Before I had my kid last July, I had loved going to a body combat class (under the Les Mills line of classes) but the instructor has since given up the class and I am unable to find any others here in town. I went a little illegal and downloaded the instructor classes and I've started doing them at home, but I've noticed I missed the group fitness environment. Honestly, it's too easy to fast forward through squats when I'm in my living room. I really only do them when peer pressure and giant mirrors reflecting my wide hips and lower belly back at me are factors in my work out. Thus, I decide to look into other group classes. Coincidentally, my mother in law just started going to a Zumba class close to home. I must admit (and my one follower can corroborate) I owned Zumba VHS tapes (VHS people - or person since I doubt many people are reading this) back when I was in college so when she brought it up I was curious. It's a big fad going on in town, but I wanted something with upbeat music and a lot of other chubbies that wouldn't judge me. So Monday I went to my first class and luckily I liked it. The studio is only two months old so it's all in good shape and the instructors are young and fun. I was used to the Les Mills format, where no mater what class you go to, the same song means the same steps everywhere, so I was a little disappointed when the steps varied by instructor. But the good part to that was if I didn't like one routine, then I might like the other. Bad part is my brain learns the routine and I start doing squats when others are doing some jumping jack steps. The price isn't bad, $40 for unlimited classes for a month, only issue is that with the husband starting school again soon my chance of going daily like I have this past week will be gone. The alternative is $25 for 10 classes or $4 for each individual class. I think I might do the month first and see how many times I can make it out and then switch the the 10 class option once he starts school and I can only go 3 or 4 times a week. Then I can do my bootleg kickboxing videos on the nights I'm can't go to class and hopefully that will work out to work outs at least 5 days a week.
So now that I have the diet to work out. I have taken the first step of cutting out all the really bad crap I was eating, namely daily trips to either McDonald's, Wendy's or Taco Bell. The has helped with the weight and I've lost a couple of pounds already so we'll see where I wanna go from here. I've done low carb diets with a lot of success in the past, but with a 10 month old and the husband, I'm not sure how much time I'll have to cook and shop. Of course, that's an excuse so I must work through all of those, too. This will be the goal for this upcoming week. Until next week...
The Chubby JLo
Link to the Zumba studio's FB Page...
http://www.facebook.com/AdanesnesFitness
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