Zumba is dance/exercise. While I protest I'm uncoordinated, people who love it insist I'll get better over time-and what better time than now? It's no pressure on the hand at all.
The last fitness center I'm revisiting is Fusion of Movement, and their Zumba/Core/Weights fusion class. I took it the first week of March, and owners Ben & Sasha agreed it would be easy to modify.
I was rather worried about breathlessness today, and fretted about it last night. Turns out my fears were misplaced; my hand should have been the bigger concern.
Think of a whip.
Where is the energy when you snap it?
The tip.
Where is the energy when you throw up your hands?
Trust me-it's in the middle metacarpal.
So Zumba with a still very sore broken hand is not a good match. Add to it accidentally smacking your hand on your thigh...yeah. Well, it was worth a go.
Weights-I simply did the movements without them to (had I used only one that would have meant I wasn't square and risked injury.). It did give my shoulder and arm a nice workout since its been pretty inactive for three weeks. Core-loved it. I now have one, and it rocked. I even let rip a yow like Sasha does.
Overall, it was a success. I sweated, I moved and my hand survived. I only drank 1/3rd of my water, and the air monster was a no show.
My very first goal was to defeat the air monster.
Done.
The class was not easy, but my breathing was. I even did low planks with hip taps!
13 1/2 weeks. Three months.
Doesn't matter how long it took-I made it. The air monster?
He's gone.
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