Hi friends! A couple of weeks ago I talked about heated workouts, and I shared with you all that I'm not the biggest fan of them due to me being a baby about super warm rooms. Well, after publishing that post, I wound up using the last of my 5-class pass at that gym to try out one more heated workout: yoga sculpt! (source) I really only wound up doing the class because I really wanted to try yoga sculpt, and the gym only offers the class in heated rooms... so I found myself back in a sauna-like room working out once more! I discovered 2 things from taking the class: 1.) Yoga sculpt is fabulous, and 2.) I don't mind heated rooms if they're under a certain temperature. The instructor had the room at 85 degrees with 65 percent humidity, and I actually didn't feel like I was going ... [Read More]
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Let’s Get Sweaty! Heated Workouts: Yay or Nay?
Confession: I don't do well in the heat. If the temperature's cold, I'm usually fine with a blanket and a hot cup of tea, but what I don't like is being hot and sticky. This may be in part the reason that I'm living in SoCal, since I love being outdoors and the mild weather is so conducive to that. When I go back to Jersey in the summertime, where I was born and raised, I practically melt with the high humidity. It's not even that I've turned into a spoiled Californian. My body just has never done well in weather over 85 degrees. My house doesn't have air conditioning (which I recently found out is common in this area), and I actually have a heat paranoia. All windows and doors are opened and my ceiling fans are turned on first thing in the morning, for fear of getting hot and not ... [Read More]