Day 1 Comes to a Close...

As the sun sets on Saratoga Springs tonight.... I can imagine the students are fast asleep!  I am exhausted, so they must be somewhere far beyond that after hours and hours of classes today.  Not only were their bodies fed, but their minds too.

I love finding out interesting bits of information about the students on the first day.  In addition to dance, some of them play soccer, lacrosse, run cross country, hike with their dads, love indoor spinning, and I even learned about a new type of skateboarding, ripstick, that one of the students mentioned.  The board looks kind of like this...

...and I'm already brainstorming as to how I can incorporate these and their awesome core building and balance training into my classes ;) 

The students spent time investigating how to use their foam rollers.  Some brought from home and some of the homemade rollers!  Here they are working on their ITBands: 

And then we dove into our first circuit training workout of the summer.  The warm-up of jumping jacks and high knees jogging was most challenging at minute long increments.  This will be a great way to jump start our stamina for the repertory pieces they will be learning for performance.  

Stay tuned tomorrow for a full description of that Circuit Workout Series!!! 

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AND A BIG SHOUT OUT TO ANGELA, LAUREN'S MOM, ONE OF OUR REGULAR BLOG READERS AND AMAZINGLY SUPPORTIVE PARENTS!!! 

Thanks for all of your support!!!