Monday
Jun182012
Three Ways To Lock In The Benefits of Hot Yoga
"Lock your arms! Lock your leg! Lock your knee or the pose hasn't even started!"
You hear the word "lock" a lot in hot yoga. Here are the many variations you may have heard for 90 minutes straight:
"Squeeze your biceps behind your ears like they're holding your head onto your neck."
"Lock your thigh muscle; pull it up off your kneecap. Look for the dimple above your knee in the mirror."
"Make your standing leg like a tree-trunk, a lamppost. Lock your knee!"
Here's why you will hear that over and over again: