What constitutes Evolving?????

So, yet again I fell off the wagon and allowed myself to get WWWWAAAAAYYYY overweight and out of shape. Do I blame it on my running injury? I could but that wouldn't be entirely true. I was allowed to do other exercise except for walking or running and once Aqua Zumba was finished I basically quit! Not a very good thing to do. Even when I was allowed to walk 20 minutes every other day I did it without much umpfff!

Well, that concept is now changed. I am back on track and have been moving pretty much all week. Last Saturday I did the Anthem Great Pumpkin 5k which was my first ever race so I plan to do it every year while I can! My neighbor Shannon and I did a Walk/Run pacing 2 minute walk/1 minute run. I have to say I was very pleased with our time. I wanted to finish around 45 minutes and we did just that! I was a great day for a race and we had a great time participating in it!

On Monday I didn't do too much working out due to not feeling very well and having a sick little girl but I did some stretching and lots of walking up and down the stairs to keep her happy!

Tuesday I took a tabata class at Reston Sport & Health. HOLY COW!! Can I tell you, that class will KICK YOUR ARSE!! It was a lot of fun, very hard but well worth it!!

Wednesday I popped in the P90X Kenpo DVD. Definitely interesting and one heck of a workout. I was sweating like a pig 1/2 way through. I hadn't done that one before so I was in for quite and experience. It is another interval type exercise program but with a martial arts background. I was punching and kicking my way to intense cardio activity!! I really did like it even though I felt totally lost trying to perform some moves, not that the moves were hard because they are all pretty basic, just getting my body to do the move was the idiotic part! Hello, you know how to jump and you know how to lunge, why can't you do it together? AHAHAHAHA!! The DVD was only 35 minutes so I wanted to get a little more exercise in so I popped in a GAIAM Balance Ball workout. Basically using the ball and your body weight to exercise. Hello People! You DO NOT NEED hand weights, your body weight is enough to really give you a good workout. Try putting the balance ball under your knees and doing pushups!! Gravity helps to give you the extra push to many that exercise just a bit harder!! I ended up doing about an hour of exercise so I was pretty happy!!

Last night I decided to go OLD SCHOOL and pop in the DVD from when I first became a Zumba instructor. I went over the basic moves to SALSA, MERENGUE, CUMBIA and REGGAETON. It is very interesting how after so long of doing something with lots of flair and flavor trying to do the basic moves is harder than you think! HA!! I went over the basic moves for about 30 minutes and then did the 20 minute quick fix workout which expanded on those four rhythms. To finish off the workout I practiced my song that I am doing at tonight's Zumba class over and over to make sure I have the moves down with the cuing so no one is lost!!

I am happy to be back exercising but I really need to push myself more to run. I start physical therapy again tonight for my back/leg issue, so hopefully this will help and I will be able to run pain-free!! Fingers crossed!

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