Athlete in Rhinestones: Archive

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The Goddess Project (dance & fitness training log)

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 *Ballroom dance lesson with M.S. 2 hours. Addressing how quickly my step goes to the heel on heel leads and how to smooth that out so there are no “bumps.” No dumping of sides, which usually is from foot sliding too quickly and rib tipping. Spent quite a while on shaping of my left side when in promenade. Worked on controlling how I come down from rise,...

Feb 29th

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The Goddess Project (dance & fitness training log)

Monday, February 27, 2012 *Bellydancing: 1 hour. Leila of Egypt dvd for beginners. Sections on arms and hip circles.Yes, I’ve been dabbling in this sporadically for about a year. This morning, I had the overwhelming urge to bellydance. Even dolled up with black, liquid eyeliner (which I’m usually too inept and too chicken to wear) and smoky eyeshadow (which I don’t do all that...

Feb 28th

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Feb 27th

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The Goddess Project (dance & fitness training log)

Friday-Sunday, February 24-26, 2012 Friday *Ballroom dance lesson with M.S. 2 hours. Standard & Latin. Very enlightening Standard practice. Great to have the feeling that I am leveling up and constantly improving and refining. Starting to use my feet very differently and my shins are screaming at me, “Go back to the old way! It got you around the floor, didn’t it?” Very...

Feb 27th

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Feb 25th

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The Goddess Project (dance & fitness training log)

Thursday, February 23, 2012 *Ballroom dance practice: 1 hour. Smooth, Standard & Latin. Concentrating on muscle control: lifted, zipped abs; knitted rib cage; engaged glutes so that feet never get floaty across the floor. *Cardio: 35 minutes. Matrix exercise bike. Intervals program. 30 minutes at Level 6 with a 5-minute cool down at Level 1. Covered 8.41 miles in 30 mins + .98 miles in 5...

Feb 24th

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Feb 23rd

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The Goddess Project (dance & fitness training log)

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Mardi Gras *Ballroom dance lesson with M.S. 2 hours. Branching out again. A year focused on just American Smooth and International Standard certainly did help those styles progress at an accelerated rate for me, and because they suit my lanky build so well, I struggled less with essentials, laid the ground floor more easily than in Latin or Rhythm. The focused approach...

Feb 22nd

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Feb 21st

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Feb 21st

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CrossFit Games Champion Rich Froning →

CrossFit fascinates me for general fitness training. It’s certainly not for everybody and would send many newbies fleeing for their lives, but I’m trying to learn more and more about it. Planning to give it a go once I have my upper body strength levels built back up to their autumn peak. Not that I’m a weight-training beast — eh, no, I have a lanky, wiry build that...

Feb 21st

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The Goddess Project (dance & fitness training log)

Sunday-Monday, February 19-20, 2012 Sunday *Ballroom dance practice: 2 hours. American Smooth & International Standard. Kind of low energy this morning and ready to give up after 90 minutes, but I powered through. Monday, Presidents’ Day and a Snow Day (mostly) *Cardio: 45 minutes. Matrix exercise bike. Intervals program. Level 6. Well, until the half-way point. Then, I had to level...

Feb 21st

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Feb 17th

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The Goddess Project (dance & fitness training log)

Wednesday-Thursday, February 15-16, 2012 Wednesday *Yoga: 20 minutes. Dvd: Power Yoga with Rodney Yee. Power Foundations section. These postures were a great release for the glutes and hamstrings overworked by the Brazil Butt Lift dvd I did yesterday. Thursday *Ballroom dance lesson with M.S. 2 hours. Teacher has had the flu for almost a week, but he is a trouper and came back as full-speed as...

Feb 17th

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Fabulous, Swing playlist →

bristolswing: 1. The Boilermaker Jazz Band - Hey, Good Lookin’ (5:07) 2. Carsie Blanton - Baby Can Dance (2:56) 3. The Puppini Sisters - In the Mood (3:12) 4. Dean Martin - How D’ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning? (2:48) 5. Eileen Barton - If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked a Cake (2:39) 6. Gloria Jones -…

Feb 16th

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Feb 15th

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The Goddess Project (dance & fitness training log)

Sunday-Tuesday, February 12-14, 2012 *Sunday Ballroom dance practice: 1 hour. *Monday Ballroom dance practice: 1 hour. Danced with a weight-training, resistance band stretched across my back, hands pressing each handle outward/forward with equal pressure. Yowza! My back muscles may never be the same! It really demonstrated much more fully than my teacher’s explanations and frequent...

Feb 15th

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Feb 14th

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LOVE & All Things Lovely →

OK, last night and today I ran a little amuck gathering images of Valentines and hearts and love and lovers and flowers and cupids, oh, since it’s my fave color anyway, red stuff! You can find it on one of my other blogs, “A Vision of Loveliness.” It’s a visual repository of some of my favorite things, which I find lovely and inspiring and provocative and, sometimes, just a...

Feb 14th

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