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| The brand is Magnilay. |
I now have TWO yoga mats and two yoga bags. Since I do yoga at the student union twice a week, I have a bag at work that includes two blocks, a strap, my mat, and leggings. The bag can fit a blanket, but it's really tight and hard to repack, so for now, there's no blanket. This has worked out well for me. I leave it at school most of the time, but if I am going to a yoga class somewhere else, I bring it home with me.
Then I splurged and bought a new yoga mat for home so that I could leave the other bag at school. I have a blanket, bolster, and another set of blocks at home. I could probably use a strap for home use, but I mostly just use a tie or a PT resistance band. I had a different yoga mat at home, but it was not very good quality and was constantly shedding tiny pink pebbles everywhere. So now I have a good quality mat at home and the whole set up seems seamless.
While I was buying my new mat, I bought a bag just for the mat. I take that with me to the community center when I go to my fitness classes and just throw some hand weights into a bag with my water to do those classes. This system is pretty new - I've only had the new mat for a couple of weeks - but so far this system is working for me!
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| My set up for fitness classes. It's a Manduka mat and bag. |
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Do you have an exercise bag? Were you choosy about picking it?
I have a yoga bag that I bought for $3.75 at a thrift store and I love it! So no...I was not choosy. Thankfully I liked the only option!
ReplyDeleteIt's so funny you should write about this as I was going to talk about my collection of yoga mats on my Fave things. I have very strong feelings about yoga mats - I have FOUR of the Manduka Black Mats. I have so many because one is my husband's (so it's not MINE but it is in the house, so I'm counting it), one was for this house when we lived in Calgary, so I didn't have to schlep it every time we came here, one was my "teaching mat" which was just kept in my minivan at all times, and one was my practice mat, which was kept at the Shala (I had a permanent space for it). But then the pandemic happened and the Shala closed, and I was teaching at home, and tl;dr I have a lot of mats. But not a single bag! I had one of those things that just velcros around the mat and is a shoulder strap for my teaching mat. So I'm not choosy about an exercise bag since I do everything at home, but I am choosy about my mats (my many mats).
ReplyDeleteSince I only do yoga at home, i don't have a bag- just my mat and two blocks. I'm not as choosy about my mat as Nicole, but I did have one of those cheap ones that shredded all over the place- now I have a nicer one and it's so much better.
ReplyDeleteWhat I do remember is porting a pretty huge bag to the tennis court along with a huge container of water.
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