JESAL PARIKH
Jesal Parikh (she/her/hers) is an Indian-American yoga teacher, movement educator, podcaster, author, and disrupter working on creative solutions for equity in Yoga. She's a co-host of the Yoga is Dead podcast and she offers movement education through the lens of social justice. Her mission is to uplift those who feel isolated and marginalized by the yoga industry.
![I recently took a cardio dance class, and we had to do arm circles out to the sides for a long, long, long time.
It’s been a long, long, long time since I did these kinds of classes on a regular basis, and though I have what I would consider much stronger arms now, it’s a different kind of strength.
This meant I no longer had the same tolerance for the endurance level required to do arm circles for a long, long, long time.
I would argue that the kind of upper body strength you get from weightlifting – not even necessarily heavy weightlifting – has more life carryover and relevance than bodyweight arm exercises.
In life, I’m more likely to need to pick up something heavy and carry it (say, a case of seltzer water from the car to the house), or to push a carryon bag overhead into the storage compartment, than to hold my arms up and circle them for an extended period of time.I’m also a fan of avoiding the burn, so I’m more inclined to pick up a weight and get to fatigue before the burn, well, starts to burn so bad.
Where do you land on the love it/leave it spectrum for this type of work?
[sneak peek: we’ll be talking all about different types of strength in our Season 6 opening episode next week, so keep an eye out!]
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