{"id":5775,"date":"2012-12-09T20:14:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T17:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evildressmaker.com\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2015-12-20T22:46:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T20:46:23","slug":"couch-potato-into-ballerina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.evildressmaker.com\/?p=5775","title":{"rendered":"Couch potato into ballerina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nyt tuntuu olevan muodissa ett\u00e4 muoti- ja tyylibloggarit aloittavat erillisen liikuntablogin jossa k\u00e4yd\u00e4\u00e4n l\u00e4pi treenijuttuja, sy\u00f6misi\u00e4 ja annetaan vinkkej\u00e4 muille. Vaihtoehtoisesti n\u00e4it\u00e4 samoja juttuja voidaan k\u00e4yd\u00e4 l\u00e4pi siin\u00e4 tyyliblogissakin erillisen urheilu-osion alla. No guess what. Min\u00e4 en aio aloittaa erillist\u00e4 treeniblogia, enk\u00e4 aio luoda mit\u00e4\u00e4n erillist\u00e4 urheilu-osastoa t\u00e4nne blogiin. Asia kuitenkin sen verran inspiroi ett\u00e4 jotain haluan asiasta sanoa ja ehk\u00e4 samalla inspiroida jotakuta muutakin sohvaperunaa. Saattaa olla ett\u00e4 asia j\u00e4\u00e4 t\u00e4h\u00e4n yhteen postaukseen, mutta jos nyt jotain hirmu ihmeellist\u00e4 tapahtuu niin voi olla ett\u00e4 asiasta tullaan keskustelemaan my\u00f6hemminkin. \u00c4lk\u00e4\u00e4 kumminkaan odottako ett\u00e4 alan antaa mit\u00e4\u00e4n treenivinkkej\u00e4 tai laskemaan kaloreita. Semmoisia t\u00e4ll\u00e4 tontilla ei tulla n\u00e4kem\u00e4\u00e4n. Ikin\u00e4. (Ellen ihan t\u00e4ysin sekoa…t\u00e4\u00e4 oli disclaimer.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nyth\u00e4n on niin ett\u00e4 olen aina ollut liikunnanvihaaja. Jo ihan lapsesta asti. Vaikka lapsena ulkoilin paljon, tykk\u00e4sin hiiht\u00e4\u00e4 ja py\u00f6r\u00e4ill\u00e4 niin en ollut koskaan urheilussa hyv\u00e4. Koululiikunta oli kauhistus ja min\u00e4 olin se joka valittiin jokaiseen joukkueeseen aina viimeisen\u00e4, oli kyse sitten lentopallosta, futiksesta, s\u00e4hlyst\u00e4 tai pes\u00e4pallosta. Sama on jatkunut aikuisena muutamia satunnaisia pistem\u00e4isi\u00e4 lenkkeily-kuntosali-innostuksia lukuunottamatta. Tyypillisesti n\u00e4m\u00e4 innostukset ovat hiipuneet viimeist\u00e4\u00e4n parissa kuukaudessa. Olen “hakannut p\u00e4\u00e4t\u00e4ni sein\u00e4\u00e4n” lenkkipoluilla, punttisaleilla, spinningiss\u00e4, stepiss\u00e4, aerobiciss\u00e4 ja jos vaikka miss\u00e4. Monenlaista on tullut kokeiltua eik\u00e4 oikein mist\u00e4\u00e4n ole koskaan j\u00e4\u00e4nyt sellaista fiilist\u00e4 ett\u00e4 sit\u00e4 olisi jaksanut tehd\u00e4 kahta viikkoa kauempaa vapaaehtoisesti. Jopa vuoden kuntosalij\u00e4senyys jossa kuukausimaksu veloitettiin automaattisesti tililt\u00e4ni ei kannustanut minua liikkumaan yht\u00e4\u00e4n sen enemp\u00e4\u00e4 joten parin kuukauden j\u00e4lkeen olinkin kuntosalille ilmaista rahaa siihen asti kunnes j\u00e4senyys oli mahdollista irtisanoa.<\/p>\n

