Day 118

Valentine's Day was spent at the gym, 2 hours with Ronicia! Most of the songs she did for Funky Line were ones that I had learned before - What Time Is It?, Sexy Back, Girlfriend... yay Leech the expert! I so love the choreography for all of it la.. this is why I leave work on-the-dot on Thursdays and speed to Taipan...

There was a distinctive chinese song trend for Dance Mania, and despite Ronicia saying, "this is my grandmother / grandfather time song..." don't believe her! Unless you think her grandma and grandpa like to "feng tao" also.. kekeke. Dance Mania is really crazy, you can sweat truckloads here because you NEVER stop moving.

In other news, I'm aching all over, thanks to Hot Yoga. Unbelievable, Yoga can cause me joint aches when Combat doesn't! @_@

Over the period of a DAY I seemed to have gained 1kg, I really don't know if I should do weight training now... ish.

Day 107

I've been deprived of dancing... imagine my joy at the prospect of dancing non-stop for a straight TWO hours!!! Who else would have such a class if not Ronicia! My boss and my senior were not around today, so I dashed out of work at 5:45pm. Was in time for Funky Line, and followed up with Dance Mania (which Ronicia calls "Power of Dance").

What can I say... for some reason nowadays I'm less confident about my movement. Feel like I can't remember the dance sequences and I can't imagine why. But going for her class brought back my confidence because the steps were easy and most of all FREAKING FUN!! I was beaming throughout two hours... so happy to have my dancing shoes on again. :)

My favorite funky line movement has gotta be for Avril Lavigne ft Lil' Mama's Girlfriend. The dance steps are to intimidate and somewhat... to cheer someone on also. It's very nice. And when we do it non-stop around the classroom, it's damn nice. Can you imagine a mob of ladies going after someone and telling them "hey hey you you, I don't like your girlfriend?"

Kinda scary actually. :P

And I love Fatman Scoop & Crooklyn Clan's Dance for cooldown. Did it before in Jaya 33 so was more familiar with the steps here. Again, I like rather "aggressive" kinda dance moves, so this one was nice too. Oh, and the remix Sexyback was kinda fun once we all got the hang of the moves!

Dance Mania theme today was more of ... oldies. We had Footloose, Jitterbug (Wake Me Up Before You Go Go) among other early 2000s stuff like Ricky Martin and Las Ketchup. HAhaha, I had so forgotten the Las Ketchup dance! It's kinda stupid but fun to do.

My legs are aching now... and guess what? More dance tomorrow! Hope Jason won't do any new tracks ady... sick of it! :p

Day 89

Was debating between Boot Camp Workout or Body Combat to start my Saturday workout with. Stayed up til 1am still debating, hahaha! On one hand, BCW is new and I can only attend one class a week (the other time slots I will be at work). On the other hand, I've missed BC for the ENTIRE week! On Friday I was supposed to go but I had a gathering @ the office. -___- In the end, no Boot Camp Workout OR Body Combat for me because I woke up late. :P :p :P

Started the day with Body Attack with Jason instead. A really great workout, and I'm so happy to see that I was full stamina ahead for all tracks, from the warm up until Kiss The Sky at the end. I didn't falter during the lunges track although it was one of the "peak" tracks - had a lot of running back and forth, shuffle and lunges. @_@ Okayla, I didn't do too well for the triceps track (Beware of the Dog as usual) but I managed to do 8 tricep push-ups in a row! Ok that is like a supreme achievement for me la.

Jason said that Body Attack is 'known' for being one of the best "calorie burners" in the Les Mills programs. Apparently one session can burn up to 1000 calories... if we do "like him". =P

After that, was eagerly waiting for my Dance Mania class with Danny which I have been looking forward to the entire week (since I missed last Sat's one). So bangang when I found out that it has been replaced with Funky Line with Ronicia. At first I was quite mad because if I knew his class was replaced then I wouldn't have gone to Jaya 33 at all, would have stayed in Taipan the whole day. But then I remembered how fun Ronicia's class for Dance Mania was last Weds, and I thought what the hell, just see how Funky Line is la...

