Another good run yesterday. On a whim, I decided to jump up .2 mph to 7.2 mph. It was pretty tough, though I wonder how much of that was having run for 10 minutes the night before to try to encourage my buddy Dave to start using his Nike+iPod.
I also bumped up the weight on my chins (-45lbs), dips (-45lbs), and bench press (130lbs). Though I wasn’t able to hit a full 8 reps on the second set for any of them, I hope I’ll be able to by the end of the week.
Yoga
One of the items on my list to incorporate into my life is yoga. I’m horribly inflexible and my assumption is that yoga will improve that. Indeed, there’s a great Iyengar yoga centre near my home. However, one of the revelations from Born to Run, a book I’ll be reviewing in a subsequent post, is that doing yoga almost guarantees a running injury. Of course, in the book, the comment is mostly a throwaway, but it does bear thinking about.
The balance to this question, of course, is general healthfulness–I know that yoga will improve my health, though likely not as significantly as running. I know that yoga generally reduces injury, though perhaps not in someone who plans to run 2-3 week for the forseeable future.
Are there any runners out there who do yoga? What has been your experience?
1 Comment
September 30, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Good work on the increases. I wish I could offer advice on yoga, but I know nothing about it.
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