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Ten days of bellydance - day 8 and 9
Jan. 4th, 2015 12:40 pmDay 8
my body is starting to adapt to the exercise and I am starting to feel more energetic. There has been muscle ache after the p90X abs workout but as long as I keep on moving every day, it will smoothen out. I wanted to do more cardio today and a bit of weights soI went with another favorite: Jillian Michaels '30 day shred'. The dvd contains three 30 minute workouts that can be done at different levels depending on your own stamina. I did the first workout and it was good. Strange how attached I get to the voice of people on dvd, like Jillina, Aziza, Jillian and Tony. Almost as if I went to real classes (well, I did go to their workshops but that's different, right?)
I wanted to continue with Shimmies with Khalida but I discovered that the dvd was in the dvd player that I gave to my mother :-( Instead I went with practicing the Jenna choreo four times. It is starting to sink in, if I can practice it some more in the next week I might videotape myself so I can give myself corrections.
I am going to finish my Zambra Mora/Spanish-Arabic handout for tomorrow's class. I have a beginners and an advanced class tomorrow, which brings me to:
Day 9
First day of work in 2015 and I am teaching two classes. By adding ten minutes of choreo practice for myself I am counting those two and a half hour as day 9! I also like to write down the unwritten rules for my ten day challenge, so I can turn it into a decent blogpost when I am done.
The goal of my challenge was to get myself moving again and create a bit of a habit. I need to remember how much I love bellydance by actually dancing. It might sound strange but as a professional dancer, much of my time goes into administration, website updates, writing newsletters and developing new material for my students. Less and less time is spend on dancing. I am however fully aware that, like most of us, I have limited time. Next to my goal to dance more, I need to get off my ass and get healthier. Not to lose weight (though I wouldn't mind losing a bit of the 20 pounds I put on in the last two years) but to keep my body strong, healthy and in shape. Training my muscles to be strong shapes my body at any weight. The rules that I set for myself are:
1. days don't have to be consecutive. I am allowed to take a break because life gets in the way
2. at least 10 minutes of dance practice (choreo practice, drills, instructional dvd) counts. I have to physically DANCE
3. I can supplement dance practice with strength/cardio/any other form of movement
4. I will write down every day what I have done.
5. The challenge is ten days because that is the avarage attention span for most people. I will try to keep it up though and continue into 30 days, then 60, then 90, etc. Let's see how much dance practice I can get into one year! (next to my full time job, loving husband, dog, travel time and family and friends)
To those of you who already did a challenge or are considering starting one, what are your rules for a dance challenge?
my body is starting to adapt to the exercise and I am starting to feel more energetic. There has been muscle ache after the p90X abs workout but as long as I keep on moving every day, it will smoothen out. I wanted to do more cardio today and a bit of weights soI went with another favorite: Jillian Michaels '30 day shred'. The dvd contains three 30 minute workouts that can be done at different levels depending on your own stamina. I did the first workout and it was good. Strange how attached I get to the voice of people on dvd, like Jillina, Aziza, Jillian and Tony. Almost as if I went to real classes (well, I did go to their workshops but that's different, right?)
I wanted to continue with Shimmies with Khalida but I discovered that the dvd was in the dvd player that I gave to my mother :-( Instead I went with practicing the Jenna choreo four times. It is starting to sink in, if I can practice it some more in the next week I might videotape myself so I can give myself corrections.
I am going to finish my Zambra Mora/Spanish-Arabic handout for tomorrow's class. I have a beginners and an advanced class tomorrow, which brings me to:
Day 9
First day of work in 2015 and I am teaching two classes. By adding ten minutes of choreo practice for myself I am counting those two and a half hour as day 9! I also like to write down the unwritten rules for my ten day challenge, so I can turn it into a decent blogpost when I am done.
The goal of my challenge was to get myself moving again and create a bit of a habit. I need to remember how much I love bellydance by actually dancing. It might sound strange but as a professional dancer, much of my time goes into administration, website updates, writing newsletters and developing new material for my students. Less and less time is spend on dancing. I am however fully aware that, like most of us, I have limited time. Next to my goal to dance more, I need to get off my ass and get healthier. Not to lose weight (though I wouldn't mind losing a bit of the 20 pounds I put on in the last two years) but to keep my body strong, healthy and in shape. Training my muscles to be strong shapes my body at any weight. The rules that I set for myself are:
1. days don't have to be consecutive. I am allowed to take a break because life gets in the way
2. at least 10 minutes of dance practice (choreo practice, drills, instructional dvd) counts. I have to physically DANCE
3. I can supplement dance practice with strength/cardio/any other form of movement
4. I will write down every day what I have done.
5. The challenge is ten days because that is the avarage attention span for most people. I will try to keep it up though and continue into 30 days, then 60, then 90, etc. Let's see how much dance practice I can get into one year! (next to my full time job, loving husband, dog, travel time and family and friends)
To those of you who already did a challenge or are considering starting one, what are your rules for a dance challenge?
