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sophiapAnd, since I have time, I'll make something like a proper entry.
Nothing strikingly new and exciting is going on in my life, but it seems like my job at work is settling more into something that feels more like a directed career path. Also, things feel less stressy even though I'm going to be in the land of 50 hour work-weeks for a while.
Started Pilates classes last night at the Y. I signed up because a) someone I knew was taking the classes and b) it seemed like a good complement to the weight lifting what with the body awareness, and the building of flexibility, balance, and core strength (PSA: Pilates does not give you 'long, lean, dancer's muscles.' That's a load of marketing crap). I had a good time at class. The abs work was tough in much different way that my usual weighted crunches, but what really killed was the hip work. My hip flexors tend to scrunch up like whoa, but this may well fix it--if it doesn't kill me first. I was pleased at how much I could do. I don't think I could have done some of the excercises this time last year. The biggest challenge for me are the excercises where you have to do one thing with your legs and something different with your legs--I get the whole "can't walk and chew gum at the same time" thing going on.
Nothing strikingly new and exciting is going on in my life, but it seems like my job at work is settling more into something that feels more like a directed career path. Also, things feel less stressy even though I'm going to be in the land of 50 hour work-weeks for a while.
Started Pilates classes last night at the Y. I signed up because a) someone I knew was taking the classes and b) it seemed like a good complement to the weight lifting what with the body awareness, and the building of flexibility, balance, and core strength (PSA: Pilates does not give you 'long, lean, dancer's muscles.' That's a load of marketing crap). I had a good time at class. The abs work was tough in much different way that my usual weighted crunches, but what really killed was the hip work. My hip flexors tend to scrunch up like whoa, but this may well fix it--if it doesn't kill me first. I was pleased at how much I could do. I don't think I could have done some of the excercises this time last year. The biggest challenge for me are the excercises where you have to do one thing with your legs and something different with your legs--I get the whole "can't walk and chew gum at the same time" thing going on.
