Recovery Means Scheduling
You put things on the schedule, then you show up. It's keeping promises to yourself.
Before getting sober, I just blew around like a leaf on the wind. Now it's 13 years later and I've tried every planner, journal, and scheduler out there. The secret is just having a schedule. Then you keep it, honor it, and cultivate it.
We call this tapas in yoga, or discipline. It's the next niyama after santosha, which I covered last week.
You must have a schedule in recovery. If you're new to recovery, schedule the basics like sleep, meetings, and meals. You put things on the schedule, then you show up. It's keeping promises to yourself. It's time blocking, or blocking out time for what matters. You don't wait for the time to come along like a leaf on the wind waits for direction. You make the time. You show up, even when you don't want to.
That's discipline, or tapas!
I've been staring at my calendars over the past week setting up the new schedule that begins today! My non-negotiable "me time" of running errands, buying groceries, and prepping for the week? That's set. It's on the calendar.
My New Crunch Arcadia Teaching Schedule is Set!
Sunday mornings, make it a double feature at Crunch Arcadia by joining me for Strong-er HIIT at 9:00 am and Hot Yoga Foundation at 10:15!
I'll see you Tues/Thurs at 5:30 at Crunch Arcadia for Boxing Fight Camp!
See the schedule and sign up in the Crunch Fitness app!
I'm excited to bring my love of yoga for the past 30 years to the HOT studio along with my 25+ year love of MMA & fitness to the HIIT Zone for Boxing Fight Camp and Strong-er HIIT.
Speaking of HIIT...
I started doing HIIT again recently, and my body remembered it. I'd been resisting HIIT because I'm at that age now and there's some underground information line that has let every perimenopausal woman I know that "HIIT is bad! Stay away!"
So I looked into it...And it can be bad. IF we're not minding sleep, rest, and recovery.
I'm fortunate to get good sleep and I have the ability to schedule rest into my week. I won't be doing HIIT like I did when I was 25. But damn if I'm not lifting heavy weights and taking long walks to adapt to my body's changes!
Workout recovery for your body is vital. Overtraining leads to injury. (I know, I've done it!)
HIIT is a tool and I still love it, I'll just have to use it wisely and plan the appropriate recovery from it.
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Heather Larson
Heather Larson