Tag: fitness
Post-Workout Treatment: Sports Chiropractic & Massage
Let’s say you (unsuccessfully) tried to hurl yourself into a handstand in yoga, and now your body seems to be punishing you for it. Make a call stat to Dr. Morgan Smith, who will do his best to get you in quickly—especially if you tell him you’re “in agony.”
New workout: CorePower Yoga
CorePower Yoga offers the typical hot-room vinyasa flow classes, with highly skilled teachers—Samson is particularly good—leading you through a fast-paced set of warrior poses and chaturangas.
Fitness Deal: ClassPass
With ClassPass, a startup that expanded to Atlanta last January, you can visit any studio in its network up to three times each month for a flat $79 monthly fee.
Yoga Instructor: Astrid Santana
Santana is like a super-bendy wood nymph who knows how to soothingly encourage, adjust, and inspire so that each class feels like it was designed especially for you.
Running Coach: Janet Hamilton
Although she often operates inside a no-frills Stockbridge gym, Hamilton is actually a nationally known coach whose expertise is often tapped by serious athletes and publications like Runner’s World.
Wanderlust 108 combines running, yoga, and guided meditation
Even if you’ve never completed a triathlon, you’d probably be hard-pressed to describe it as a “kind” sort of race. But then maybe you’ve never heard of Wanderlust 108, a “mindful triathlon” that comes to Piedmont Park on October 4.
A drone’s eye view of Sunrise Yoga at Avalon, Alpharetta
The center of a mixed-use development is not the first place one thinks of seeking enlightenment. But downward dog usurps shopping sprees during Sunrise Yoga classes on the grassy plaza of Avalon in Alpharetta.
Oh Baby! Fitness offers workouts for moms-to-be and new moms
When Clare Schexnyder was expecting her first child in 2005, it was hard to find exercise classes aimed at mothers-to-be. So she came up with Oh Baby! Fitness.
Downward dog meets boot camp at Iron Root Studio
It’s a safe bet that the ancient master of meditation Patanjali never urged his disciples to “feel the burn.” Certainly his Yoga Sutras make no reference to the arrival of “Daisy Dukes season.”
Welcome to Boot Camp
I’m tired. I’m sore. I’m gassy.
That, I’m told, is expected.
For three days, I have been stretched, scanned, pushed, and pampered. I’ve been stripped of salt, sugar, and most red meat. And I’ve eaten enough...