With school work, a social life, sorority meetings, and finding time to study all piling up, I have found it extremely hard to make time to go to the gym. Keeping up with scheduled workout classes and even just going to the gym on my own has become a huge struggle. I find that I never have time to go. However, I was able to go this week and, let me tell you, I have never felt better afterwards. My roommate and our friend went together and spent an hour in the gym and then went to the washboard abs class. I was expecting the class to be extremely difficult due to the fact that I had not gone in so long, but to my surprise, it was not that bad. I have always worked on abs at my dance classes at home, so taking a break from the classes felt like a weird adjustment. Finally taking the class again got me back into the routine of wanting to go each day; well, every other day (if I’m lucky).
Since I have been very inconsistent with attending dance practices, I have been working on cross training. Gaining leg muscle is essential in dance, as you have to be able to have the strength to get through high-intensity routines. Squatting and leg presses have been my go-to workouts in order to build this muscle. Each time I go to the gym, I add more weight to my workout. To my surprise, I am not as sore as I thought I was going to be and have began to gain even more muscle in my legs. I really hope to keep up with this, as being a college student is very stressful and time consuming. I am planning on setting aside days and times in which I can go to the gym, allowing myself to stay on a strict schedule and be able to follow through with it.