Posts Tagged ‘Nia’
Posted by terrepruitt on June 11, 2011
So, it is technically Saturday. It is 1:25 am and my company just left. I am posting this Ten Minute Workout place holder for those of you in different time zones and early morning exercisers. Not that early morning exercisers would be exercising THIS early, but I am sure they will be doing it before me.
Today I don’t have a Nia class to teach so I am sure I will be getting to my Ten Ten in Ten much earlier than yesterday. So I will be checking back. And I will also be posting about Tricpes Kick Backs on the BOSU. Fun stuffs. Stay tuned.
Posted in Ten Minute Workout check-in | Tagged: BOSU, exercises on the BOSU, exercises using a resistance band, kick backs, Nia, Nia class, Nia exercise, Nia Teacher, Nia workout, tricep workout, triceps, weekend workout | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on June 9, 2011
HELLO! So here is my Ten Minute Workout placeholder post so that YOU can comment.
I have one reader/friend who is doing the Ten Ten in Ten daily and she might even get her great hubby involved in it. He works a lot but it might be that he can squeeze in ten minutes. Yay!
Another reader/friend was kind enough just to check in. She said she is not doing the 10 minute workout but she is doing her Nia. She just commented to let me know.
Well? Check in. Say hi. Tell me what you have on your schedule today.
In addition to my ten minute workout, I am going to post about the third exercise in the ten — Squats. And I will be back to let you know when I have actually done the quick workout.
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June 9, 2011 at 11:31 am
I am posting this both as a comment and in the main post.
I did my ten minutes. I am getting through it twice and I think there are two reasons for that (one I have stated already, but I am going to keep sharing it). One is that because of my injured foot I am not going out very far on the lunges. You might notice that doing a shorter step is faster and easier so you can do ten quicker. I am working on being completely aware of my right foot and distributing the weight through all my toes — right now that is a huge challenge. Two is — I think — because I am better at getting on the BOSU. I can get on it faster and I know exactly where to put my feet now.
So . . . . what can you tell me?
Posted in Ten Minute Workout check-in | Tagged: BOSU, Early morning exercise, Nia, Nia exercise, Nia workout, squats, ten exericse, ten minute workout | 5 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on June 8, 2011
This is a Wednesday “place holder” post. I am going to teach my San Jose Nia class first then do my Ten Minute Workout. Yes, I know it is only ten minutes, that is the beauty of it. But I like to make sure I have all my “toe strength” (sounds silly, I know) for my class.
But I am posting so that YOU, Dear-Wonderful-Loyal-Reader/Exerciser, have a place to comment that you have done or not your ten minute workout.
When I have done mine I will post/edit/comment (not sure what yet).
Thank you and have a GREAT day!
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I posted this as a comment, but then I decided to put it in the body of the post. I just copied the comment with the date and time:
June 8, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Very late in the day, but I did it. I finally resorted to taking an allergy pill. I took something I had not taken before — Allegra (don’t worry I didn’t take it with fruit juice). Like most medicines for allergies it makes me feel very, very, very lethargic. But, I did it. I was REALLY mellow on the lunges, I didn’t do them as I wanted to when I put them in this workout. I am respecting my toes.
Posted in Ten Minute Workout check-in | Tagged: Allegra, Allergies, allergy medicines, local Nia class, loyal exerciser, loyal reader, Nia, Nia class, Nia in the Bay Area, Nia San Jose, San Jose Nia, San Jose Nia class, teach Nia, ten minute workout | 5 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on June 7, 2011
Ten minutes THEN passion is better than ten minutes OF passion.
WHAT? What is she talking about? 🙂
Often times I write what is going on then when I think about it silly things pop into my head. I am going to go do my Ten Ten in Ten (which has primarily been twenty in ten, but today I am thinking of doing the ten really slow) then I am going to practice Passion which is a Nia routine. When I thought of my plan I thought “ten minutes then Passion” and as I was typing the other thought occurred to me. Yeah, it’s a crazy train.
Did you do your Ten Minute Workout? I know that one of my friends did because she posted on yesterday’s comment. (Thank you!)
Posted in Ten Minute Workout check-in | Tagged: Nia, Nia Practice, Nia routine, Passion, ten minute workout, Ten Ten in Ten | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on June 4, 2011
We do lunges in Nia all the time. We call them the “bow stance”. Different Nia routines have different “lunges”. Sometimes we do them fast, sometimes slow. Sometimes the music allows us to do a deep lunge, sometimes it might just be a shallow or a high one. Lunges are great for the quadriceps and glutes. In my original design of my Ten Minute Workout I wanted the concentration to be in the glutes, so I decided to do a long lunge. A long lunge gets the backside more.
