http://juliesmallwood.sweat365.com alternative routes to fitness Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:20:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those of you that read my blog (I know there's at least one of you) you may be wondering whats happened to me for the last few months as theres been a complete lack of posting on my part. Well, since the summer I've had a few health issues, which ... http://juliesmallwood.sweat365.com/2008/10/08/couch-potato/ We have Cherry teaching us for the next six weeks. She's a bit of a taskmaster (which is sometimes exactly what I need) - but very good and excellent on the technical details which help you to understand why you need to do things in a certain way. ... http://juliesmallwood.sweat365.com/2008/09/03/trapeze-with-the-lovely-cherry/ Oh how much happier I am in this class compared to the other. We had the school owner in the class today - i think she was assessing our teacher. Took the class at my own pace though as still not all that well and don't have the strength or ... http://juliesmallwood.sweat365.com/2008/09/02/pole-the-old-school/ Still didn't like the group. Felt very bored - and I Think part of this is due to being too advanced for the level but the other is because the teacher has to split herself between the beginners, the intermediates and now, an advanced student as well. So ... http://juliesmallwood.sweat365.com/2008/09/01/pole-the-new-school/ It was so nice to be back with the girls again after having time out from this class. Same girls and lovely nicky teaching us but a new location. The place we used to have our lessons in was sold, so we moved to a place in the ... http://juliesmallwood.sweat365.com/2008/08/26/trapeze-old-school-new-location/ http://juliesmallwood.sweat365.com/2008/08/13/trapeze-3/ My gym has started to offer pole dance classes , so as its across the road from my office, I decided that it would be nice to try out a new school. Seeing as the advance lessons are on a Friday night, I decided to join the intermediates class, knowing that ... http://juliesmallwood.sweat365.com/2008/08/11/pole-a-new-school/ http://juliesmallwood.sweat365.com/2008/08/07/bungee-trapeze-07-aug-08/ http://juliesmallwood.sweat365.com/2008/07/24/bungee-24-july-08/ After conditioning - which I didn't skimp on for a change, this week was mostly about learning transition moves. First up was the X. Where you stand on the bar and, with the ropes behind you, get them to cross into an X-shape, before sliding out backwards with the bum ... http://juliesmallwood.sweat365.com/2008/07/23/trapeze-a-big-old-streak-of-yellow/