So. I did a workout video this week. 10 minute workout solutions - the perfect amount of time for me. I decided on the Dance Moves Fat Burning something-or-other series and began to follow the instructor. But silly me, I thought it would feel more like dancing. I thought it would feel more fun. Instead, it felt like aerobics, the kind where my uncoordinated self is five steps behind and looks like a certified dork.
In college, I took an aerobics class with Dottie Haugen, one of the physical education professors. Dottie was in her 60's and had been teaching at my college for quite a few years and she was AWESOME! She had such a passion for physical activity as a way of loving our bodies, as a way of staying healthy in all ways (physically, mentally, spiritually). And Dottie's enthusiasm was contagious - you couldn't help but feel positive and excited in her midst. Her aerobics class was a hit and she just exercised circles around all of us 20-year-olds. But I loved this class because the aerobics routines weren't so complex or challenging AND she used a lot of Christian songs from the 80's and 90's. Now, I don't LOVE Christian music, much less from the 80's and 90's, but these songs were so fun and the aerobics moves were so easy to get, that I could just move. I could just exercise and it felt like dancing. I didn't have to think, just move. I could even sing along. I think I even remember some of the moves to one of the songs (Lift Up the Lord). I'm positive that in this class, I looked, yet again, like a dork. But it was such fun, felt so uplifting, to use a kind of corny word.
So, after this week's aerobics workout that just felt like aerobics, I went ahead and ordered some Sweatin' to the Oldies. One of my childhood friends had these and we would "workout" to them in 5th grade. And while Richard Simmons is a fruit loop of the first order, I thought this might be as close as I could get to good ol' uplifting, dancing, singing along exercise fun.
It also, most certainly, solidifies my status as dork in the realm of exercise. So be it.
3 comments:
You know what else you could do, have a dance party! Download a 15 minute playlist of fun, upbeat songs (Walkin' on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves is a great song!) and just dance around the house! It doesn't have to be specific dance moves, you just gotta jump and wiggle around and your heart will get a pumpin'. Calories burn whether you're dancing around your kitchen or following a DVD instructor. :)
Haven would LOVE a dance party I'm sure!!!
i cant wait to sweat to the oldies with you!
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