Faktahan on ett\u00e4 nuoremmaksi ja vetre\u00e4mm\u00e4ksi ei t\u00e4ss\u00e4 kukaan muutu joten alituiselle sohvaperunoinnille on teht\u00e4v\u00e4 jotain. Ongelma on vain l\u00f6yt\u00e4\u00e4 se oma laji johon ei kyll\u00e4sty kuukauden p\u00e4\u00e4st\u00e4 ja jota jaksaa l\u00e4hte\u00e4 tekem\u00e4\u00e4n vaikka liikunta ei muuten kamalasti kiinnostaisikaan. Olen sit\u00e4 tyyppi\u00e4 jota ei voisi v\u00e4hemp\u00e4\u00e4 napata tehd\u00e4 juttuja ominp\u00e4in jos joku ei ole jatkuvasti sanomassa ett\u00e4 nyt tehd\u00e4\u00e4n n\u00e4in ja n\u00e4in ja mahdollisesti viel\u00e4 huutamassa ett\u00e4 viel\u00e4 kerran ja jaksaa ja jaksaa. Ohjattu liikunta on siis enemm\u00e4n mun juttuni, mutta ne perus-jumpat…. HRRR, kylmi\u00e4 v\u00e4ristyksi\u00e4 tulee jo pelk\u00e4st\u00e4 ajatuksesta.<\/p>\n

Tykk\u00e4\u00e4n tanssia. Olen tehnyt sit\u00e4 ominp\u00e4in aina mutta en oikein ole osannut pit\u00e4\u00e4 sit\u00e4 varsinaisena liikuntana (joku p\u00e4\u00e4vamma varmaan)<\/strong><\/span> enk\u00e4 v\u00e4ltt\u00e4m\u00e4tt\u00e4 ole siin\u00e4 mitenk\u00e4\u00e4n hyv\u00e4k\u00e4\u00e4n. Ohjatusti olen k\u00e4ynyt hiphop-tunneilla vuosia sitten ja pidin siit\u00e4. Silloinen ohjaaja lopetti tuntien pit\u00e4misen ja uusi ohjaaja oli niin ankea ett\u00e4 lakkasin k\u00e4ym\u00e4st\u00e4. Tuo vuosien takainen kokemus kuitenkin vaikutti sill\u00e4 el\u00e4m\u00e4ni avartui himppasen verran kun tajusin ett\u00e4 tanssi voisi olla minun liikuntaharrastukseni. Se sellainen josta aina puhutaan, tied\u00e4tteh\u00e4n: tulee euforinen olo ja hyv\u00e4 mieli, pakko p\u00e4\u00e4st\u00e4 vaikka miten sataisi ja olisi synkk\u00e4\u00e4 ja jaada jaada. Mulle tuollaiset jutut on aina olleet ihan vain urheiluhullujen hehkutusta, sellaista jota en koskaan itse tuntisi ja ajattelisin aina ett\u00e4 nuo ovat hulluja nuo himourheilijat. Mutta nyt kuulkaas, nyt ollaan perustavanlaatuisen oivalluksen \u00e4\u00e4rell\u00e4.<\/p>\n

Olen nyt k\u00e4ynyt koko syksyn tanssitunnilla kerran viikossa. Kerran viikossa siksi ett\u00e4 harrastus yksityisell\u00e4 tanssisalilla on aika kallista, mutta ennenkaikkea siksi ett\u00e4 en miss\u00e4\u00e4n tapauksessa halua tehd\u00e4 orastavasta, v\u00e4h\u00e4nk\u00e4\u00e4n kiinnostavasta urheiluharrastuksesta itselleni pakkopullaa. Tanssitunnit ovat olleet l\u00e4hinn\u00e4 aiemmin harrastamani hiphopin tapaista showtanssia ja sen muunnelmia. Minulla on my\u00f6s mahdollisuus niin halutessani kokeilla Pilatesta, syv\u00e4venyttely\u00e4, tankotanssia ja balettia. Pilatesta ja tankotanssia en ole viel\u00e4 kokeillut, mutta eilen k\u00e4vin aikuisten alkeisbaletissa. Siell\u00e4 tehdess\u00e4ni el\u00e4m\u00e4ni ensimm\u00e4isi\u00e4 pli\u00e9it\u00e4 ja piruetteja ja kuunnellessani ohjaajaa mulla taisi viimein p\u00e4\u00e4ss\u00e4 napsahtaa pari ratasta paikoilleen. Vaikka piruetit olivat horjuvia ja pli\u00e9kin varmasti vaatii viel\u00e4 v\u00e4h\u00e4n hiomista niin ensimm\u00e4ist\u00e4 kertaa ehk\u00e4 koko el\u00e4m\u00e4ni aikana oikeasti tajusin mist\u00e4 liikunnassa on kysymys. Siit\u00e4 ett\u00e4 sulla on hemmetin kivaa ja kaupan p\u00e4\u00e4lle saat v\u00e4h\u00e4n paremmin toimivan kropan ja ehk\u00e4 jopa pudotat pari kiloa ylim\u00e4\u00e4r\u00e4ist\u00e4 l\u00e4ski\u00e4 jos hyv\u00e4 tuuri k\u00e4y. Ja tied\u00e4ttek\u00f6, kun tuo ajatus iski mun p\u00e4\u00e4h\u00e4ni siin\u00e4 niin m\u00e4 hymyilin. Leve\u00e4sti!<\/p>\n

