Originally this was run everyday for a month and then I remembered how much I hate running every day. I could go a solid 15-20 days, but I would just get more and more annoyed with running. I never became one of those people who loved running and got the runner’s high. I just got pissed and would drop running everyday and do it every couple of days a week instead. I’ve tried so many times, but no matter how many times I have tried I just can’t make it a full month.
Which led me to changing it to a different form of cardio that I actually like: Dance! Listen, I don’t need to dance well to dance everyday. I can line dance, salsa, hip hop, flail about like an idiot, etc. Dance as a form of consistent cardio was way better for me because though dance was consistent the type of dance was ever changing and I never got stuck in the state of mind I did when I was running.
It was so freeing to spend an hour everyday to dance. I wasn’t trying to impress anyone, I was just doing something to better myself and it allowed me to have fun. Dancing is fun and you don’t have to be good at it to have fun and get a good workout in.
1 Million Dance Studios always inspire me to learn their hip hop choreos and dances. I can always bust out a line dance the moment country music touches my ears. Somewhere deep, deep, deep inside me is a Latina and I swear when I hear salsa or reggaeton I try to call upon my inner Puerto Rican and get those hips going (note: it doesn’t go well, but it is hilarious).
Doing this challenge gave me a hate for running, but a love and passion for dance. I think it worked out much better that way.
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Commit and Venture 
Dancing is so much fun when you’re locked in your room and no one can see how you move very awkwardly!! I love to dance in my room but get stuck sometimes because I don’t know any routines and when I watch youtube videos I can never remember the routines for later. I had the realization the other morning as I was still laying in bed trying to wake up that weirdly I love to jump. I’m planning on getting a jump-rope! I just to love jumping rope! I just need to get over my neighbors watching me jump around. At least if I do it in the back of the house only one neighbor would really see. The only one we talk to, but still…Also think I should get a hula hoop. Hula hooping was fun too! My mom has a weighted on but it has like bumps on the inside which is stupid because it’s super painful. Like why are they there?? Plus hula hooping is potentially something I can do in the living room. I normally just do HITT for exercise. We also have a cheapy stationary bike I’ve ridden a handful of times, but it’s cheap so after riding for so long it gets hot and really really hard, like impossible to keep going. Have to take a break every five minutes to let it cool down a little. I miss riding my bike too. That was fun.
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