may prove difficult.
    Right now I do my workouts at a gym across from my office during my lunch hour. The Yoga studio I have been going to is near my home and has no morning classes. The have two evening classes a 5:30 and an 8:00. They do not have a Friday class that I can make
    I’ve been going the past few days as my office is closed until Jan 5th.

    I would only be able to make the 8 on the 4 weekdays which means I would not be able to eat with my family. I really want to use the studio by my house so I can go on weekends too.
    I guess I need to work out in my head and with my family me being at dinner but not eating Mon-Thurs for the month of January. Of course I’ll eat when the class is over.

    FWIW Just took my 4th class in the last 5 days and see some improvement. I feel GREAT!

    ufatbasted
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    January 1, 2009 at 2:31 am
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    in reply to: Newbie stiffist guy in the world #3985

    Thanks for the reply.

    Just got out of my third class and was able to breathe better through it and was able to extend a bit on a couple poses

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