And it was damn bloody good fun! Ronicia was her usual hyper, funky, funny self she really knows how to make us participants enjoy ourselves. We did a few songs - from El Impacto (Daddy Yankee ft Fergie), Everybody Dance Now (Goleo) and some others I forgot. :P About 3-4 movements only. As usual, her cool down track (Almaz) was super dramatic ... damn nice la. Macam ballet dance movements only.

In her own words, Funky Line has nothing to do with the Line Dancing that we know. The only thing that connects the two of them is that Funky Line is "inspired" by Line Dancing's movement from wall-to-wall. The choreo is MUCH simpler, MUCH easier to remember and it's ... funkier la! Not so much on technique like Line Dancing, simple movements but stompin' it out. :)

Thing is now I like Ronicia's classes, and she asked us to "bang Alex's head against the wall and tell him to give me a permanent slot". I DO want Ronicia to have a permanent slot for Funky Line AND Dance Mania, but not at the cost of not having Danny's Dance Mania at Jaya 33!!!!!! All also I want!!! MUWAHAHHAHAHAA.

How la. =[

After that, I drove back to Taipan for Anthony's Body Jam class. Truth is I've never been to his class and I do so enjoy Su Lin's class at Jaya 33 BUT I cannot stand doing nothing for 2.5hours. So I decided to just wrap up my workout quickly by going back to Taipan. Taipan's undergoing some kinda 'renovation' traffic is HELLISH there, so hard to find parking. Some drivers are really stupid and selfish, they suddenly just stop in front of you and you think they are waiting for someone to reverse out but you know what? THEY ARE ACTUALLY JUST PARKING RIGHT THERE AND THEN. WTF. Stupid ah?

So despite having ONE HOUR between the end of Ronicia's class and the start of Anthony's class, I arrived for the start of Body Jam just in the nick of time. Was actually quite curious to see how his class would be like since as I stated above, never went for his class before. But turns out (as fate would have it) it was replaced with Farah. It was an alright class for me... we did :
~ Boogie 2nite + Tambourine (warm up and isolations)
~ Don't You Worry Bout a Thing + Let's Get Loud (Latin Track #1)
~ La Bomba (Latin Track #2)
~ Hip Hop performance track (Drop It Like Its Hot until Mo Money Mo Problems)

Which are all tracks that I like and am VERY familiar with already. But a little TOO familiar lor! I did the hip hop performance track almost 3 times in a row already! At first it was so novel, like meeting an old friend I haven't seen in a while. Now it's like, "Oh it's you again ah!"

Day 80

The symptoms is all there --- laziness, boredom, constantly thinking about FOOD and EATING the food that I think about, short fuse, moodiness, worrying, restlessness...

Think I'm going to get my period soon. -_____-
Which means no gym for a few days. -_______-

Today's Body Jam class got replaced by Funky Line which I've never done before and was in no mood to try. Damn sleepy la... think all my working out is catching up on me, and I'm sure that I'm not even doing 10% of what other people are doing. Sigh... I want to be 18% bfp which is a personal trainer / instructor (female) level... possible with this kind of attitude? Sigh sigh sigh...

I just did "my own" personal training since my REAL pt got cancelled... yes, again.
20 minutes on cross trainer @ level 6. Didn't go too fast, around 7-8 mph
3 sets abductor (40lb, 30lb, 30lb)
3 sets adductor (40lb, 30lb, 30lb)
3 sets chest press (12.5kg, 10kg, 7.5kg)
3 sets of seated row (19kg, 17kg, 14.5kg)
50 sit ups
50 butterfly chest lift
3 sets biceps (10kg, 7.5kg, 5kg)
3 sets triceps (as above) --- think I can raise up to 12.5kg starting point already. Yay! Level up!

That's all for today... must conserve energy for the marathon! :P And tomorrow will be my FIRST boot camp workout class. Hahaha. :)