Update

I'm so so so sorry.  I've had so much going on lately, I've been slacking on the blogging.  ANYWHO!  I'm definitely back in the swing of working out.  Last Thursday was Zumba (fantastic as always!), Saturday was kickboxing, Sunday was Zumba, last night I tried a new class....Core and Conditioning.  It was the first time I'd done the class so I asked what equipment I needed since I saw some of the other ladies with balance balls.  The instructor told me "a ball, elastic cord, light weights, and a mat."  I asked what we would be doing with the weights and she demonstrated a t shaped arm movement and suggested 2 lb weights.  I was pretty confident in my own ability and chose to grab 5 lb weights.  When the instructor saw what weights I grabbed she gave me a pretty crazy look.  I jokingly said to her "If Tina saw me using 2 lb weights for anything, I'd be dead meat" and laughed.  She proceeded to explain that the shoulder muscle is a small muscle group blah blah blah.....yes, yes I know, but I just wished she would please have faith that I knew what my body could handle.  I explained that I go to bootcamp and lift some VERY heavy weights there, in addition I work out VERY hard at other classes and I feel like I can handle 5 lbs weights for the movements she described.  She shrugged and said "oooooook" and I could FEEL that she was maybe thinking "Yeah right!"  I kind of felt like I was being judged because I'm a still a bigger girl.  She doesn't know me, she doesn't know my story, so I let it slide, but was still borderline annoyed.  Guess what....I'm pretty sure I blew her away.  I held perfect form and moved those 5 lb weights!  There were a couple times while I was doing the "challenging" version of a move that she asked me if anything was hurting and I told her "no" she literally opened her eyes wide and said "Wow".  I'm not sure exactly what that meant, but I'm guessing she was surprised at my abilities.  This Core and Conditioning class was not at ALL what I expected and I was VERY disappointed that I didn't even break a sweat, I think it will be a good class to mix things up when my muscles get fatigued from the more challenging classes that I do.