Dancing Is Just the Body Loving Itself

I am currently reading the book, South of Broad by Pat Conroy.  He's the one who wrote The Prince of Tides, which Barbra Streisand made into a great movie more than a decade ago!  In one of the chapters of this book, I found this really great quote which exactly matches how I'm feeling these days whenever I attend my hip hop workshop!

"Don't be afraid to make a mistake. You learn by making mistakes. You get better by making mistakes. Let yourselves go. Don't think. Just dance. Just let your bodies go. Dancing is just the body loving itself."

JB of G-Force Poppers Teaches Body Party by Ciara

Cute, straight men should never dance to Ciara's Body Party! Do they know how f*****g sexy that song is?!! 

Di ako makaconcentrate kanina kasi our teacher JB, was making giling to the left, to the right, to the front, on the floor and multiply that with the other trainees including cute Kevin on my left, OMG, birthday ko ba at may nagiistriptease na boys around me?!

Lovin' Life Through Hip Hop

I can say I am really lucky to have a BFF in Mabel who also loves to dance Hip Hop.  It's not exactly an activity someone in their 40s would do but it has been something we have been doing for almost ten years now, thanks to the talented instructors we have met in Fitness First ABS.  

One of them is Genesis and today, we danced to his unique hip hop choreo once again, albeit, even if just for an hour and a half.  I had to adjust though to Gen's 'different' style of 'counting', which is not counting, just going with the beat of the music - a style which is not used by most of the instructors I know.  Syncopated steps can turn off many gym goers but for hip hop addicts like us - it was pure heaven!

Anyway, it was great to see many familiar faces there including several of our Northberkz friends who came to have a Jammin' good time as well.  It was a good thing though that I did not do Body Jam anymore since my body is not strong enough to do all of those exercises for more than three hours!

Lost Six Pounds Due to New Body Combat Release

I weighed in last night and I was at 210 pounds, six pounds lesser than I was two weeks ago, before I did these extensive three times a week class of the new release of Body Combat.  I normally just do this class once a week, but since it has a lot of leg extensions and really long bouts of punching, I decided to take it seriously and after nine sessions, those six pounds of fat melted away! 

Well, I did diet, a little, of course, and did some weights too and some Body Jam and Hip Hop classes, but I think they just contributed maybe 30% to the whole loss, since the new Body Combat release is so tiring, I'm sure it drained out most of the unwanted calories away.

I think there's one or two more weeks for the new release to be played so I'll just have to take advantage of it before they resort back to the mix and match.  Let's see if I can take out 4 more pounds in two weeks time!