Grapevine! Mambo! Left! Left! Right! Over!

We intrepid get-in-shapers went to a cardio class called "Shaping" last night. We were late (never a good start), and ended up stumbling into a packed room. We found our places, and marched on cue. Things got a little confusing (or scary, or funny, or frustrating, or irritating depending on the split second) when she started yelling all kinds of commands, half of which I couldn't even hear over the blaring music. The ones I did hear were things like "MAMBO" "LEFT LEFT LEFT RIGHT" "OVER" "WALK" (and "walk" is never just walking in cardio, that much I knew). I did my best to keep up and, being in the last row, I was trying to see what other people were doing. The class was so packed I couldn't really see the instructor... She really could've been reading a book on astrophysics, for all I know. I wouldn't have understood it any less.

I did get my tiny feeling of accomplishment when I could keep up for about 30sec every once in a while. The heel-to-ass-turn swirl always made me lose my bearings. Fortunately I wasn't the only one, about half of the class seemed a little lost.

Having survived the first class (nothing like plunging in off the deep end straight away for making you feel alive) I am quite confident that the weeks to come will be easier, and I will get the hang of it soon. Except for next week, when schools are on a break here, and since the cardio groups use school gyms, they take a break too... grumble.

But next week I will go back to hydrobics, see if the instructor has improved, and, oh yeah, spend the rest of the time packing and moving stuff. We found a very nice apartment right in the center, and now have two weeks to move.

That's all from the intrepid excerciser, always up for a new chance at accomplishment or complete humiliation. Fortunately tonight is excercise ball cardio, a class I've already been to once. Phew.

OMFG

Well, I had the coil fitted on Monday. It hurt like a motherfucker, to the extent that I actually screamed out loud. My muscles felt drained from energy for the rest of the day, just out of sheer exhaustion. I'd say that's the worst pain I've ever experienced, I could even feel it in my teeth. I did feel a bit sore for the rest of the day on Monday, but yesterday went completely fine--nothing out of the ordinary. Today I woke up with what seems to be my period...again. Hopefully this will stop soon (I have heard stories of it continuing for a while after...)

It looks like there will be no gym or excercise for me today. I might have mentioned my sore knee last week--I think I sprained a muscle on the inside of my knee, and thought that four days of rest would take care of it. Well, it's still sore. I can barely walk, so I know there's no point in even trying running (I did try on Friday, and it hurt like hell). I'm actually quite pissed off and disappointed; I was ready to get back into action today. But maybe considering both factors it's better to just take things easy today.

Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to get going again.

Another Excercise Week Gone By

Well, well well. The weekend is here (quite literally, as it is almost 1am!), after quite the week of excercise variation!
The stick cardio thing was quite a bit of fun, and I'm sure very effective--at least my upper back hasn't felt this great in a very long time.

I didn't do a thing on Thursday; it seems I pulled a muscle near the side of my knee on Tuesday, and the gym & cardio on Wednesday just aggravated it. I did go to the gym today (well, Friday), but couldn't manage more than 10 mins on the treadmill, after that it started hurting too much. I figure it's better to let it rest now, before it gets really problematic. In that sense, timing could not be better: as I'm having the coil thingie on Monday, I won't be going to the gym or excercise classes for a couple of days after (at least, and hopefully not even that long) so I'd have to take a bit of a break anyway.

I suppose tonight would count for excercise too... Gymgirl and I decided to have a girls' night out, so she came over to our place, we had a couple of drinks and some healthy snacks (carrot sticks and dip, anyone?), and then headed for the bar. Well, it's currently -18C here (!), so it's only natural all the bars we wanted to go to were full. After a nice, needless 20min walk we found a bar with a free table. Gymgirl had decided to go to an excercise class tomorrow morning, so she only stayed for one drink. MrPicky and I were both out, so I decided to text/call him to see if I could join him and his crowd for a drink. God damn loud bars, he didn't hear his phone. I walked to a couple of bars I thought they would be at, but no luck. They've probably decided to go someplace completely different for a change, my luck that is. So I walked back home. It being so cold, it should count for plenty of excercise, right? Right.

So there. That's my excercise week. Bring on the weekend, fireplace and curling up on the couch with a book and a warm drink.

Excercise Ball Class: A Survivor

So I survived the excercise ball class. Unfortunately it turned out that the ball was not the huge excercise ball we thought it would be, but a smaller, squishy one. The class was very effective, especially on the arms, and a good cardio workout.

As expected, I got lost with a couple of twists and turns, especially as the instructor was quite happy to not explain terminology or what we were expected to do. All in all it went well, though, and I'll definitely go again next week.

The only places sore today are my arms, but I can't really tell if that's from the cardio or from the gym (yes, I was a good girl and went to the gym yesterday too).

In any case, tonight we're trying excercise stick cardio. It's supposed to be good, but I'm a bit sceptical about the concept... Well, I'll know more tonight!