And by sweet I mean less strenuous — based on these findings at University of Calgary: too long and too intense a warm up for sprinting, cycling or speed skating, for example, may tire you out too much. This University of Calgary study found that a shorter warmup of 15 minutes at lower intensity (compared to 50 minutes at high intensity) resulted in less muscle fatigue and 6.2 percent higher peak power input.
Leave a Comment May 30, 2011
Yoga enthusiasts, enter to win one of five Passport to Pranas that Health & Swellness has to give away!
If you live in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria or Winnipeg,enter to win a Passport, which is one of the best yoga deals around.
Not familiar with Passport to Prana? Passport to Prana allows you to try one class in each of the participating studios in your city–and if you don’t win one through Health & Swellness, I highly recommend buying one for $20 to $30 (price varies per city).
Passport to Prana in Toronto is new and improved, too. The Passport is now good for twelve months starting from the time you activate it online. (If you live in the other Canadian cities, your program still expires by a certain date for your particular city, BUT if you win a Passport, you can hold onto it until the new annual session begins in your city and activate it then as the 12-month rolling expiry date will be coming into effect in these other cities, too!).
There are three ways you can enter (enter all three ways to increase your chances of winning!):
(1) Enter by emailing your name, address and phone number to healthandswellness@gmail.com (please put Passport to Prana in the subject line).
(2) Leave a comment on this post about why you should win one of these Passport to Pranas.
(3) Tweet a link to this giveaway (you must include the @healthswellness handle to ensure I see your tweet!). (you can always simply just retweet one of my tweets mentioning the giveaway, that counts as your Twitter entry, too!)
This giveaway closes at 12PM on Tuesday, May 17 , 2011, and is open to Canadian residents only. The five winners will be randomly chosen, notified by email, and announced on Health & Swellness.
12 Comments May 10, 2011
Late post, yet again–too much running, I tell ya! I missed last week’s clinic (again) due to work. The scheduled guest speaker was Christine Felstead; I don’t have any notes from the night as my running buddy had to skip the clinic as well.
Although I missed the clinic, I do have Christine’s DVD, Christine Felstead’s Yoga for Runners. I’ve never done the DVD, so I figured this was a good time to finally try it (plus, my left calf muscle feel twinge-y during yesterday’s run, which kinda freaked me out big time).
It’s broken down into four sections: Foundation, Lower Back, Hamstrings and Hips. Today, I decided to try Foundation. This 10-minute section featured conscious breathing, equal standing, cross-legged sitting, hero pose and legs up the wall–and I found myself feeling nice and zen from it, and wanted to do a little more so I decided to try the Hamstrings section as well.
BTW, you need a yoga strap for the Hamstrings section so I grabbed my pink Jogi strap and seven minutes later, my hamstrings and calves feel less tight already.
Since I never stretch (bad, bad, bad, I know!), I’m going to try to complete at least one section of the DVD after my runs. I’d be crushed to not run in my upcoming half-marathons (I’ve now got two races in May!) so it’s time to get more serious with it all and do what I can to remain injury-free.
Leave a Comment April 11, 2011