A First

For me. Teaching while sick. Now, I have done this PLENTY of times, as a school teacher. It takes an enormous amount of work to create sub plans to be out for 7 hours......so at times, you just suck it up and go to work. Well, today I stayed home. After sending the kids off with dad, Cassie throwing a fit because she wanted to stay home with me, I crawled back into bed. From 8 am till 1:45. I have not slept that hard in a LONG time. I must have needed it. Of course, as I sat up, with my head pounding, I could only think, "Damn, where did the day go? I need to do this.....and that......and do this paperwork.....and watch my video again........." and instead what did I do? Grabbed my water, made some soup, curled up under a blanket on my chaise lounge in the living room and watched tv. I even only checked FB maybe twice. I literally did nothing.

As the day quickly wore on, I began to wonder how in the hell I was going to pull it together to teach BodyPump. Wondering how do the others do it? I was thinking that once I was there, the adrenaline would kick in, like it has in the past, and I would be fine. But the pounding in my head wouldn't go away.......popped more Advil, pounded more water, and hoped for the best.

I remembered what Alex said, and walked into the gym with confidence, ready to teach. Janet saw me, knew I was not at school today and asked how I was. My response? "I'm GREAT!" said with as much confidence I could muster. Of course, she knows me well enough to know that I was putting on a show....like Donna suggested, I turned on the Instructor Switch. Let's hope it stays flipped on.

Class went well overall, the faces of the participants are becoming familiar. As a teacher, I have this need to want to know everyone's name and even though I have asked some, for the life of me I can't remember them! There was a guy who came for the first time on Sunday, and we spoke before class and he shared with me that he was still sore, that class kicked his butt! I explained that this class is not like lifting weights on the floor, which he agreed, and he said it was much harder. He struggled a bit during class, actually walked out during squats, and later told me that he bikes to work and didn't want to do more leg work. Then he told me that he can only handle my class once a week. How to respond to that?

It was a totally packed class, 40 or so. We ran out of equipment but I was so out of it that I didn't know till someone told me at the end. I felt okay during class, ears felt weird as I lay down to teach chest, but by lunge time, I was DONE. My bench top kept slipping so halfway through I went to the floor, and I'll be damned, doing the lunges on the floor felt HARDER than on the bench top. Huh???!!! I really don't understand that one. I felt so good during shoulders, though, since I didn't lose any plates this time :)

I did have to cut a bit short.....did all 10 tracks but shortened abs and rushed through the cool down. Don't know why that happened, running short on time, other than that I was moving a bit slower with a foggy head. I'm not beating myself up about it though; I'm just lucky I showed up!!

By the time I left the gym, I was feeling pretty fuzzy, and not in a good way. Head pounding, not much of an appetite. Going to attempt my District meeting tomorrow, with doctor note in hand, to make an appearance and then leave early. I know I won't make it all day, but I feel like showing up, however briefly, is important. Then I'll come home and take a nap.

I will write tomorrow about my video, I watched it last night, saw some things that I am not happy about but hopefully with some additional guidance from Alex, and more practice, one more taping will be all it takes.

Fingers crossed. Eyes crossing too. Off to bed.