Hi this is me again,
I just come from the gym, I have started this weight losing with quite a lot of sports (compared to absolute zero that I have been doing for the past year), my weekly plan right now looks like this:
Monday: gym for 1 hour (bike and that thingie that is sort of like a mix between going up steps and walking... ok not very specific i know, plus some stretching and toning), 20 sit ups twice a day.
Tuesday: contemporary dance class (lasts 2 hours), 25 sit ups twice a day.
Wednesday: stretch and tone class (1 hour), some extra stretching and abs training (maybe 20 minutes), 30 sit ups twice a day.
Thursday: Pilates class (1 hour), 20 minutes bike, 20 minutes stretching and abs, 35 sit ups twice a day.
Friday: yoga (1 hour), 20 minutes bike and 20 min stretching and abs, 40 sit ups twice a day
Saturday: 1 hour of roller blading pushing a stroller with a 2 year old in it(I guess pushing a stroller is part of the exercise since not only my legs do work but also my arms), 45 sit ups twice a day
Sunday: off! and recover from that week! plus 50 sit ups twice a day.
ok that is this week. all of the following will probably be similar (hopefully I will be able to maintain that amount of sports and not chicken out like I usually do), only that monday and tuesday might change around. oh and the sit ups, as you can see are going up by 10 a day.
I have been waniting to share my dance experience for a while and I have some time now so here it goes:
i started dancing when i was tiny, maybe 3 or 4 and then stopped after a little bit because the teacher scared me. took it up again at 14 (after I quit martial arts which was very hard one on one training 3 times a week), this time doing jazz and tap and contemporary. later i started taking ballet although I had to work 10 times harder bcause everyone else had started at 3 or 4.
At 17, after finishing school, I did a dancing degree, I had ballet, contemporary ballet, jazz, tap and funky lessons, plus some strange classes like "jumps", "pirouettes", "toes" and "walk". I enjoyed it although it was very hard and I was very tired most evenings, I danced about 5 to 7 hours a day 5 and sometimes even 6 days a week. At 19, already applying for "real" colleges, like my mom calls them, I joined a musical, as background sort of and enjoyed it inmensely!
When I started doing full time dance I was already chubby (well I had always been...), I thought so much sport would slim me down but it didn't (I did eat a lot of wrong stuff between classes I guess...). I didn't care much although of course I dreamed of being thinner. Had I been thinner they would have chosen me to do more roles maybe, they would have let me do pas de deux (when two dancers dance like a couple thing... but you almost always need to be lifted! so nothing for me, they always chose the 90 pound girls over me at 130!!), I could have maybe stayed in dance... but well I loved my time there and I do like my life now after it.
But it is hard not being like everyone in that kind of thing and also sharing about it... when people talk about their hobbies and I say I danced they look at me like they don't believe me ("yeah sure the fat girl was a ballerina... hahahaha").
My dance teachers never talked around my weight (and as said I was 130 pounds at 5''3/5''4 so i wasn't huge!!), they told me "if you are that fat you need to make up for it and be special in other ways", but they also saw things in me (in contemporary dance my teacher said I was gifted and had I started earlier I could have been huge on stage! and they must have seen something to even admit me into the course) and sometimes did see past it ("you don't suck because you are fat mila, you suck because you suck!" nice quote from my jazz teacher after i got the 100th jump wrong!).
I think that dance is a hard sport for people who are no lightweights, and the pressure there is huge, we had so many anorexics in that place!! seemed to be a factory of them!
but i really hope that some chubby kid saw me dancing (like I saw the most beautiful dancer who was well bigger than all of her counterparts) and thought: "man she is great! i can be great like her! no matter if i am not perfectly thin and slim!"
ok that is it for today, i have a 2 hour singing ensemble meeting (i love singing too, generally music, it is my passion!!) and then i can finally go home, tomorrow i will be so sore from todays work out, i can already feel it, but i know that if i work through the soreness the pain will disappear!
love mila
