I've been counting my Curves sessions and "any other activity I engage in for over 30 minutes which causes me to break a sweat" (not counting nervousness--tee hee) as exercise. For example, I spent 2 hours helping clean the grounds of a local org, required a lot of bending and toting heavy bags (sweating!)--and I counted that as one exercise session last week.
This week I suggested to DH that on my non-Curves days we could do some yoga together. My question is, does yoga count as exercise for the purposes of SIA? If you go by the qualification of needing to break a sweat, I really don't while doing yoga; however, it is an activity that does other good things for the body and at the very least puts you in touch with your physical self.
Maybe I didn't read the rules closely enough, but what do you think--does yoga count?
Personally, I consider yoga exercise. I work out for an hour when I do water aerobics, yet never break a sweat. My heart gets pumping but it is not strenuous to the point of sweating. Personally, as long as you are participating in something to get some exercise, then it should count. Also yoga is a lot of breathing exercises and also stretching and is a very good workout for your body. So count it!!!
Debbie
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I've been counting my Curves sessions and "any other activity I engage in for over 30 minutes which causes me to break a sweat" (not counting nervousness--tee hee) as exercise. For example, I spent 2 hours helping clean the grounds of a local org, required a lot of bending and toting
heavy
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bags (sweating!)--and I counted that as one exercise session last week.
This week I suggested to DH that on my non-Curves days we could do some
yoga
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together. My question is, does yoga count as exercise for the purposes of SIA? If you go by the qualification of needing to break a sweat, I really don't while doing yoga; however, it is an activity that does other good things for the body and at the very least puts you in touch with your physical self.
Maybe I didn't read the rules closely enough, but what do you think--does yoga count?
My personal feeling is that "exercise" is 20 minutes of physical activity that you would not normally have done. I was going to use the Dr. Phil phrase of "intentional exercise" but then that excludes those times when you're doing something out of the ordinary that's labour intensive but not necessarily something you intended to do (like, for instance, sand-bagging).
I definitely count yoga as exercise. It's not exactly cardiovascular, but it does give the muscles a good workout.
Amberle3
SciFiTwin said:
I've been counting my Curves sessions and "any other activity I engage in for over 30 minutes which causes me to break a sweat" (not counting nervousness--tee hee) as exercise. For example, I spent 2 hours helping clean the grounds of a local org, required a lot of bending and toting heavy bags (sweating!)--and I counted that as one exercise session last week.
This week I suggested to DH that on my non-Curves days we could do some yoga together. My question is, does yoga count as exercise for the purposes of SIA? If you go by the qualification of needing to break a sweat, I really don't while doing yoga; however, it is an activity that does other good things for the body and at the very least puts you in touch with your physical self.
Maybe I didn't read the rules closely enough, but what do you think--does yoga count?
Thanks, SciFi
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I've been counting my Curves sessions and "any other activity I engage in for over 30 minutes which causes me to break a sweat" (not counting nervousness--tee hee) as exercise. For example, I spent 2 hours helping clean the grounds of a local org, required a lot of bending and toting heavy bags (sweating!)--and I counted that as one exercise session last week.
This week I suggested to DH that on my non-Curves days we could do some yoga together. My question is, does yoga count as exercise for the purposes of SIA? If you go by the qualification of needing to break a sweat, I really don't while doing yoga; however, it is an activity that does other good things for the body and at the very least puts you in touch with your physical self.
It depends on why you want to do exercise.
If you do it for cardio then you need to get the heart rate up for an extended period. Without a heart monitor my rule of thumb is that if you are out of breath and sweating then you are doing the job. (out of breath means you have the heart rate up, and sweating means you have been doing the exercise for a while). I do weight lifting sessions and it depends on what exercises I do as to whether I get my heart rate up high enough, and I rarely sweat unless I'm doing heavy deadlifts. So it doesn't count as cardio. It does count as (anaerobic) exercise though.
I think it's your call as to whether you count yoga as exercise. If it helps your health and or your weight loss then count it.
