Tag: sweat

Up Your Reps

One of the first posts on this blog, Get Ye a Morning Ritual, shared a great morning workout by Master Shi Heng Yi.

I’ve been doing this for over a year now and have recently upped my reps to 36. Master Yi uses the Ayurvedic numbers, so I’ve followed this pattern.

Really feeling it in my arms/shoulders and tops of my thighs. But yeah, it’s all good and I’m happy and thankful that I can do it and of course I feel better after I do.

Here’s the original workout:

The only problem with the 36 reps is that it takes a while, and I often lose count. My husband asks me a question, or the dog sees me standing still and gives me his signals for backyard, walkie time, or breakfast time… and so I pause, forget where I’m at in my count ….

So today, I did an 18-rep workout, and then I did it again for a total of 36 reps. I think this is gonna stick.

Whatever your health situation, this is a great way to get moving in the morning, and move that lymphatic system!

Sweat

You need to sweat. Every day. Sweat cleans out your systems and allows toxins to leave your body.

I live in a cold place, and sweat is hard to come by for about half the year. So once a month or so, I treat myself to a 30-minute sauna.

It feels wonderful.

I usually have to take a break halfway through, just open the door and let some heat out and room-temp air in.

The place I go to has private rooms, some quite large to accommodate multiple people or a wheelchair or walker.

There are also rooms with cold plunge tubs. I haven’t tried that yet. 🥶

A really nice feature of this sauna studio is that they give you a cold towel with a menthol/camphor oil in it to wipe down as you sweat. So refreshing!

The first time I went to the sauna, my daughter came with me, and we couldn’t get over how similar it was to driving in our old Subaru.

When we lived in Florida, we would sweat every day, whether we wanted to or not.

The Subaru had black leather interior. It would bake in the driveway or a parking lot… we’d need to drive somewhere, open the door and see heat and humidity rising visibly like vapors off a barbecue grill.

Good times, good times. 😉🚗