Sunday, March 4, 2012

Contact

No, I'm not going to talk about one of my favorite movies, Contact. Good guess though!

I am here instead to follow-up on my last post about kickboxing. I decided to sign up for that ILoveKickboxing.com class, buying the internet special of 3 hour-long kickboxing sessions plus boxing gloves for $19.99. It is a pretty sweet deal if you ask me. Because I was being a big sally chicken, I convinced my friend Lauren to sign up with me so I didn't have to go alone. On Friday last week we went to our first class!

After warm up (a little too long for my tastes) we did some sit-up/push-up exercises with a medicine ball and then spent the rest of the time jab/cross-ing and roundhouse kicking the stand-up bag. I don't know about Lauren, but I felt super powerful smashing and bashing the bag - it kept moving across the floor with my uber powerful jab-cross-hook-hook moves. You know, cuz I'm bad ass - clearly. Not because there wasn't enough weight in the bottom of the stand...pfffff <waves hand in dismissal>. Obviously!

Unfortunately, they didn't have our gloves for us, so we had to use the "community gloves"...which was disgusting. Sweaty meat hooks were flying everywhere, so the hand sanitizer came in nice and handy after the class. Sorry next person to use the gloves I had, I left a residue for your hygiene pleasure. Yay for me, I sweat enough to soil the gloves - boo for the next person <shrugs>.  Rusty, our instructor, said they would have our gloves next time we came. I am hopeful :) I will say that the only other downer was I learned more about form and what to do from my 1990s Billy Blanks Tae Boe videos than I did from our instructor, but that's fine with me for $20. More than anything I'm proud I went to work out - woot!

Oh yeah, to answer the obvious question: Yes, I am sore. Specifically, my right shoulder and my 3rd left ab. I'm looking forward to our next class, this Friday!