The Double

The ninety minutes of a Bikram yoga class is lovingly referred to as the torture chamber.  

Why someone would commit themselves to sixty days of torture is a mystery I can’t quite explain even to myself. Last year I did sixty classes in sixty days but I have trips planned throughout the next two months so I am making friends with the double. (Two classes in one day). 

 In attempt to calm my anxiety before two back-to-back classes this morning, I googled “double Bikram class.” Here are a few painless suggestions I found: drink coconut water in between classes and  listen to your body.  One comment  got me really psyched when he described the second class as “euphoric.”  Your body is so warmed up after the first class that the second class is a cakewalk. Thinking this sounded too good to be true, I did a second search and found this from the Scale on Fire Blog:

If you’ve never experienced real stomach cramping, imagine one side of your abdomen melting into your hip, then individual sections of your “six-pack” crunching into themselves and twitching and protruding out as if the tiny alien from “Aliens” or the singing alien from “Spaceballs” is about to pop out of your stomach. 

This guys has to be exaggerating.....right?!!!!