Exercise for Writers – part 2
Writer? Finding it hard to exercise? Check out Part 1 of Exercise for Writers, and then do continue… Number 3 Appreciating exercise as a way of exercising the imagination. So with No1 and 2, you’re multi-tasking to maximise efficiency of a passive exercise (watching/listening) with an active exercise. But there’s definitely a split in concentration [...]
The ‘E’ word (for writers) – part 1
Oh yes, today’s subject is… exercise. Yes, for writers. Though I’m a fitness professional, I hardly ever talk about the E word by choice – mostly because people seem to want to talk to me about it all the time, generally hoping for magic fixes. Go away, there are none. Unless you’re Steve Rogers. But [...]
I (won’t) Surrender
Life lessons learned from kicking ass I’ve just started teaching Body Combat 46, which features Cadence’s I Surrender. It’s the last power-training track, the finale where you storm your class home in a furious battle of adrenaline vs fatigue. It’s a stompingly epic track, all the more so for instructors because of the performance given [...]
3Ness: Booiaka!
Slogans are in. On the bikes it was all about ‘don’t just ride, feel the Vibe!’ Saturday’s highlight, when I was awake, was jumping around, shaking my ass and shouting ‘Booiaka!’ No, I don’t know what it means either, but trust me, that stopped no-one. But my enthusiasm for Booiaka has me running ahead. Saturday [...]
3Ness: Got the moves, just not the groove
Your 3Ness weekend consists of hourly slots presenting a choice of 6 activities held in the massive conference rooms, outside, the pool or smaller therapy/lecture spaces. Friday offered three slots with seven on Saturday and four on Sunday. Theoretically, that’s a serious amount of boogeying. On arrival, like the big square I am, I took [...]
3Ness: Executive Style
3Ness weekends run from Friday midday to Sunday 2pm, which is very civilised as one can theoretically sleep in (ie anything past 6am) on Friday and be home on Sunday in time for pre-birthday cocktails at Westbourne House. But Friday had an discouraging start. A person investigating what it’s like to be a single chick [...]
3Ness: Genesis
I often wander around the Sky grounds in my gym gear – usually by accident, else by sheer laziness – which sometimes leads to curious conversations started by men in suits or otherwise more appropriate professional wardrobe. One afternoon, while advertising Adidas over my assets, I was the one to start the curious conversation with [...]
Nostradamus got it wrong
Two weeks ago, work was so exciting that I pimped myself out to Marketing in desperation – before Hollie pointed out to me that I was about to take six days off (“That fitness course you’re doing – remember that? It’s next week…”). Marketing were pleased to see me and passed over a few programme [...]
The re-education begins…
24 Feb 2009 The ‘Sieren & Rael’ rewrite is… going. Clearly not well enough to seduce me away from the procrastinatory evils of blogging, but going nonetheless. At this point in time I genuinely cannot tell whether it’s getting better, or being murdered outright. Writing blows sometimes. I had literally too many choices for my [...]
Things I’ve learned today
1. aerobics instructing is MUCH harder than it looks 2. mirror reversing lefts and rights turns me inside out and upside down 3. practicing aerobics until midnight in the VL will bring the person in the room below yours nervously to the door 4. scientists actually don’t know all the answers, such as why a [...]