How to Make Yoga Workouts Online More Effective 

How to Make Yoga Workouts Online More Effective 

Now that we’re all being forced to stay home, yoga workouts online are a plenty.  Teachers of all kinds have rushed to Zoom, Instagram and YouTube to get their workouts out into the cyber world.  We know firsthand there’s nothing that compares to being in a room full of women sweating their booties off and feeding off each other’s energy. There’s just something about other bodies in it with you that motivates you to try harder than ever before and not give up quite as fast — It’s invigorating and almost intoxicating.  However, in the meantime we have no choice but to learn how to motivate ourselves during our yoga workouts online.

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Which of the Yoga Workouts Online Should I Choose?

First of all, finding the right yoga workouts online is a feat in it of itself.  Who do you follow? Who do you support, and most importantly will the workout you choose keep you engaged and motivated through this quarantine and beyond?  Before flowLIFT we tried it all, and the result was always the same — it got old quick so we ditched it and moved on to the next best thing.  Besides the complex, full body moves, the best part about flowLIFT is how the moves are strung together.  Anyone can throw moves together, but it takes years and years of sequencing experience to make them flow in a magical, effective way that gets you results every single time.  Not all yoga workouts online are equal, but that’s up to you to discover. 

The ladies who created this workout have over twenty years of experience in vinyasa yoga sequencing, and they bring that into every flowLIFT class.  Once you try it you’ll know what we mean about quality content.  The flowLIFT membership gets you access to twelve monthly classes, with a new one added every Monday and the classes are right on our site, without any third party sites involved. 

Motivating Yourself To Try Harder When You’re Alone

Okay, so you picked your yoga workouts online and now you’re ready to do the classes at home in your living room.  You roll your mat out, place your hand weights at the top of the mat, strap on your ankle weights, and hit play on your device.  You do the whole class, but you’re not sweating as much as you do during the in-person classes, and the next day you’re not as sore.  What happened?  The truth, is you just don’t try as hard when you’re alone.  Follow these tips to give your home workout the kick in the butt that it needs.

Dress the Part for Your Yoga Workouts Online

Put on your cutest workout outfit to get you in the mood as if you were going to a group class at your local studio.  Fake it til you make it!  Plus, you’ll be ready for those at home workout clips for the gram.  

Have a Friend Workout with You at the Same Time

Even thought you’re in different households you can still “workout together” by choosing the same time and the same class to do.  You can chat about it afterwards and keep each other accountable for completing the workout.  Strength in numbers for motivation!

Put on a Fitbit or Heart Rate Monitor For Your Yoga Workouts Online

Having a device to track your heart rate and calories burned can be enough motivation to move faster and try harder.  Aim to burn at least four hundred calories.  Each flowLIFT class burns approximately five hundred calories if you move at at the teacher’s pace and do the full reps.  

Keep a Yoga Workout Online Journal

Commit to doing at least a yoga workout online three times ever week.  Put it in your calendar like important meeting you can’t miss.  Studies show that scheduling your workouts make it more likely that you’ll actually do them.  Make notes at the end of the workout about how you feel and most of the time you’ll find that working hard has stress relieving benefits and you’ll never regret making the time to sweat.  

Reward Yourself for Sticking to Your Workout Schedule

Maybe it’s an extra slice of cake, or those jeans you’ve been eying on Revolve.  Whatever it is, give yourself rewards for committing and completing to your yoga workouts online.  Having something to look forward to increases your chances for success.