Stretch It Out

A four day weekend has just ended. What a rare thing to experience, and all thanks to wondrous snow. Thursday early morning it began, and did not end until late that night. The whole town was blanketed with the white snow, closing the school for two days.

This altered my work out plan for Friday, seeing as the REC center was closed. But I worked something out last minute, and coerced my ex-dance major friend, Alyssa, to teach me something. So we had a 30 minute session, with lots of stretching then some unchoreographed dancing around her living room.

The stretching was very relaxing. I'd done most of it before, since I had taken a dance class back in High School (it's so nice to say that: 'back in High School'). Honestly, stretching become a big habit for me. I made it a goal to stretch every morning after the dance class had ended, a habit which ended sometime in the past 6 months. I would feel the urge to stretch in the middle of conversations or class, and would look rather silly. It's just so relaxing. Even writing about it, I've had to pause and pull on my arms and roll my shoulders. The power of association.

Alyssa did show me some real painful stretches, but pain leads to an even higher sense of relaxation. It really makes me want to do yoga, which I plan on this next week, so wait to read about that.

Besides the Friday dance session, I went to a Turbo Kickboxing class at the REC last Monday, and a Glutes and Guts class Sunday night (Valentine's day). Kickboxing is basically just bouncing around, punching and kicking the air, but it's so much fun! And the Glutes and Guts was pretty intense, but I pushed through it.

Well that about wraps up my weekend. Although there was a lot of running in the snow, which could count for some kind of exercise. And a few friends and I were building a huge fort, making snow blocks out of big plastic tubs, so that could count as lifting weights. And Saturday I went to a dance. Definite cardio up in there.