Holding weights down at your sides adds to the work your leg and butt muscles have to do. Standing up from the long step requires much more effort. As a reminder only step as far as will allow you to stand back up. Also be certain that in addition to being able to stand back up you are stable, so your legs are wide enough that you cannot be easily pushed over.
As you step out also remember that it is a controlled step. The foot that is stepping out should land softly and not in a stomp. These do not need to be done fast. When including this exercise in the ten minute workout I was thinking of a long controlled step. The movement is solid and fluid.
The foot that remains stationary ends up with the heel raised (completely vertical if you can get there), weight on the ball of the foot and toes. Since this is a long lunge, the stationary leg could end up with the knee almost on the ground or on the ground.
The idea is to step one leg out then back, then the other leg steps out then back. Alternate legs, each step out is “one”. There are other ways to do lunges, modifications that can be made, but for now, this is the explanation of the exercise chosen to be included in this ten minute workout. Eventually I will post some information on different ways to do the lunges.
What questions do you have about the long lunges?
Posted in Ten Minute Workout (Posts) | Tagged: Ball of foot, bow stace, butt exercises, butt muscles, deep lunge, glute exercise, glutes, leg exercies, leg muscles, long lunges, lunges, Nia, Nia routine, quadricep exercise, Quadriceps, quads, stable stance | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on June 4, 2011
I subbed a Nia Class this morning. Nia is a lot “about” the music. We dance to the music. Today while I was teaching I really just let the music take me and I danced. I didn’t hold back much because of my foot. I don’t put my weight on my right foot when I am in ball of foot position or bow stance, but I was DOING ball of foot (a GREAT step forward in my healing process). During the class once or twice I wobbled or missed a beat because my foot kind didn’t want to support me. At another point I realized I was on the EDGE of my right foot (another HUGE step forward in my healing process). I had enough time in which to think about that and while it seemed ok, I was glad when the music told me it was time to move again because it didn’t seem like I should be doing that for much longer. I really worked my foot this morning. I went all out in Nia class. That led me to not wanting to do my Ten Minute Workout. I was really dreading the lunges because I am not ready to put weight on my right foot in ball of foot position—-and that is what a lunge is!!!
I came upstairs to do it. Then I sat down at my computer, did an e-mail or two and I decided my foot really was too tired to do it. I logged onto my blog to post that I was skipping Terre’s Ten Ten in Ten today, but when I saw the picture of my “gym” I thought, “It is really only 10 minutes. And it is really just the first exercise that you are dreading. So . . . do it LESS. Even more “less” than you have been.” So . . . . I did it. It is obvious to me that I spend a lot of time in my long lunges — when I do them fully on a stable foot — because I thought that I was not going to make it two times through and when I looked at my timer I had plenty of time left and I was on the stability ball pass for the second time. When I do lunges little it takes me less time.
I did my little workout, how about you? What are you finding while you do these exercises?
Posted in Ten Minute Workout check-in | Tagged: 10 minute workout, Ball of foot, exercise, healing process, lunges, Nia, Nia Dance, Nia exercises, Nia Music, stability ball pass, teaching Nia, ten minute workout, workout | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on June 3, 2011
I have a Nia Class to teach today. I decided to do my Ten Minute Workout before I teach. I was mellow on my left step forward in my long lunges because my right foot is still learning to be strong again and so I didn’t want to push it before I teach. I am saving my bow stance for Nia class. But I got my Ten Ten in Ten in (I made it through twice). I left the equipment out in case I want to do it again when I get back.
How about you?
Posted in Ten Minute Workout check-in | Tagged: Bow Stance, exercise, exercise equipment, lunges, Nia, Nia exercises, Nia Teacher, teach Nia, ten minute workout, Terre’s Ten Ten in Ten, workout, workout equipment | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on June 1, 2011
Ok, so I did my ten minute workout. I did it in the afternoon instead of the morning because I had Nia class to teach today and afternoon is the time my schedule allowed me to do it.
I ALMOST did all ten exercises twice in 10 minutes. I was going very fast. I am not able to do the length of lunges I want because of my right toe/foot, so that makes it faster–I think. But I had my list propped up (the list pictured in the Ten Minute Workout post) and I jumped from my triceps kick backs to sit-ups. When I looked up to see what was next I realized that I skipped hamstring curls so I did those. Then I did my sit-ups again. So I got messed up . . . it wasn’t really the sit-ups that messed me up. 🙂 Then as I was doing the last set of stability ball passes, I realized I was counting only on the top touch down.
So, I think that because I was going so fast I was basically able to do the list twice going over by 33 seconds. But YOU do it your way. Slow, fast, heavy, light, whatever you need to do to get moving for 10 minutes.
