Why Hot Yoga will outlast us all

Will hot yoga outlast Peak Fitness and other crazes from aerobics to step-class?

For years I experimented with different forms of physical conditioning - everything from swimming at the Y to weight training at home (an exercise physiologist friend prepared a personalized weight training regimen tailored for my size, shape and age.) 

What they all had in common: I was bored.

I dreaded doing it. I played music, put on the TV, anything to distract me from the drudgery (now I see people riding stationary bikes or treadmilling-it at the gym while watching little personal-sized TV screens. I feel their pain).

I was tuning out while I was trying to tune up. Something about this just didn't fit my idea of whole-self health...

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Is Hot Yoga today's Peak Fitness?

The latest fitness secret that's piqued everyone's interest is Peak Fitness.

Peak Fitness is a form of exercise that works you as hard as possible for a short burst of time, and is followed up with slower, more relaxing movement. It's all the rage.

Which just proves that everything old is new again.

Hot yoga had this system down to a science over 50 years ago. Hot yoga is finally being proven by modern day science, but we hot yogis already have our proof,  in our results...

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