How to Make Yoga a Part of Your Circuit Training for a Beautiful Lean Shape

I did power yoga on Saturday and my instructor did an awesome sequence of yoga poses that would've caused muscle failure if we went much longer.

Here is why I love yoga. It lengthens and conditions your muscles while stretching them and aligning your spine. It gives you just enough of a break as you switch poses but you definitely feel the burn.

As I was deep breathing at the end of class, I thought about a great conditioning exercise to add to a cardio day. It is full body and you WILL feel it the next day.

Heres how it goes:

1. Start in Downward facing dog and then lift one leg. This puts you in split dog

Modified Version

2. Shift your weight forward. Hands directly beneath shoulders. Abs Tight. Hips Squared to floor.

Plank

Modified

3. Lower into Crocodile. Elbows bent 90 degrees. Neck long. Butt down. Abs In. 

One Legged Crocodile

 Modified

4. Push yourself back into Split dog

After doing this 10 times or until muscle failure...take a quick rest in childs post before moving on to the next exercise.

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NEXT: Split leg V-Up

Perform the following Ab Conditioner for 1 min.

Alternate Legs

1. Lie flat. Hands out to side or behind head

2. Exhale and reach one arm to the opposite leg. Try to get the back of your hand to the outside of your foot. 

(my back is rounded here. Try to keep it straighter than that.)

Advanced

Alternate legs for one minute and then take a quick rest. 

Flip over and do the Split Dog Sequence with the opposite leg 10 times or until muscle failure. 

Flip Back over and do SPLIT LEG V UPs for one minute

Got IT?

Repeat this sequence 3 times!!

It's a BURNER.