The last thing we had today was Yoga. It was quite fun, but very, very difficult, and painful. We started by doing all the normal stretches, then we got to the tough stuff. The worst one was the cobra, you have to lie on your stomach and arch your back lifting your shoulders up. Everyone was collapsing. To end it all we had to relax and clear out minds, while at the same time thinking about relaxing each muscle and slowing down your breathing, a bit of a contradiction if you ask me. Most people fell asleep, and like me awoke at the end to find that because the room was so cold we could no longer feel our toes… let me tell you its not a good way to wake up.
Well I have to go have dinner now,
Sarah
Dear Diary,
Well I think I’ve discovered I have some muscles I never knew about before. Every morning I wake up with even more aches and pains than the morning before. I think that by the end of this week I’ll be as stiff as a board. Well I guess I’ll stat by telling you about yesterday first. To start with we had another Cardio blast, but this time it was more difficult. Well used all the same equipment as last time, except this time we also used the reclining bikes. I think they were the worst part out of the whole thing. Don’t let the word reclining fool you into thinking that they are relaxing and not much of a work out at all, because you’ll be sadly mistaken. After only one and a half minutes, which is only about 45 seconds of the actual work out (there is a warm up which is so simple you may as well not bother doing it) the back of your legs will be screaming out for you to stop. I can’t remember what muscles were used, but I’m pretty sure that I will still feel the consequences tomorrow morning.
The next thing we had was a fitness challenge with a guy who works a California Fitness called David. He made our whole group (40 people) hold a rope taught in a big circle while Marco walks along it. And yes the rope was in the air. It’s a lot easier than it seems, but sometimes he paused too long, and so the people holding the rope in that area were nearly collapsing. Another ‘challenge’ we had was for the entire group to stand in a circle so our heels were touching, then we had to sit down! So the person in front of you was sitting on you and you were sitting on the person behind’s knee. If you did it properly it was meant to work, and the weight would be shared throughout the circle, but since we didn’t do it properly we just all ended up falling on top of each other.
Last of all we had body pump. It’s sort of a mix between aerobics and weight lifting. Ms Wathall was our instructor. To be honest I wasn’t really trying that hard when we were doing it, I was too busy laughing at how stupid we all looked. Only about 10 out of the 40 people could do it properly, everyone had such concentrated looks on their faces it was funny, especially since most of them were getting it wrong.
So now onto today. We started with another fitness challenge, but this time it was pretty boring, no where near as fun as yesterday. Before lunch we had Body Combat, lead by Ms Wathall’s husband Ken. Straight away we found out that he sweats enough for all of us combined, and that was only after the warm-up! His sweat got into the microphone and stopped it working, which was quite funny. The body combat was quite fun, but we kept having to do all these under-cut jabs (or whatever they were called) really fast, which made us all crack up laughing because it looked like we were trying to do a 100m sprint by only using our arms and not moving our legs. For lunch I went to Subway with a bunch of people, but I can’t be bothered to write down all their names.
Last thing we had Pialttes, which is kind of like yoga, but it has more stretches in it, I mean the sort f stretches you would normally do to warm up. It is just as painful as yoga is. At the end we had another relaxing time, and I fell asleep, again.
Well I think I have written enough for toady.
Sarah
Dear Diary,
This has to be quick because I have to go out soon. The first thing we had was spinning with Ms Wathall. Spinning it just like the stationary bikes, so I don’t know why they gave it a special name. Spinning is difficult because you have to stand up and ride and things like that. It also makes you sweat a lot… Then we had presentation practice, except we didn’t practice. We decided that we well just choose someone (hopefully not me) to stand at the front of our group and do body pump or body combat and everyone else will just copy them.
The last thing we had was Para-Para dancing, which was crazy because none of us wanted to learn it, besides if we did we could just go to an arcade and play on one of the dance machines. The guy looked a bit strange, he was wear very queer clothes… but the most annoying thing was that he never stopped smiling, I mean I didn’t see that cheesy grin leave his face the whole hours (I think) he was teaching us. Well we found out who the rubbish dances are anyways, one of them is me, but that’s no big surprise, I knew it already.
Sarah
Dear Diary,
Today was our last day of focus week! I don’t want it to end now! I guess y attitude has changed a lot since the beginning of the week.
This time we were in TST (I don’t know how to spell the name). I prefer the one in Times Square; it’s not as big, and a lot less confusing. For the first part of the time we just messed around on the machines, which was pretty boring because all the fun ones were taken already. Ms Wathall actually told a group of us off about our attitude, apparently we have been unenthusiastic all week… I don’t think so though. After that we had hip-hop. It’s a lot of fun, even though I look stupid like I always do when I dance. The guy who was teaching us was really good though, and so was the dance he taught us.
After lunch we had to give our presentations, and like I though we would my group stuffed up, even though we did actually end up planning part of it. We started by doing one of the teamwork activities we had learned in the fitness challenges, and then we went into a dance. Since I was on the back row I just copied the people in front of me, and as I found out later so was everyone else around me. The only little problem was that the people in the front row couldn’t remember half the dance… you can guess what we looked like. Anyways, there were two guys, one on each side of the stage, and they were going to do a whole lot of body combat and body pump, they had this whole routine organised. Everyone who was doing the dance started running off the stage cause we all felt so stupid, and the guys had no clue what was going on, the had only been doing their routine for about 20seconds. Well it was funny when it happened.
Well that was my week of focus week, in general it was quite fun, but I doubt I’m any fitter!
Sarah