Pin now, practice shoulder taps later - great for building upper body strength.Wearing: heart butt leggings, sweaty betty bra. Using: fit lifestyle co mat. — Pin now, practice shoulder taps later - great for building upper body strength.
Wearing: heart butt leggings, sweaty betty bra. Using: fit lifestyle co mat.

Build Upper Body Strength with Shoulder Taps

September 24, 2015

A few weeks back I posted an instagram video of me practicing shoulder taps. It was the first time I'd ever tried them and I fell in love with the challenge of staying up for more than two taps (I made it to three in a row, woop).

Miz at the gymWearing: sweaty betty tank, reebok bra. — Miz at the gym
Wearing: sweaty betty tank, reebok bra.

Workout Wednesday: Travel Woes

September 23, 2015

Since I've been getting a lot of workout questions in the last few months, we're gonna test out a new series, Workout Wednesday. This is where I'll talk about what I do to complement my yoga practice. I'd love to hear what you do to complement your practice down below in the comments along with any questions you have for future workout posts.

This won't be the most exciting Workout Wednesday post because I was traveling most of last week. I had great intentions of working out while on the road - my hotel had a gym and I also brought along my resistance bands but I quickly realized those were lofty goals.

Pin now! How upper body strength training has improved my handstandPictured: sweaty betty bottle, bose headphones, caveman cookies, puma sneakers — Pin now! How upper body strength training has improved my handstand
Pictured: sweaty betty bottle, bose headphones, caveman cookies, puma sneakers

Workout Wednesday: The Jump Forward

September 16, 2015

PSA: Four quick things: 1) Our Costa Rica Jungle Retreat is filling up! We'd love to have you join us! 2) If you're interested in participating in a live chat on the yoga forum, let us know! 3) Our holiday YBC Mantra Box is available for pre-sale, and we now offer YBC Grab Bags for my peeps on a budget. 4) If you've downloaded our YBC Official App and reviewed it, send a screenshot to @ybc_lauren on twitter and we'll send you a little gift in thanks!

It's been a fantastic few weeks here at YBC and I am so excited to share the details soon! Until then, let's talk workouts.

Push Up Party

September 15, 2015

If you're working on arm balances, one of the best things you can do is build your upper body strength. I have a love/hate relationship with push ups - mostly because they're freaking hard. When I was in Morocco, Greg and I wanted to workout but we were in the middle of the dessert, so he suggested a hiit workout that included what he affectionally dubbed a "push up party."

Pin now - a quick, effective heart-pumping workout

Workout Wednesday: A quick, effective, heart-pumping workout

September 9, 2015

One of the things I love about my new style of working out is not having to work out for a long time in order to see results. Hiit workouts have been really effective for me in order to get a little cardio action in my routine. While I love to lift weights, sometimes it's not always possible to get to the gym if I'm traveling or something, so I'll do a routine like this.

Workout Wednesday

September 2, 2015

We're back with another Workout Wednesday post and in news probably only I care about, this week was huge for me because I did my first unassisted pull up! This is crazy because the last time I attempted an unassisted pull up wasn't that long ago - maybe five weeks or so - and I wasn't able to go further than halfway up. This week I had no problem getting up on the first one, and then I'd try to do two in a row and the second one was a sloppy mess but hey, still huge for me! So proud!