The following post has been written by George Lawson, one of our society members. Please contact us on Facebook if you’d like to become a guest blogger.
As we entered the room it wasn’t as hot as I initially thought, leaving me to underestimate how difficult Bikram Yoga would be. Little was I to know, however, that it was about to get much, much hotter in there and I was to regret wearing the baggy trackies I had covering my legs… Continue reading “Bikram Yoga”
As some of you know we had a taster session in Aerial yoga on Monday at Bikram yoga in Boscombe, which for me it was the first but hopefully not the last time I tried it.
Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming Rebecca from Bournemouth Yoga to the Health and Fitness Society. Rebecca kindly led a 30 minute Yoga session for the group, to give us a taste of the popular, meditation focused exercise.
Before the session, I had never tried Yoga and was interested to see why so many people have adopted this ancient form of exercise.
On Friday we had yet another great session with Jeff Lawson at Ippon gym in Bournemouth. This time we learned some basic moves of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It was a great fun, even though the sport is so tough and long term learning, which it would take years for anyone to really get into it!
It was way over a year ago when my uncle suggested that we take a trip to Switzerland, (by ‘we’ I mean 10 of us, various family members…) Having one half of my family travelled to Poland by Train via Paris and Prague, and they had the most amazing time they decided to do it again! I was able to go on this train adventure this time as I didn’t have A-Levels like I did the last time.
Yesterday we met Jeff at Ippon gym in Bournemouth Town Centre to experience a taster of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). It was an intense session but a lot was learned!
My interest in fitness started to develop when I was five and I began training gymnastics, from there it just seemed to continue on; leading me to start running and when I got older I also began going to the gym. Continue reading “My Fitness Story: Nora”
Yesterday we had the pleasure of being introduced to PiYo, a mixture of Pilates and Yoga. Vicky was an excellent instructor and talked us through the basics of PiYo before we got started.
Yesterday we had a great session in the park working on our Hula skills.
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