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It seems to be popular that fashion and style bloggers start separate exercise blog where they write about their eating and workouts and give tips to others. Optionally they can do the same stuff in their regular blog, on workout section. Well guess what. I’m not going to start separate workout blog, nor do I plan to start exercise section here in my blog. However this issue inspires me enough to write a post. Perhaps that might inspire another coach potatoes to do something. It might be the case that I never return to the issue again, but if there is something going on, there might be other posts about it later on. Do not expect me to start giving tips or counting calories. That won’t happen in here. Never. (Unless I go completely nuts… this is a disclaimer.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, the case is that I have always hated sports, in any form. Even since childhood. Even though I loved skiing and cycling as a kid and loved being outside, I was always rather lousy in sports. That kind of activities in school was just pure torture and I was always the one who was picked last to any team there was: volley ball, football, baseball, you name it. Same continued as an adult, except very short occasional periods of enthusiams towards jogging or gym. Typically these enthusiastic periods were finished even before they properly started, within couple months at the latest. I have been “banging my head to the wall” in gym, spinning, step, aerobics and even jogging. I have tried many things and never ever I had the feeling that yeah, this is the stuff I want to do more than two weeks. Even the one year membership to the gym didn’t encourage me to do regular excersices, not even when the monthly fee was automatically charged from my account. Very soon I was just a milking cow for the gym, until I was finally able to discontinue the\u00a0 membership.<\/p>\n

The fact is that I’m not getting any younger nor flexible, so something has to be done to this couch potato. The biggest problem is to find the actual kind of sports that I don’t get bored with in a month. I am the kind of person who can’t be bothered to do stuff on my own, so I need someone to say what to do and possibly also shout at me one more time, one more time. You know the drill. Sort of guided workout are more my forte, but those basic aerobics…. BRRR, I get shivers when even thinking about them.<\/p>\n

I love to dance. I have done it always on my own, but never sort of thought it actually is workout (must be some sort of head trauma)<\/strong><\/span> and I’m not necessarily any good at it either. Years ago I used to go to this hip hop class and I loved it. My teacher decided to quit and the new teacher was rather dreary so I stopped going. However that experience years back sort of affected my life because I realized that dancing could actually be my kind of exercise. The kind of people always talk about, you know: makes you euphoric and happy and you have to go and do it no matter how miserable weather and yadda yadda. Those kind of stories have always been just stories to me, tales from workout-loonies. But now, now we are facing profound epiphany here.<\/p>\n

I’ve been going to the dance studio hole Autumn now, once a week. Once a week because it is quite expensive to go to private dance studio, but mostly because I don’t want to kill my newborn excitement about working out. These weekly lessons have mostly been similar to my previous hip hop-lessons, like show dance and variations of that. However if I want, I can also try Pilates, deep stretching, pole dance and ballet. I haven’t tried pilates nor pole dance yet, but yesterday I went to adult ballet lesson for beginners. There, doing my very first pli\u00e9’s and pirouettes and listening the instructor, finally couple cogs in my head fell on their rightful places. First time perhaps in my whole life I finally realized what workout actually means. It means that you have damn fun and in addition to that you get your body functioning better and if you are lucky, perhaps manage to loose couple pounds. And guess what, when that thought hit me, I smiled. Widely!<\/p>\n

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Nyt tuntuu olevan muodissa ett\u00e4 muoti- ja tyylibloggarit aloittavat erillisen liikuntablogin jossa k\u00e4yd\u00e4\u00e4n l\u00e4pi treenijuttuja, sy\u00f6misi\u00e4 ja annetaan vinkkej\u00e4 muille. Vaihtoehtoisesti n\u00e4it\u00e4 samoja juttuja voidaan k\u00e4yd\u00e4 l\u00e4pi siin\u00e4 tyyliblogissakin erillisen urheilu-osion alla. No guess what. Min\u00e4 en aio aloittaa erillist\u00e4 treeniblogia, enk\u00e4 aio luoda mit\u00e4\u00e4n erillist\u00e4 urheilu-osastoa t\u00e4nne blogiin. Asia kuitenkin sen verran inspiroi ett\u00e4… <\/p>\n

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