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Originally Posted by Buff
I injured my wrist playing hockey so I'm limiting myself to only doing Stand Up as it has me putting the least pressure on my wrist. Have I ever figured out how to engage and completely own that workout. I've bumped my average HR up by 6 beats in that workout! It really made me realize that I wasn't engaging as well as I could for some of the workouts. You'll see on teamddpyoga.com forums that people are asking why Energy or Fat Burner is so hard to get their HR up. Well, it's because you're not engaging properly. Once you get into a harder workout like Diamond Cutter, it is easier to let up on engaging so your HR doesn't go through the roof. That practice then follows through to the shorter and easier workouts.
Engage! Engage! Engage! That is the secret to owning your DDP Yoga workout.
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Engaging is everything, my heart rate shoots up with fat burner and with energy, but I've dropped energy for now, and I'm focusing on 3 days of fat burner and 2 days of core, and I'm looking to add on below the belt or doing two diamond cutters on the weekend.
It does get tough now because I'm starting up with coaching 3 nights a week.
But going back to engaging its huge. I mentally have to focus on the bent knee and pulling my legs together.
The other thing that I do, is when I'm in the lunge going into something like the Super star or that swim motion is to really lift my upper body or exaggeration of the movement.
The other thing, and I really struggle with it because I'm not the most agile guy in the world is the transitions. So for example in fat burner going from three legged dog (arf arf arf) to a lunge is a really difficult movement.