I attended my very first yoga session earlier. It is not an easy feat! Rewind a little, I have been having a bad back for quite some time now, mainly due to bad seating posture as a result of long hours in front of the computer. After getting a 17" flat TFT screen to project my 10" light weight laptop to avoid hunched back strains, 2 visits to the doctor, a brief period of painkillers and a tube of Deep Heat later, the pain returned! :(
Anyone with prolonged muscle aches can tell you how irritating it is to be enduring it at funny times throughout the day. I can simply be reaching down to pick a pebble off my shoe, bending a little to refill my water tumbler, shifting positions while in bed - boom! spasm attack. I would recoil so fast with a yelp that you may think I got burnt in the ass.
As the doctor advised, I should be going for more body massages or attend yoga classes. Hmm, tough choice here. Once a week; RM 70 per body massage vs free yoga from the company. Sigh, how I wish it could be free body massages from the company! Heh.
So yep, I just went for my first yoga class. Suffice to say, the Instructor kept murmuring;
"fadedbutterfly, bend your knees straight"
"fadedbutterfly, relax your facial muscles"
"fadedbutterfly, curl your toes in"
"fadedbutterfly, relax your facial muscles"
"fadedbutterfly, spread your palms wide"
"fadedbutterfly, relax your facial muscles"
With every stretch I do, every hamstring I stretch, every degrees my legs are raised, every angle I turn... I wince in pain. That is how fit I am. :(
6 comments:
Heya
have you tried swimming? I used to suffer from bad back pain too (same reason as you - too much office work in front of the computer), but i found a 30 min swim once a week did wonders. Freestyle is the best - the more laps you can do, the better.
Yng
hey you!
swimming is goooooood but my swim partner and i have long stopped our workouts cos we got too lazy. perhaps when she's bored with gym then we can pick up again. thanks for the tip! ;)
hey.. i am not the swim partner you mentioned here right??
magges - u sure are. KKK days.
shesssh... in dat case let's think of something to pick up again, cause i already bored with gym.. ehhehe... like jogging round yr house again? ahha... tt was a total flop project!
and you know WHERE we'd end up if we were to do mindless things like jogging around my hse :p
lets play sports la :p
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