Dance Dance

I was having motivation issues yesterday.

I know that I need to change into work out clothes either, as soon as I get up in the morning or as soon as I get home from work. It is the only way to make sure I am actually going to work out.

I did not do that yesterday.

Instead I sat there and watched Criminal Minds, surfed the internet for awhile, and finally thought I should find a workout, but nothing was really doing it for me. My plan was to get up in the morning to do 30 Day shred, so I was looking for cardio. Since it was like 5:30 by this point, I wasn't going to go outdoors to run. This winter is shaping up to be much colder than last year, so if I do run outside it will probably be in the middle of the day before work (until I get a full time job that is).

Eventually I stumbled on Julianne Hough's workout on Youtube. It's broken into like 8 parts or something. I had a feeling it was going to be too hard to follow. But I stuck it out through at least the training bit, and the first song. She goes way to fast in the actual workout. I may keep trying it once in awhile to see if it gets better.

But I knew I still needed some more exercise so I ended up youtube-ing some just dance and dance central songs on easy.  Some are not much of a workout at all, but the songs for the easy levels are kind of fun - like  Vanilla Ice. But I was also able to find Lady Gaga and Black Eyed Peas on easy too. I ended up doing those for like an hour.  It's a bummer that there isnt' the game aspect so there's no telling how bad I actually was. And at first I felt kind of stupid, so I wasn't really getting into it. But by the end I actually had to make myself stop because it was getting late and I needed to eat.

It makes me want a Kinect even more. I am sure I would be dancing all of the time! I am going to try to save up and see if I can't get one reasonably priced on Ebay for my birthday in April. I don't want to buy one in the store because they make you get a subscription for $15 a month and I'm not paying that much. (Edited: Just read on the web that a new XBox will likely come out for the holidays 2013, which means, perhaps I should wait a year before buying one when everyone who upgrades wants to get rid of their old one...hmm)

I didn't end up getting up early to work out this morning. I have to be on the road at 7am to work at 8am until we go back to non-holiday hours. At least I am working. I thought with reduced hours and the union rules I wouldn't be working at all until mid-Jan. So at least it's a paycheck. I know I used to be able to get out of bed at 5:30 to workout. But all I can think is that my downstairs neighbors will hate me.  Once I have a normal full time job I may go back to working out then, but right now I don't have to make them miserable if I don't have to. In less than two weeks I can start getting up a little later and working out in the morning.

30 Day Shred when I get home this afternoon for sure though.