Rose's Turn

I started doing the Insanity workout yesterday. Oh boy. I woke up this morning and couldn't move for a while. Day one is the fitness test. That's sad. But I made myself feel a little better because I was not too far off on my numbers from the people in the video. I did okay. I'm really out of shape, so a lot of things I could not do over and over again. Today was the first day of actual working out (hah, I could argue that): Plyometric Cardio Circuit. It started off fine, a lot of the stretches in the video were the same from my dance classes, so no biggie. Then we got into all of the core working out. It took many expletives to get through that work out. I hope no one lives above me right now... it'd be interesting to know they hear me grunting as I work out. Oh boy, so I'm going to keep up with that. I have to get in shape. I chose an industry where you have to look good to get good parts.

I think my fascination with body types and changing mine began junior year. I took a class called The Actor's Body. We did a lot of stretches, learned about anatomy, and (most importantly in my opinion) learned how to carry yourself in an audition. My musical theater professor taught the class, so I remember a lot of what he said as I took at least one (if not, two) classes from him a semester until he left. Well, one thing that the entire class was in an uproar about was body types. He stated you can never change your body type. Jack Black will always be the funny fat guy, Nicole Kidman will always be the skinny female lead. Well, okay. Those examples were okay, but my classmates were not to happy he called us out by our body types. We all disagreed strongly with what he said. Sure, you cannot change your bone structure unless you do some psycho surgery, but I feel like you can lose or gain weight to become another body type. I will not allow myself to remain in the Jack Black category. I've been the old man or funny large guy in almost every show. I'm bored with this part. I know if I lost weight I could do any part I wanted. That's showbiz, and I'm doing it for myself because I'm way too ambitious for my own good. Plus, I really need to get into shape. I have body image as it is, so I need to work on that.

Okay, enough whining for today about my body. I'm waiting for a phone call for my 3rd interview with KDR Nationals. Cross your fingers it happens. I've been waiting a week and four days now...