I'm pretty exhausted. Being sick for more than a week, plus working and being hunched over testing kindergartners, and teaching lots of BodyPump makes for one tired lady.
Tomorrow I'm subbing for Kristin at 9:00 am and I need to sleep. I've been watching my videos again in preparation for my final taping on Sunday. I need to nail this. I want to be done with it so I can alleviate some of the stress I'm under. I'm not nervous about it, but I've had such specific feedback about my technique that I'm beginning to wonder if I can remember it all and hit everything. It's a lot to remember!
Today, even though I had it off and I needed a rest day, I felt the urge to go to the gym and do some mirror work. I was surprised when Franklin said he'd come along and do it with me. I've been trying to get him to try my class but he's afraid of not being able to finish, which is a valid fear but there are many participants, (myself included before I became an instructor), who need to take breaks during tracks. I mean, I don't think I ever finished a lunge track until more than two years of taking the class!
We set up in the GX room and it was surprisingly hard to coach him. Maybe I was conscious of the people using the room, and the music was playing on my phone because I wasn't going to use the stereo. We could both hear it alright and I wasn't too concerned with the coaching, mostly the cueing and the thrill of actually seeing myself in the mirror again. It's not a matter of vanity - I have not watched myself and my form other than in videos for so long. It's a strange sensation teaching in front of 30 people and not being able to see your form and technique - you have to FEEL it and trust that you're doing what you are coaching. It was good to see myself again! I need to do that more often.
Franklin was a champ. He struggled, especially with work that had us on our knees. I put him through the entire class except the chest track, as I didn't feel like I needed to practice that one. Lunges and squats were hard for him, and the clean and press. He has seen me practice HUNDREDS of times, heard the music more than that, watched my class from outside the Group X room, seen my videos........but he said the greatest things to me when we were done. He said, "I have way more respect for you now", and "I'm SO proud of you" and "I'm so impressed" and "It looks so easy from the outside - it kicked my BUTT!". It was so nice to have that validation from him. He still doesn't feel ready to join me in a real class but I figure if I can get him to practice with me, get him to feel more comfortable with the technique and the choreography, then he will come. Right now it is midnight and he is at the gym with his friend, for a two hour workout. He has been going 5-6 days a week. I mean NIGHTS. They are nuts but like to go when it's almost empty and get their workout in. Whatever works for them!
I am very sore. I will have to lower my weights tomorrow for class, but I am treating it like I am taping, in preparation for Sunday.
Yawn. Off to bed.
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