Yoga may not be the first thing to come to mind when it comes to building strength, but it definitely does the job! Yoga tones muscles all over your body, in balance with each other, whereas weight training exercises typically isolate and flex one muscle or muscle group at a time.
Yoga also increases muscle endurance because you sometimes hold a pose for a period of time and repeat it throughout a yoga class.
So on that note, here’s your 7-day Yoga & Pilates Strength-Building Plan
DAY 1
Pilates For Strength (11-Mins)
Meet Babs (pronounced Bubs), our powerhouse pocket rocket! Join Babs for a quick strength building pilates sequence that’s accessible to everyone. Have fun and feel the burn as you strengthen, tone and invigorate the body.
DAY 2
Pilates Beg. Abs (13-Mins)
Learn all the tricks to fire up your core through Pilates mat basics. This quick blast for your core will trigger all parts of your abs, build core rotation, along with hip and spine flexibility. You will feel strong in your centre afterwards - that is a promise!
DAY 3
Sweat & Flow (42-Mins)
Hold onto your horses! This non-stop full-body flow is going to take you for a wild ride high and low, back to front and from eager to invigorated. You’ll be offered advanced variations for headstand, forearm stand and handstand.
DAY 4: TAKE A WELL-DESERVED DAY OFF.
DAY 5
Great Wall Practice (40-Mins)
The Wall is our prop in this class, we will use it for alignment, strength, flexibility and defying gravity. We will find alignment in our downdog, strength in handstand, flexibility in King Arthur pose and defy gravity in wall crawls into wheel pose.
DAY 6
FitFlow Lower Body (23-Mins)
Begin with a yummy reclined pigeon to ground yourself into the class before getting straight into leg warm-ups! Strengthen/tone the lower body with fast-paced sequences and challenging balancing postures paired with fun transitions & breath work.
DAY 7
FitFlow Upper Body (26-Mins)
Begin with a gentle cat/cow warm-up, paying some attention to warming up the wrists before getting into some core and stability work. This sequence focuses on strengthening/toning the upper body with different plank variations and arm balances.
