I know it sounds odd, but I have been thinking about what the release of the new Cize program means to me. {In case you're not familiar, Cize is a new program Beachbody released that is a dance program designed to help drop pounds! Plus, it's super fun! I am loving it! It doesn't even feel like exercise to me! In fact, so much so, I signed up to become a Cize instructor!} So, all that to say, I have been thinking about this new program and what it means to me.
See, all of my life, I have danced. My mom put me in dance lessons at age 2. I continued all the way through high school and was on the dance team in high school as well. Once I hit college, my dancing consisted of fraternity parties and the Neon Cactus once in a while. {Um, not so much to either really. It wasn't the same at all!} Dancing is therapeutic for me. It makes sense to me, I understand it, I get it. It's how my body works. Now, sports....not so much.
I was cut from the volleyball team in middle school and to be honest, since that time, I have not considered myself an athlete. When they say in some of the Beachbody videos I've done, "think of yourself as an athlete," that doesn't resonate with me, because in my mind, I'm still the girl who got cut from the volleyball team. Sure, sports were part of my high school experience, but I don't feel like I was good at them. I swam my senior year {who does that for 1 year? Apparently, me.} I also played tennis, which I wasn't great at either. But, I did dance and that was my "jam," if you will. Running, ugh. Not so much. Part of me thought to be an athlete, I had to be a runner. That's not me. It's not my thing, I don't enjoy it. One bit. So there!
So since February of 2013, I have worked out consistently 4-6 times/week doing various Beachbody programs. I've done 21 Day Fix, 21 Day Fix Extreme, TurboFire, PiYo, Les Mills Pump, I have Insanity Max 30 but didn't complete the whole program, tried T25 {not my thing, too athletic, maybe?} and now Cize. Since becoming a coach, I have heard of others talk about their "soul mate workout," and wondered what mine was. Sure, I've enjoyed Turbo, PiYo and some of the 21 Day Fix ones, but to say they were my soulmate wouldn't have been totally true. I think Cize is it! When I'm Cizing it up, I'm in my element. I feel confident, comfortable and know what I'm doing. Plus, at the end, I'm a hot mess so I know it's a great workout too!
I've been thinking a lot about what I wanted to be "when I grew up." When I was a kid, there were three things on my list;
1. Be a mom who drives a mini van {not sure why?} - ✔
2. Be a business owner - ✔
3. Be an aerobics instructor - soon, friends, soon!
It might sound funny to say but Cize has been healing in a way. It brings back the good parts of my childhood that I seem to have forgotten. One of my former dance teachers reached out on facebook when she saw I was going to be certified, so that was fun too! It's nice to know there really are exercise programs available for everyone now. If you're not an athlete, great! Cize might be a great fit for you! It has been for me and I'm really thankful for that. It's awesome to feel like you're in the right place at the right time. What a blessing!
If you'd like more information on Cize, please let me know! I'd love to hear from you! We can find a live class near you, or hook you up with the program to do at your own home too! If you're not currently working with a Beachbody coach, I'd love to work with you! {Whether it's with Cize, or another program.} To make me your coach, please go to the following:
https://www.teambeachbody.com/tbbsignup/-/tbbsignup/free?referringRepId=393567
I'd be honored to be a part of your health and wellness journey!
Communication. Yes, it was my major in college. Why? Because I liked to talk. Seriously. At one point, I wanted to be a broadcast journalist, like Katie Couric. However, after doing a mentorship at the local t.v. station {WLFI}, I learned I would have to do my own hair and make-up and edit my own tapes. That was kind of a deal breaker for me. {Sound a bit like a primadona, eh? It's ok, I was.} So, back to communication. It's interesting how we have so many ways of communicating these days ~ phone, texting, email, facebook, instagram and lots of other modes I'm not even aware of but have heard rumblings of.} Yet, at the same time, we don't seem to know how to communicate with one another. There have been a few interesting communication scenarios that have happened in the past week that have really surprised me. The more time and reflection I gave it, the more I realized how flawed our communication really is with each other. Which then leads me to wonder how that impacts relationships?
I'm the type of person who prefers to be told the truth. I suspect most people don't like to be lied to, correct? Or have information withheld from them? Or have someone be dishonest with them? Or not be told something upfront? The whole beating around the bush scene? Yeah, not so much. Yet, it seems like all of those things happened in these scenarios. As I look back on them, if the person had been upfront, open and honest from the get go, a lot of frustration could have been avoided on both sides. It seems like we are very good at burying how we really feel about something, yet, when that happens things "come out sideways." This is exactly what happened. It is perfectly acceptable to say to someone, "you really hurt me when you did xyz, I was hoping you would have been upfront about the situation from the get go." Or "my feelings were hurt when abc happened." It is ok to have an open, honest conversation if/when someone has hurt you. Or, if you think you have hurt someone to go to them and say "I am sorry if I have hurt you. I'm under the impression that perhaps you are upset with me. Will you please forgive me?" That solves things in such a healthier way than pushing it down, letting it come out sideways and being nasty at off times because you've buried the hurt and anger. Eventually, it comes out, so why not deal with it from the get go? What would our world look like then? Think we would have the anger issues? The violence? I don't know, just a thought here. It seems like we aren't educated on how to communicate with one another in a healthy way. How to process our feelings and work through them. Why is that?
The other thing that I'm noticing is people doing things that affect others without saying something to them. A good example would be someone borrowing your car without asking or without your knowledge, yet when you go to get into your car...it's not there! Um, hello! Everything we do affects someone in a positive or negative way. Please think through the ramifications of your actions and words and how they impact others. A lot of times people don't intend to hurt people and I understand that, yet a lot of times that happens.
Part of me wonders if this is due to the fact that we don't really know how we are feeling. We are so busy, so go, go, go, go that we don't take time to stop and think before responding. We simply react before thinking things through. Is part of that is because we are so unsure of our own feelings/thoughts/etc. that we don't know how to handle our own, let alone others? Have we not taken time to work through and process our own issues? Could that be part of it? We respond to situations based on our own wounds and hurts? Just some food for thought here as I've been processing some communication scenes that have impacted me recently.
