Dancing

When I first started this blog, I used to enjoy dancing.  I'm not really good at it, but I think dancing is really fun.  I bought a bunch of dancing exercise dvds, like Dance Off the Inches and a few Crunch dancing dvds.  I also used to play DDR a lot, because it's a really fun workout. 

But over the last ten years (almost exactly - the last dancing post was from Jan 2009), I stopped dancing.  I don't really know what happened; dancing just stopped being something that I did for some reason.  :(

I did try zumba in 2013 and 2014, but didn't really talk much about it for some reason.  That was probably the last time I was regularly dancing.  I stopped (even though I enjoyed it) because I was frustrated that the instructor would sometimes cancel the class because not enough people showed up; that didn't work for me because I had to back off on insulin to get through the class.  If there was no class, I was left with my glucose going high and feeling like crap.

So after that I kind of just stopped thinking about dancing, but then earlier this week, I read a book where the main character danced a lot.  Her dancing reminded me more of martial arts (but I know martial arts can be compared to dance in a lot of ways, so that really wasn't a big deal).  While reading the book, I started wondering why I had stopped dancing; I started thinking that maybe I should start again.  For one thing, I haven't been doing a lot of cardio, and dancing is good cardio.  But more importantly, it was something I used to really enjoy. 

So I decided to try adding some dancing back into my life.  I still have all my exercise dvds, and DDR.  Plus there's nothing wrong with just throwing some music on and dancing for awhile.  So all this week, I kept thinking about doing some dancing; on Thursday night, I finally actually did some!  I put 10 Minute Solution Fat Blasting Latin Dance Mix on, doing two 10 minute workouts. Then yesterday I played DDR Universe 2 for a half hour and wow was it hard!  I haven't seriously played DDR in years (I've just played a few songs at the show's arcade every here and there).  The last time I played Universe 2, my weight was actually under 200lbs, so that was kind of shocking to see - I could probably move a lot faster as a result, lol!  As much as I know that I sucked (the game kept telling me afterall, lol!) it felt really good to play again. :)

I don't have a set plan yet for how much I want to be dancing every week; right now I'm just going to try adding it back into my life and see how things go.