Ok, so? Did YOU do it today?
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Posted by terrepruitt on May 31, 2011
There are a lot of 10 minute workouts. Ten minutes is really not a long time, it probably won’t get you to any lofty fitness goals, but that is where specificity comes in. If your goal is to run a marathon or bench press 200 pounds then 10 minutes of working out won’t get you there. You need to train specifically for specific goals. Ten minute workouts are good for other things. If you are really pressed for time and just need a quick fix. If you are new to exercising. If you are doing another form of working out and just want to add a little something more. If you are recovering from an injury. If you are just learning a new exercise. If you have ADD. 🙂 There are a lot of good reasons and ways to incorporate a ten minute workout into your day.
There are also different ways you can do a workout for ten minutes. Again, how you do it depends on why you are doing it. If you are pressed for time sometimes just getting through it is what you need to do. That ten minutes will just help you feel like you did something good for yourself even if the rest of the day is jammed packed with a lot of other stuff. If you are just starting an exercise program it could be that getting through ten minutes is all you can do . . . it depends on the workout. If you have a great program that you do, say cardio, like Nia, but you want to add in a little training with weights or additional stretching a 10 minute workout could be perfect. And if you are recovering from an injury it could be that 10 minutes is all that you can do safely. When learning a new exercise it could be that 10 minutes is all that your brain can take at a time. Again, it all depends on why you are doing it AND what you are doing.
Before I hurt my foot, I had come up with a little 10 minute workout I felt was a good way to get a quick workout all over. I designed it to be done with the workout tools and toys I have. I only did it a few times before I hurt my foot. Since I really was having to concentrate on teaching my classes, I pretty much stopped doing everything else. So now I am feeling that a ten minute workout would be great for me because of a few of the reasons I stated above.
The list/workout is what you see pictured here. It is nothing revolutionary it is just 10 exercises that you do 10 times each in 10 minutes. In my next regularly scheduled post (Thursday) I will explain the list. In subsequent regularly scheduled posts (Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays) I will give more detailed explanations of the exercises, modifications, and various things that come up related to this 10 minute workout. And everyday, I will post when I have done it. I will actually be doing some of the exercises in a modified fashion because of my foot. I have to modify my activity based on my teaching schedule and daily activity.
Anytime you want you to can do this list. Post in the comment that you did it too. Ask questions and I will either answer them in the comments or in a separate post. I think this is a great way for me to share some exercises with you. I hope you will join me in this 10 minute workout. Really 10 minutes isn’t that long. Ten exercises done 10 times each in 10 minutes. Ten Ten in Ten. You can do it. And you can let me know when you’ve done it. Ok? What do you say? Are you in?
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Posted by terrepruitt on May 19, 2011
Today I taught Nia. It was not a Nia class, but a one-on-one session. No matter what I am teaching, a class, a playshop, a move, a song, an individual, I always learn things myself. It is amazing. Sometimes I am reminded of something. Today I was reminded of how fun it is to teach someone something new. To explain something in a way that allows them to understand. In some instances it might be the information is received and then there is still learning or “mastering” to be done, but they have the tool you gave them. In some instances they just have it. It just depends on what it is. But it is amazing.
When I am learning a new routine I would love to be able to take a perfect “product” into my class. But there is often a point where I know it is not perfect, but I can’t learn anymore by myself. So I take it into class and usually that first time in that one hour I learn more than (or just as much as) I had learned in the time it I spent getting to the point I where I took it into the class. Amazing. I might have actually said this very thing before in a previous post, so it might sound familiar to you. Or it could sound familiar because you have experienced something similar. Learning as you are teaching. I love that!
Well, it is May and for the past week, maybe two it has been cold and raining here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I don’t mind it so much. Especially since, as you may know, I have a new found love . . . making soups with my immersion blender! The last one I made I made it too spicy and I couldn’t eat it. I was very sad. But my husband loved it which was great because he was stuck eating the whole pot. I was thinking it would be the last batch before the warm weather comes in and I might have been right. The past two days have been pretty warm and very beautiful.
It seems like spring might actually finally be here.
During the cold one of my friends posted a picture of some of her flowers. She had cut them and brought them in the house and posted “At least it’s springtime inside the house.” She inspired me. It took me a few days, but I cut these from a tiny rose bush we have in our yard. These are VERY small roses. The bush is probably not even two feet high.
I just wanted to share. I wanted to share the beautiful flowers, the beauty in a sign of spring, the excitement of learning as you teach, the wonder and beauty of the world. I wanted to share and I wanted to say I am looking forward to living in the beauty that is, and learning as I go.
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