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[afuna]

Went swimming today with my cousin. Oddly, I didn't feel tired at the pool, and my muscles weren't aching. But once I got out, I couldn't walk without wobbling. And for the next few hour (until I dragged myself up out of bed for dinner *G*) I couldn't keep my eyes open.

Have forgotten how good that feels :)



So now my cousin and I are thinking of doing dance classes. Got some vouchers for three days unlimited so we're taking a sampler plate approach: a bit of everything (so: hiphop, zumba (?), pole, belly... what in the world is belly hiphop? *puzzled*)

I'm curious, also excited, also I know that I'd be mortified to do any of this on my own, which is why it's great that I'm egging on my cousin and my cousin is egging me on.

I don't expect to be good at anything, but hopefully this should be fun! (If nothing else even if I'm the worst dancer in the class, my cousin is approximately as bad so we can be the worst together)

Comments

[branchandroot]

what in the world is belly hiphop?

*hazards* Belly dancing to a rap beat? Lots and lots of stomach muscle isolations?

[afuna]

Apparently, something like this!

(c/o pinesandmaples

[branchandroot]

O_O Just watching that, my stomach muscles are going "...not tonight, honey, we've got a headache".

[afuna]

Ahaha, yes.

(Though oddly enough looking at them and how good they are, the fact that I *know* I won't be able to do anything even remotely close just makes me anticipate the class even more :D)

[yvi]

Meh, not available from my country *sighs*

[afuna]

Oh boo :/

It's basically three women in skimpy, glittery clothes dancing with a lot of *wavy hands* sinuous / bouncy movements.

[pinesandmaples]

what in the world is belly hiphop? *puzzled*

I had to know. Youtube tells me that this video is a representative sample. I didn't know workouts were supposed to be so...scintillating.

[afuna]

Oh my. We are going to look ridiculous. It shall be amazing.

[niqaeli]

Being in the water takes the weight of gravity off joints and muscles; I find that I always feel heavy and wobbly and exhausted when I get out of the water even if I haven't been swimming, just floating in the water -- for awhile.

[afuna]

Mmm, yes. I feel now that I have to swim more, just to get more of that buoyant feeling. So relaxing -- so good :)

[jeshyr]

I get the same thing and I think you're right about the anti-gravity effects of being in water. I had to stop doing pool stuff as my phisiotherapy exercises because I couldn't reliably judge an amount of exhaustion that would leave me enough energy to get home safely and kept overdoing it dangerously and then struggling to get home :(

Whiiiiiich reminds me I'm skimping on the physio again ... ahem. Don't tell anybody OK?

[afuna]

(Nobody will ever know from me!)