Progressing with my Silver Ballroom and Latin routines that l am learning with my awesome teacher John Paul, and I have almost mastered the Cha Cha and Salsa ... Arms have always been a challenge for me but l have surprisingly picked this up a lot quicker this time round and really loving the Cha Cha routine. What l do have a giggle about, are some of the Salsa dance move names in my routine - "The Texas Tommy", "Sling Shot", "Hammer hold" at first l thought JP was making them up but they are in fact names derived from the Apache dance..lots of turns but once you get going with it, its so much fun. I also find Robbie's Latin classes most beneficial with my preparation. So it's 2 dances down and 6 more to go!!
My fitness campaign is going well, still aiming for my first Fun Run in October and l am enjoying my Personal Training Sessions, easing into the running which is improving each week and working hard on my core training. For a woman who has never trained before, l am finding it pretty tough and challenging but feeling exhilarated and very satisfied afterwards. Even enjoying the aches and pains that go with it (think there is something wrong with me). Adding to my fitness campaign are the Saturday classes with Ashley and Courtney which gets the heart pumping, and for some heavy duty workout then its Thursday night's dance marathon with Camilla's double zumba which is guaranteed to get those stomach muscles working with her sexy latin moves and if you really want to sweat, you must do the Jive or as Bri , Dan and l call it the "Killer Jive", we can barely move afterwards and neither can Robbie.. (word of warning though, do not eat beforehand, especially hamburgers, otherwise you maybe sharing a lot more than you bargained for).... And for some real food for the soul then its Trent's zumba with his different fun routines...,,.I am exhausted just reading this. But it really doesn't matter what classes you rock up to the instructors are all great and you are guaranteed a real fun work out!!!
I am exhausted just thinking about the Killer Jive already! But Rita you are forgetting one class that we have started to go to, perhaps you didn't want to brag about how good we were? ;-)
ReplyDeleteOf course I am talking about Hayley's hip hop. Last year when we attempted a hip hop class we were told we were 'cute', we are still trying to work out exactly what that means - I mean cute and gangsta don't really go together!
And now we are back, two weeks in and I think we can both agree that we are okay at it, and then the music starts....arms and legs go everywhere and the look on confusion on our faces can be mistaken for bad ass gangsta looks, so we have been told!
We have so much fun though and the challenge of learning a different style of dance is fantastic. And as Rita said the best thing about it is all the instructors are so welcoming - smiles on the faces, what a fantastic environment to be in!
PS Medals in 3 weeks - oh crap! :-)
Thanks Bri, how could l forget Hip Hop, the most challenging part for us is all of it, if l can master even part of the routine then l'm happy. I don't know how these hip hoppers do it, it is so so quick and so good for the brain....we do manage to get one or two moves in but we
ReplyDeletewill aim to get better each week. The faces are a classic, we have such a laugh. It is so much fun!!