Body Tone

Dudes. I just got my butt kicked big time by a small Asian woman this morning. My body aches. I feel exhausted. I think she may have been on speed...
I went to an aerobics class this morning. I'm trying to figure out why this class was so hard to get through for me. Let's see, what could it be? Perhaps the fact that my exercise program over the past several years has been very off again/on again. Or could it be that when I do exercise, my 30 minutes of walking on a treadmill plus the sporadic upper body workout doesn't actually serve to increase my fitness? hmm. I would say my bare minimum 30 minutes of exercise a few times a week probably wasn't cutting it - and that describes my good weeks.
As it turns out, you actually have to work hard if you want to progress in the area of fitness. Go figure.
Due to the lack of viable outdoor exercising options in Cebu, Andrey and I broke down several months ago and got memberships at a cheap gym. It's basic but has all the elements. The only major issue is the lack of adequate cooling. The air cons kinda work and in the very small class area there are no fans or air cons blowing in that direction. That may play a part in how overheated I get in these classes. I seriously thought I was going to die today. And I felt this way 15 minutes into the class! Well at least I have something to work up to. I'm considering donating a huge fan.
I do feel motivated however because I have always enjoyed classes at gyms. Our gym has several aerobics classes, one that integrates latin dance moves and another that is a hip hop dancing class. There's also belly dancing and Tae-bo/Latin dance combo. I'm excited to try them all. So far I've only done the regular aerobics and the Latin dance one but they were fun and made me work hard. I'm excited to try the hip hop class soon. It looks like a lot of fun.