Good
midnight night owls!
Today
I’m posting incredibly late because I didn’t really know how to
talk about today’s subject: training alone during the holidays.
I’ve
talked about having breaks before (you can check my «Disconnection»
post if you’re interested) but today I wanted to talk about the
active part.
This
week we’re having a short holiday in my school but we’ll have
quite a lot of rehearsals when we come back as well as performances
in Fellbach, a «Romeo and Juliet» performance and two exams
(improvisation and Spanish). So I can’t really take it as a full
resting holiday because my body takes a little more time to get back
in shape than some others and by that I mean that my balance takes a
couple of weeks to get aligned. 😅
Anyway,
I’m sure dancers out there know that sometimes having a week off is
great but if you don’t do absolutely no physical activity of any
kind you feel how your body kind of craves it after some days. Well,
at least this happens to me sometimes!
So
during this holidays I decided to train on my own doing a full class
and going to the gym afterwards.
My plan
consists of going through a full pointe class at the studio (because
I need to break in several pairs of pointe shoes as I run out of them
completely before this holiday). I take an easy barre that really
gets me warm and let’s me work my feet the most to get a good
articulation when I move into center.
Today's Snapchat breaking in pointe shoes
In the
center I always practice several turns both sides, a full adage and a
pirouette combination and then some «tricks» such as Italian
fouettés or regular fouettés en tournant. I do a couple of jump
combination and then I move on into practicing variations.
Today
for example I went for a run through of Paquita Principal variation
and I also went over Carmen as it’s my bachelor work variation
(I’ll tell you in a future post what’s this bachelor work).
Afterwards
I headed to the gym were I did a basic routine that I think works
pretty well for me but of course, I’m not a professional trainer so
I might be doing it quite wrong actually! 😅
I
always go for an easy cardio on the cross ramp for a good fifteen to
twenty minutes at a good rythm. No resistance but about fifteen to
twenty points of actual ramp. Because I have a chronic knee injury
it’s not really recommended for me to run so I alternate between
elliptical, cycling and cross ramp. My typ to not make it so boring
is getting some video playing while you’re working out so you don’t
look at the timing or the distance which makes it feel much longer
when you don’t have any kind of music or entertainment going on.
In case you were wondering what a Crossramp machine looks like 😂
Afterwards
I do a light leg work out on. I use the inner and outer thigh machine
with 32 kg resistance. 3 sets of 10 reps each for inner thighs and
the same for outer.
I move
into Bulgarian squats with 2 sets of 10 reps for each leg and last I
do some donkey kicks and side leg raises (also 3 sets of 10 reps for
each leg).
At the moment I'm using 3kg dumbells. I know, very light weight, but little by little!
I then
do an abs workout that I took from Pinterest that I’m liking a lot
at the moment. It’s my third day trying it and I already feel much
centered. I always do planks and some Russian twists before I start
my class but doing a full ab workout with weights and specially yoga
balls (this ones train your full core like nothing else! TRX are also
good for some high intensity core workout) really makes a difference.
I do different reps and sets for each exercice
My minimum is 2 sets of 15 reps each.
After I
finish I try to stretch for a good ten minutes trying to avoid the
soreness that I might have the next day (yes that happens even if I
workout everyday, I still don’t know why) and then I’m good to
go.
That’s
my training routine at the moment! Do you like it? Would you try it?
Tell me what you think down below!
I hope
you enjoyed this very short post and don’t hesitate to give
suggestions down below!
I’ll
see you tomorrow!
Love,
Muriel
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