Day 29

Started the workout session with a 25 minute run on the threadmill. Yes! I made it to 9.4kph again! Sweat like mad, and I hafta say I felt like giving up many a time, but I persevered because this time I had my ipod run list. :D Rammstein is surprisingly NOT good to run to, but My Chemical Romance stays as a "good run" song. Their latest song - Teenagers is especially good for warming up before the run itself.

Got to work 3 x 12 for leg extensions AND leg curls. Only a few sets because I then had to rush off for Body Jam. But it was replaced with Line Dancing with Sharon. I truly felt that it was *fated* for me to go for Line Dancing that day, having rushed for Mei Ling's class, but ending 30 minutes too late. :P (Hence the threadmill). So I went in... foooh, loads of regulars in the class, so I was seriously intimidated. Especially when they insisted on doing "Rudebox", which from the preview first 2 eights was FREAKING DIFFICULT.

Luckily, Sharon decided to do I Don't Need a Man (which she calls deal or no deal..??!), which was simpler, but line dancing being line dancing, still confuses me loads. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy my first Line Dancing class, but you simply couldn't compare the two experiences. For one, my first class was at the end of the month and was specially for regulars to repeat all the songs they had learnt throughout the month. Sharon could coach us n00bs many many many many times , and in fact, she split the class into two - the ones which can do "4 walls" and the ones which couldn't. So it was a sweet deal, managed to get the hang of it by the end, although I would miss a step here or there, and I'm sure the technique is all outta whack.

We ended with what she calls "money money" (or is it mony mony) which is an "oldie" song. For the life of me, it's very famous but I can't remember the name or the singer. Anyway, she said it was easier because this was only a "1 wall" song, (which means you don't turn around and go in a circle repeating steps,because at the end of the count, you're facing front again).... but there were a LOT of counts in the song. However, it was much easier and more enjoyable compared to I Don't Need a Man because there was more "feel" to this song. It's easier to grasp the steps for this one because it was more intuitive for us to know what the next step was going to be. Wah, it was so nice, and to think I nearly walked out of the class seeing the number of regulars! :)

I really wanna go for the next line dancing class now... =p

Day 8

Finally ~~~ my period came. :p But I think there's a difference in the weighing scale between FF and TF. TF's one makes me heavier by about 0.6kg. Ok la, just a small amount. But it feels so strange to see myself further away from my goal. Please don't think I'm making a big fuss over it... or that I'm deluding myself. I always thought FF's scale weighs heavy because when I was in CF, I was UNDER 50kg already although FF said I wasn't. Sigh. I also don't know la. Follow whatever gym you're in, I guess.

Anyway, since today was the 1st day of my period, I decided to go slow. Ran up to 9.2kph on the threadmill because I was late for Wave class. Not my fault... decided to change the start date to June 07 instead of July 07 and didn't expect it to take so long. And then my membership card also isn't ready as they only thought they needed to prepare it at June end. Can't blame them la. I just hope that the period of time of me showing my IC to the front desk doesn't last that long. Can't be fun for front desk people to keep keying in my IC to see the "updated profile". =\

I made a mistake designing my threadmill run playlist (I have 3). The 1st one is okay, as I blogged about it before. The second one had a couple of rather, un-pumped up songs. Or songs that I thought was pumped up but not that good to run to. Like the Jay-Z / Linkin Park "Dirt Off Your Shoulders" remix. I thought it was good to run to, but it's so not. -__-" For me, the songs that are nice to run to are usually really feng tao / punk rock songs. Today's good run songs were Good Charlotte's The River, Frank Ferdinand's Take Me Out and House of Pain's Jump Around. :)

After that, I decided to go for Line Dancing. What a mistake! Apparently at the end of the month, the instructor will dedicate the class to all the experienced members by having a "review" of all the dances she has taught them throughout the month. So basically there were like 5 unfortunate n00bs like me, and everyone else could do the steps after 1 set of repetition. O_o Oooh.... I'm damn intimidated, but I really like the choreography. Especially for Sexy/Back. The songs for Line Dancing are also really nice to listen to. ^_^ But I'm SOOOO bad at it and it seems like everyone is super duper advanced... *paiseh*paiseh* I keep wondering, why do I find this so difficult and Body Jam so much easier? (Gotta state here that even Jam has a few technical steps that I stumble happily about in too, but I'm 100x more lost in LD than Jam) I think it is just because of ONE item, which is that Body Jam has a lot more repetitions of the steps, and it builds up slowly in the song (like the 'performance'). And you ALWAYS get the easy option first before you get the more complicated moves towards the end. LD is TOTALLY not like that. Straight away you get 3 - 5 8 counts and then you keep doing the steps and rotating round and round (another confusing factor). Wahrao.

But I am DETERMINED to go for more Line Dancing class. The soundtrack is just damn nice! :D And at least I learnt a few new steps today... like "weave". :P