7/6 -I (catch up)

I haven't blogged about the last couple of workouts I've done, so I'll just write a little bit about each of them.

Saturday 7/2
Ballroom dancing!
I finally got to dance again, which was great since I haven't since the semester ended. I went to a dance near DC with other people from the W&M ballroom club. It was great. And I decided it counts as a workout because I'd forgotten how tiring (yet still really fun) ballroom can be, especially the faster dances like the cha cha. And especially since you're wearing heels.

Tuesday 7/5
Yoga!
There's a yoga studio in the same building that we're staying in, and they were offering a free class, so my mom and I went to it. It was fun, and surprisingly hard. I thought it would be easy for me since I was the youngest person there, and I've done yoga before, but I realized that since I've only done yoga by myself before, this was different because I didn't get to drop a pose after I got tired, I had to hold it until the instructor said we were done. But it made me want to go to yoga classes at the rec once I get back to school.

Wednesday 7/6
Gym
I planned to watch the end of So You Think You Can Dance while on the elliptical, but by the time I got down to the gym the show was almost over, so after that I started to watch Love in the Wild. I am so hooked. Most reality shows about love are pretty dumb (I mean, this one is too), but this show is fascinating to me because of two things:
The first is the adventure aspect. The premise is that the contestants are put out in the wild, paired up, and sent on adventures. They have to compete against the other couples. I love adventuring, and they do cool stuff like climb over rope bridges hundreds of feet high, or make rafts and pull themselves across rivers with ropes.
The second thing that's so interesting about this show is the social psychology aspect of it (psych major here). The way that the show is set up basically makes it a giant, complicated version of the Prisoner's Dilemma. At the end of every episode two people are eliminated. First everyone has the choice of whether to stay with their partner, or switch. But if they ask to switch and the new person they pick rejects them, then the switcher is in danger of being eliminated. Watching it made me want to learn more about Game Theory so I could map out the contestants' possibilities and choices.