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Strong Women
Yoga challenge: “I did Yoga with Adriene every day for a month – here's how it changed me”
By Lexi Earl
4 years ago
2 min read
It’s all very well undertaking a fitness challenge (whether that’s working towards doing 20 burpees in a row, or running a half marathon), but if you don’t keep it up afterwards, it’s a bit of waste of time. But when writer Lexi Earl committed to 30 days of yoga, she found it was enough to form a permanent habit.
In January 2021, I finally completed Yoga with Adriene’s 30 days of yoga challenge. After several years of starting the challenge and then giving up after a few days or weeks, I stayed the course and finished the programme. It felt so satisfying to have committed to and finished something physical.
I gave birth the August before and I thought the pregnancy had gone well – everyone kept saying how well I was carrying her; for the first time in a long time, I felt okay in my body (if superbly uncomfortable). Then I went into labour and they discovered that she was much smaller than expected and had stopped growing some weeks prior – something no one had picked up on. (She is, fortunately, totally fine.)
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