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is a challenging series of 26 yoga poses with two breathing exercises designed for all ages and levels of ability.This 90 minute class targets every muscle, joint, ligament, tendon and organ in the body. With a regular practice you will see the effects of this in your strength and flexibility. is done in a heated room to warm your muscles, prevent injury, allow a deeper workout, and cleanse the body by flushing toxins. A perfect compliment to your work-out, a great way to reduce stress, or to alleviate symptoms of long term or new injuries. New students, please arrive at leaset 15 minutes early for registration and orientation. www.BikramYogaRB.com 16473 Bernardo Center Drive, 2nd Floor San Diego, CA 92128 Entrance is located between Music for Kids First Citizen’s Bank (858) 673–YOGA Email: [email protected] few years of training, I know that the few times I have gotten sick happened immediately after particularly hard training sessions. Very hard training puts your body in a weakened condition. In that state, you’re at higher risk of getting sick. If you insist on training too hard too often, you will also get sick more often. The irony being that due to time off from training you end up making less progress as if you had trained with less intensity. 3 Symptom #3: You feel weak in your training. In spite of doing everything right, do you still feel weak in your training? Do you ever: - fail to complete your training - feel weak - lack enthusiasm for your training - get fatigued quickly As an athlete, you have to pay attention to many things to maximize your progress. Your nutrition has to supply your body with all the nutrients it needs to grow new tissue, you have to go to bed early and get plenty of sleep per night, you have stay away from stimulants that mess with your sleep quality, and so on. If you’ve taken care of all these factors and you’re still not making progress in the gym, you may want to look at your training intensity. Does your training schedule allow your body enough time to recover? Depending on how hard you train, you might have to wait up to a week for your body to *No discounts on 7 Day Intro Pass, Beverages, Single Pack Electrolytes, mat/towel rentals MUST present valid TCSD Membership card for discount. NO EXCEPTIONS TCSD Members get 50% OFF First Drop In Class 10% OFF* All Non-Discounted Class Packages & Retail Items recover from the training stress. A very light session of cardio requires a different recovery time than a tough session of squats and deadlifts. How much time you really need to recover from your training session not only depends on the type of exercises you performed, but also on your individual physiology and the amount of other stressors in your life. If you have a stressful job, a high maintenance relationship, poor nutrition and a bad sleep cycle your body just doesn’t recover as well. Increase your time between workouts or lower the intensity of your training to the point where you begin to make progress again. If you don’t, you’ll just run yourself into the ground and will eventually get injured. 4 Symptom #4: You feel horrible after training. Do you feel like hell after your workouts? Ideally, a training session should leave you itching for more. You should feel exhilarated and ready to take on the world. These kinds of feelings indicate that you exercised in a way that increased your testosterone, thereby creating a beneficial environment for faster recovery. Keep your training sessions short and intense, with a maximum duration of 60 minutes, although 45 minutes are ideal. If your workouts run you into the ground, leave you with wobbly knees, or even make you continued on page 16 SPONSORS OF TCSD TriPower Multisport Contact: Mike Plumb [email protected] (760) 420-8032 www.tripower.org Discount: Start up fee waived, refer to TCSD Member Discount web page. TriUsCoaching Contact: Judi Carbary www.triuscoaching.com [email protected] Discount: 10% discount for a 4 coaching session package. NUTRITION APX Sport Drink [email protected] www.apxsportdrink.com EAS Sprots Nutrition www.eas.com Fuel Factor Nutrition Contact: Kim Mueller (858) 337-3612 [email protected] www.Fuel-Fac ѽȹ