Mysterious Ways

OK, went to my dance class tonight and it was fantastic. My hips? They officially hurt. But I learned how to shimmy - which surprised me that it comes from your feet and not your stomach or hips. It's going to take a lot of practice to get used to it but I am sure I'll manage. We did a lot of hip work today though and though in bellydancing hips look like a fluid movement, it's actually quite a sharp movement. In salsa dancing you roll your hips more, this is more like slamming car door shut with a sharp side move. The odd thing is, most people have trouble with snake arms but that came quite naturally to me.. Far more so than the hip quake or whatever it's called.

I really love this though and I can easily see sticking with this for a long time. I had just as much of a burn in my arms as I did at the gym this morning, so it's not only an art form and giving me a little bit of confidence in coordination, but it's quite a workout.

No rest for the weary though. I've got lap swimming tomorrow morning and was going to do the circuit training but honestly - after an hour of hip and shoulder thrusting/quake and snake arms I can give my muscles a rest for a day. Not that lap swimming is exactly relaxing but at least I can loll around in between sets and enjoy myself. I might go to another class tomorrow anyway - one of my girlfriends wants to go again and another wants to try it.

Is this not, in all honesty, an extremely exciting entry?