{"id":2861,"date":"2011-07-13T06:45:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitchicks.ca\/blog\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2011-07-13T06:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:45:07","slug":"wellness-wednesday-balancing-bootcamp-with-bikram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fitchicks.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/wellness-wednesday-balancing-bootcamp-with-bikram\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness Wednesday &#8211; Balancing Bootcamp with Bikram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Chicks,<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I am so sorry for being MIA the last 2 weeks!\u00a0 Between moving, working,<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oxfamcanada.akaraisin.com\/pledge\/Team\/Home.aspx?seid=3694&amp;tid=30801&amp;mid=10\"> prepping for our 100km Oxfam Trailwalker\u00a0hike\u00a0 on July 22 &#8211; 24th<\/a><\/span> and teaching my <a href=\"www.fitchicks.ca\/locations\">Danforth bootcamp<\/a>, I have barely had time to think.<\/p>\n<p>With everything out of order in my life I have been feeling quite overwhelmed and stressed so I did one of my favourite things this weekend to balance &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bikram_Yoga\">Bikram Yoga<\/a>! And I forgot what a killer workout it is too.\u00a0 This summer my workout regime has been strongly focused around running, interval training and bootcamp and to be honest have been a little delinquent on my stretching.\u00a0 Well\u00a0\u00a0I paid the price this weekend in Bikram yoga for my poor stretching habits\u00a0and stress\u00a0levels &#8230;my hamstrings and hips felt like they had never seen a forward bend in their life!\u00a0 But even though I could barely move the next day, I already could feel the my body letting go of the tightness and tension.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2868\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitchicks.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/benefits-of-hot-yoga.s600x600.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2868\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2868\" title=\"benefits-of-hot-yoga.s600x600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitchicks.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/benefits-of-hot-yoga.s600x600-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"fit chicks hot yoga\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Always balance out tough workouts with lots of stretching!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Moral of the story :\u00a0 STRETCH, STRETCH, STRETCH!<\/strong> Managing stress, preventing injury and maximizing your workouts can all be easily attained by a kick butt stretch session. Always make sure you are warming up properly with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dynamic_stretching\">dynamic stretching<\/a> and finishing your workouts with a great static stretch (recent studies show to hold each stretch for approx 90 sec per muscle to allow full relaxation. Also, I always recommend to my chicks to add at least one yoga class per week (my new personal goal is doing twice a week!).<\/p>\n<h2>So Chicks, what is your favorite way to get your stretching in?<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2867\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitchicks.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/picture_23.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2867\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2867 \" title=\"picture_23\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitchicks.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/picture_23.jpg\" alt=\"oxfam fit chick\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crossing the finish line last year at the OXFAM Trailwalker - we can&#39;t wait to do it again!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PS.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t heard, I am super pumped to be running my first<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitchicks.ca\/charity\/upcoming-events\"> charity bootcamp class<\/a> of the summer on Wed July 20th with <a href=\"http:\/\/oxfamcanada.akaraisin.com\/pledge\/Team\/Home.aspx?seid=3694&amp;tid=30801&amp;mid=10\">all proceeds going to Oxfam Canada<\/a>! Come and sweat up a storm with me and help out a fabulous cause \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Laura<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Chicks, First of all, I am so sorry for being MIA the last 2 weeks!\u00a0 Between moving, working, prepping for our 100km Oxfam Trailwalker\u00a0hike\u00a0 on July 22 &#8211; 24th and teaching my Danforth bootcamp, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,14,19,23,39,40],"tags":[52,64,114,165,231],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wellness Wednesday - Balancing Bootcamp with Bikram &mdash; FIT CHICKS BLOG<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fitchicks.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/wellness-wednesday-balancing-bootcamp-with-bikram\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wellness Wednesday - Balancing Bootcamp with Bikram &mdash; 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