Showing posts with label tribal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tribal. Show all posts
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Today's Inspiration
Alicia of BellyCraft has always inspired me. Here is a clip of one of her latest performances.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Today's Inspiration
A great performance by Rachel Brice showing great muscle control as well as the great Rachel style.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Muscles That Hurt and Flying Skirts
I was so tired after troupe practice last night I forgot to post a blog. I'll get this out before my day starts and we'll just forget that it is a few hours late. Okay?
So I did Shape's Bikini Body Countdown workout for only one round. I think I should be up to two rounds starting next week. It is still kicking my behind, and abs, and back. Okay, every muscle hurts right now, but in that delicious after burn sort of way. I also did one round of HIIT during my walk. Once again, I should be able to up that next week to 2 rounds. I'm going to up it one round a week til I reach 4 round of HIIT with each walk. Each round of HIIT I am doing is 14 sets of 10 second sprints and 30 second rests. This happens to correspond with how my GymBoss is programed for BBC so I don't have to sit down and mess with the programing, I just have to get my dog on his leash and go.
Troupe practice was loads of fun and hard work as always. We are working on a new piece of choreography that Ariellah started but never finished. It will be added to our steampunk set for this year. So far it is pretty fun and I love being able to use our gothic moves. Up to this point, we have used a lot of West African and Romani dance moves. As we are a gothic troupe, getting to use our foundation move excites me.
Also last night I bought a skirt from my troupe leader that she no longer wanted. It was a normal 25 yard skirt but she had added satin trim to the bottom hem of it. This addition turned it into a flying skirt! A simple way to do this is to use satin blanket binding at the hem. This is actually what a lot of belly dancers did back in the 60's and 70's for their skirts. Right now my only other 25+ yard skirt is all satin so I don't want to add a heavier weighted fabric to the hem. It is already an arm workout! Any cotton skirts in the future will get this treatment for sure.
Well, off for another day. I have to get my costume together for a preformance tonight as well as my normal Thursday.
Huggs!
So I did Shape's Bikini Body Countdown workout for only one round. I think I should be up to two rounds starting next week. It is still kicking my behind, and abs, and back. Okay, every muscle hurts right now, but in that delicious after burn sort of way. I also did one round of HIIT during my walk. Once again, I should be able to up that next week to 2 rounds. I'm going to up it one round a week til I reach 4 round of HIIT with each walk. Each round of HIIT I am doing is 14 sets of 10 second sprints and 30 second rests. This happens to correspond with how my GymBoss is programed for BBC so I don't have to sit down and mess with the programing, I just have to get my dog on his leash and go.
Troupe practice was loads of fun and hard work as always. We are working on a new piece of choreography that Ariellah started but never finished. It will be added to our steampunk set for this year. So far it is pretty fun and I love being able to use our gothic moves. Up to this point, we have used a lot of West African and Romani dance moves. As we are a gothic troupe, getting to use our foundation move excites me.
Also last night I bought a skirt from my troupe leader that she no longer wanted. It was a normal 25 yard skirt but she had added satin trim to the bottom hem of it. This addition turned it into a flying skirt! A simple way to do this is to use satin blanket binding at the hem. This is actually what a lot of belly dancers did back in the 60's and 70's for their skirts. Right now my only other 25+ yard skirt is all satin so I don't want to add a heavier weighted fabric to the hem. It is already an arm workout! Any cotton skirts in the future will get this treatment for sure.
Well, off for another day. I have to get my costume together for a preformance tonight as well as my normal Thursday.
Huggs!
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Burning Can Be Good
Today I was running a little ragged after yesterday's activities. It used to be that this would cause me to take it easy and do nothing. Instead I pushed myself. I helped my mom load up her truck with downed branches between my split shifts. After the work day was done I used Rachel Brice's Practice Companion DVD. I did the 30 minute session. This is where the burn comes in.
Tribal Fusion: Yoga, Isolations and Drills - A Practice Companion is a great DVD if you have not come across it yet. The only thing I wish is that a DVD exactly like this would come out for classical Egyptian as well. It is broken down into time increments that you can chose from; 15, 30, and 45 minutes. There is also a play all feature, but I don't know the run time on that or how it differs from the 45 minute practice.
After a yoga warm up, Rachel started in on the drills and isolations. Since they are all done without level changes or foot movement, my thighs started to notice. Not just notice, they started to BURN!! I actually had so stop some of the drills because my thighs needed a break. I guess we know where my weakness is now. It was also not that bad in the calorie burning arena for me as well. According to my heart rate monitor, I burned 249 calories during this session. All in all, it will be in my regular rotation at 30 minutes till my thighs get up to par. Then I'll try taking it up to the longer practice.
Tribal Fusion: Yoga, Isolations and Drills - A Practice Companion is a great DVD if you have not come across it yet. The only thing I wish is that a DVD exactly like this would come out for classical Egyptian as well. It is broken down into time increments that you can chose from; 15, 30, and 45 minutes. There is also a play all feature, but I don't know the run time on that or how it differs from the 45 minute practice.
After a yoga warm up, Rachel started in on the drills and isolations. Since they are all done without level changes or foot movement, my thighs started to notice. Not just notice, they started to BURN!! I actually had so stop some of the drills because my thighs needed a break. I guess we know where my weakness is now. It was also not that bad in the calorie burning arena for me as well. According to my heart rate monitor, I burned 249 calories during this session. All in all, it will be in my regular rotation at 30 minutes till my thighs get up to par. Then I'll try taking it up to the longer practice.
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