Food is not everything.
If you want to feel healthy, happy, pretty, joyful – you need to move your body.
My Fitness Childhood
Since I went raw, or since I started being really interested in raw, life foods, in how to prepare them, how to grow them, I actually abounded my yoga classes.
Some of you know that I am a yoga instructor. At my peak performance time I was doing yoga every day for 2 h +.
At the age of 6 my parents enrolled me in an acrobat school. I was doing all these crazy flips and jumps for 13 years. I became professional acrobat, was traveling to contests and eventually I choose trampoline as my discipline.
Through my University times I did few attends to a gym, yoga classes , but it was not by any means a regular activity. Somehow I stopped exercising on a daily basis, I was grateful for my lean and toned body that I worked for through so many years and I guess I decided that I don’t need to move anymore..
Thanks to God I have always loved to dance!
Raw Foods and Athletes
Back to the time when my raw interest started.
I was so occupied with raw food idea by reading, chopping, eating, talking about it, that I stopped my yoga one day without even thinking about it. Again-somehow, I dropped almost everything to get into another obsession : raw lifestyle, which is focused on gaining health by eating raw, life foods.
If you really look closer at raw food web sites, there is not many that talk about fitness or place movement at the same level of importancy as food. Of course you can find posts about yoga, rarely Pilates. We have Tonya Kay , Brendan Brazier, Storm, Tim Van Orden. Not many women. But let me tell you something that I found out just a week ago.
My body was trained most of my life, as I said previously. But till I went for my first weight lifting class last week, I did not know that some muscles actually exist in my body.
Lift some weights!
The class is called : BodyPump and is designed for those who want to burn calories quickly, gain strength and muscles. Of course everyone chooses how much weight to put on the bar, but needs to follow the repetition cycle.
No need to lie – I was sore for three days! Three days of walking slowly and pretending that my weird movements are only a response for an icy pavements.
Well, I started felling that my raw, life food body was not in the best shape at all.
Three days ago I finally came back to the gym and took spinning class and let me tell you that this one is a BOMB! Awesome endurance and strength builder plus it wipes your fatties away quickly and in an entertaining way.
Why, How and Who ?
Yes, my goal is to loose some inches. I am not really focused on weight loss. I am not fat, overweight. I feel that my body needs to get back in shape; get toned, a bit more muscular, strong.
So far the come back was amazing. The ‘comitement‘ part plays a big role and because I pre-payed the classes I will be at the gym 6 times a week.
To the gym activity I added 10 minutes of rebounding every day, handstands and 10 minutes of headstand.
Now, many of you saw me standing on my hands already. Thank you for all the compliments! I can last with my legs up for quite a while and I am proud of it. It is a great core exercise ( it is up to your core how stable you are up there;-), not really up to arms/shoulder s) and awesome inversion pose.
Headstand though strengthens the neck ( and if you are writing, painting, sewing..your neck needs to be strong ) and is called the king of assanas because of the overall affect on the whole body.
Girls and boys – if you want the glowing skin and shiny hair it is a great way to get these!
So, this post is all about how to re-connect with your body through movements different than dance, yoga. These are options all great, I am happy for you if you explore them.
But sometimes I feel like raw foodist think that these east movements propositions are the only ones that are ‘ sophisticated ‘ enough to compliment them with living foods. That is maybe why so many raw foodists are skinny and somewhat not show the care for their muscles to be toned.
If you look at Peter Ragnar‘s Body, you know he must lift some weights.
I also got inspired by Lori Painter and her fitness, weight loss plan. This girl is so open that sometimes I think I am very very introvert type. And I just felt in love with her, because there is not many people out there blogging with such a honesty.
So, people, raw or not – you need to feel some muscles! Stretch them, but tone them as well. Feel them to get stronger and stronger! There is no time to wait for your first gym visit !
Get your green muscle the chance to beat !
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Yes, you are true, very few raw food web sites talk about fitness, their main concentration is on importance of food. Fitness exercises are as important as diet. Nice Article, thanks.
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