Yoga Strength Challenge

Looking for a fun and rewarding challenge? For the next four weeks you follow a yoga workout with Lizette Pompa that helps you grow stronger and develop your yoga practice.

Finding the discipline to do this on your own is not easy, so you do the Yoga Strength Challenge together with Lizette every step of the way. She does all the exercises with you, in her own playful and down to earth way. Who knew Plank Pose, and countless variations of it, could put a smile on your face?

Each workout is 10 to 15 minutes, level 2. You need a towel, a block and a blanket. Let's get strong together.

Yoga Strength Challenge

Week 1

Let's Begin

Today is day one of our strength yoga challenge, and we start with a first yoga workout for the arms and the core.

Experiment and modify to fit where your body is today. Remember that you have three more weeks ahead of you, so use your body in a smart way. You can do this, and we are together all the way through. Level 2, no props needed.

Push and Release

In this workout, we continue to explore different ways to play with Chaturanga Dandasana (Four-Limbed Staff Pose). Have fun working out with yoga postures such as Navasana (Boat Pose) and Chaturanga, flowing through vinyasas.

Fifteen minutes for the arms and the core. Level 2, no props needed.

Compress Yourself

This workout lets you use your strength in a different way. Compression is a great way to work out without using your arms all that much.

Get ready to feel your quads like never before, and find a break by working on your core. Level 2, with two blocks.

Mix it Up

This yoga workout mixes up the last three days. Feel your arms, legs and core, and finish your week feeling strong.

Repetition and practice make your body stronger, so let's practise what we have done during the week. Level 2, with two blocks.

Week 2

Let it Slide

This is a full body workout. Get ready to fire up new parts of your body.

Move from Dolphin Pose to Chaturanga, through lunge pulses, and finish by using your towel to strengthen your hamstrings. Level 2.

Feel the Heat

Day two of the second week. Action from the first minute, as we warm up the body with five vinyasas before moving on to pike slides to get the core burning.

Fifteen minutes for the abdomen and the arms. Level 2, with a towel.

Slide Back

Keep your towel close, because this workout fires up your triceps. Move through squats and vinyasas, and finish by sliding on your towel to target the triceps and the shoulders.

Fifteen minutes for the arms, the legs and the core. Level 2.

Slide it All Together

No need to do anything else. Slide it all together into one full body workout. We bring back the sliding drills from the last three days. This will be intense, but so worth it.

Fifteen minutes for the core, the arms and the hamstrings. Level 2, with a towel.

Week 3

Let's Plank

This week is all about bringing plank into our workouts to build strength in the arms and the core. Get ready to develop a love-hate relationship with it.

Plank is a beginner's best friend: it is the best preparation for more challenging arm balances. Level 2, with a block.

Tone Your Side

We move our plank to the side with some side plank dips. They strengthen the obliques, the muscles along the sides of your waist, as well as the entire core. Then get ready for more core and arms.

Level 2, no props needed.

From Side to Crow

Planks can be a lot of fun. We bring in some movement, switching from side to side and up and down to strengthen the entire core.

Then we move into Bakasana (Crow Pose) walks, and Navasana to Ardha Navasana (Boat to Half Boat). Level 2, no props needed.

Fully Planked

A fully planked workout to fire up your body. We bring in drills from the past days and finish with a forearm hold. This will be intense but short. You can do this.

Ten minutes for the core, the arms and the side body. Level 2, with a block.

Week 4

Let's Put it All Together

The last week is here, and we put it all together in our last four workouts. Your body will remember these drills, so notice if they feel any different this time.

Yoga push-ups and bicycles are on the menu today. We start in Downward-Facing Dog. Level 2, with a blanket.

Push and Slide

Dolphin Pose to Four-Limbed Staff Pose, side plank dips and hamstring slides, anyone? This is a full body workout that puts your arms to the test.

Shoulders, core and side body get their share before we strengthen the hamstrings to finish. Level 2, with a blanket.

Almost There

In this workout you work with push-ups, planks and a core exercise that may look easy but will get you sweating.

We are almost at the end of this challenge. Stay strong and enjoy it. Level 2, with a block.

Find Your Strength

Welcome to the last workout. Get ready to have fun and work hard.

Plank slides to forearm plank, Paripurna Navasana (Boat Pose) and, to make it even better, some more core to finish the challenge. Good job. You did it. Level 2, with a blanket.