Nevertheless, I woke up this morning feeling very lethargic. I had no drive to go to the gym and probably could have easily decided to stay home today not doing much of anything. Getting my athletic gear on and heading out was an exercise in will power.
But, I did it.
And I'm glad I did.
The drumming class was intense. Again, now that I am in a little better shape I am not sweating as much, nor am I out of breath, but I am still getting a good workout. Especially my leg muscles with all of the squats. At the start I was giving it 110%. Jumping up, getting as low as I could, really working it to the beat. Even attempting to get some rhythm into my moves (I have no sense of rhythm). The instructor is always up at the front swaying her hips and shaking her shoulders and making some of the movements look like we're mid-dance, and I'm all "yeah, I'll just sway my hips awkwardly and focus on the drumming part". No. Rhythm. And to think I used to be a dancer (just not a good one). We finished another song and I thought to myself, wow, this has been a great class, it must be almost over and my legs are killing me. I had gone through my entire water bottle and refilled it. My shirt was a tad wet and I was a tad red in the face and breathing hard.
We were 20 minutes in.
Hehe oops. It was a really good workout. I made it through the entire class, and only toned down the intensity for maybe the last 20 minutes when my legs started to turn to jelly.
I felt like my legs were going to give out under me - again with the good pain. I could tell I had worked the muscles hard, and tonight I am going to make sure I rub them down with the icy gel to prevent any soreness tomorrow.
Now that the kids have finally cleaned their loom bands out of the bathtub (they fell out of a bucket perched precariously on the side of the tub - big surprise) I can actually attempt to clean it and use it. So I may take a soak in the tub to help relieve my muscles as well. If your kids ever ask for loom bands, or something similar - they look like little hair elastics that you loop together to form bracelets and necklaces - DON'T DO IT!! They are a nightmare. The idea is super cool, the colours and the creativity are awesome, they have a blast with it, and then, like most toys, they lose interest, and you have ten thousand tiny elastic bands all over your house. The cats try to eat them, they get into everything, even when the kids are using them they drop a few and those get into everything. And, rubber bands - so not super environment friendly when you're throwing out a bazillion of them unused. Never again. Until next Christmas when they ask for more.
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