On another exercise note, for those of you that are young and are really looking to loose calories and tone your body, try kick boxing, but take it easy and do it right. Shortly after giving up yoga I wound up signing up for a ladies kick boxing defense class. I loved it and could tell in a short time what a difference it was making on my body. But typical me instead of going 2 nights a week like I signed up for, the guy saw how much I loved it so let me come to his other classes so I started going 4 times a week. We used bags that hung from the ceiling and they moved when you hit them. The class was in a fight gym, where they had that cage fighting and two boxing rings. The guy that taught the class grew up in a boxing family so it was a serious place and in three months I could tell what a difference it was making, so then on Saturdays when at Bally's I started bringing my gloves and punching their bag which was a huge floor mounted bag that was very hard and hardly moved when you punched it. Well I must have jammed my arm on that bag the wrong way because I wound up getting an extreme case of tendenits in my right forearm that lasted for over six month, picking up a suitcase or a gallon of milk was even painful. For a long time I did not even tell my husband I had gotten hurt again because he had been telling me " you are too old to start boxing" So once again I had to give up something that I really was enjoying and was making a difference. I wish I would have known or thought about this type of exercise decades ago. It is an amazing workout, it tones your arms, legs and abs and LOL you can work through your aggressions as well. But take a lesson from me, don't over do it |