{"id":35,"date":"2010-02-24T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/24\/yoga-runners"},"modified":"2010-08-25T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T15:51:08","slug":"yoga-runners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Yoga & Runners"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>During my last massage, the masseuse asked me if I was a runner. “Why?” She said that my leg muscles were tight like a runner, and she said she could have spent the entire session on just my lower body.<\/p>\n

Not good!! I have a confession to make: I am horrible at stretching. I stretch after running but not nearly enough. The recent soreness of my knee reminded me that I need to take care of my body. The possibility of being sidelined for weeks or –SHUDDER– months, scared me! Time to make a change!<\/p>\n

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Running causes a tightening and shortening of muscles and if not fixed with stretching, it can cause serious injury. A lot of times, I feel tight and stiff after a run. I assumed that with my swimming I was OK–that stretched out my long muscles enough and relieved the tightness. Which is true. But not enough!<\/p>\n

Last night, feeling down about my sore knee and stressing about when I could run again, I did yoga after work. I set up in the living room (picture above right) and spent about 25 minutes doing yoga poses and stretching. I used an iphone app for yoga to help remind me of poses. And yes my kitty helped me with the yoga! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I felt so much better afterward! And waking up this morning, my knee pain was gone! I am going to try and do yoga at least once a week. I might incorporate it into my routine on Rest Days. I’m also going to look into local drop-in classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During my last massage, the masseuse asked me if I was a runner. “Why?” She said that my leg muscles were tight like a runner, and she said she could have spent the entire session on just my lower body. Not good!! I have a confession to make: I am horrible at stretching. I stretch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[164,175,215,224,260,308],"tags":[8671,8707,1103,8767],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}