Day 6 – I get to be active and sweat today!
GYM – I to the gym for some upper body and core work. I use the machines so that I don’t have to try to move weights around on crutches. I dropped the amount of weights I used down by 20% and added a 4th set instead. Since most of the machines are sitting this works well. I usually just cross my right leg over my left ankle to avoid pressing into the floor.
Yoga – I took a 60 minute hot yoga vinyasa class today. My plan was to basically lie on the mat, maybe do some of the warm up breathing sequences and then stay in savasana basically until the end. Not at all what happened. I got a good solid practice in! There were A LOT of modifications that I had to do. I estimated that I completed about 80 percent of the class. There were some postures that simply didn’t have an appropriate modification that I felt safe using at this time. Definitely going to write a follow up post just on the Yoga modicatons and will probably explore hosting a workshop for knee injured student teaching these modifications.