After Fernando coaxed me into listening to part of a book he is reading (audio style---check it out it is called Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain), I checked out local gym options. I had a free two year membership at our fantastic YMCA that ended in October. The new price tag for each month, $70+, was a bit too much for me to swallow especially considering the distance and mad race I had to get to and from class in time to pick Tiago up from school. Also, if I was going to pay that much, I wanted a few more amenities like a pool to use all year around to do laps.
Against my hesitations on account of the known tv dominated childcare, I checked out the nearby Gold's Gym. The facility was beautiful and huge. The pool was perfect size and the gym offered Zumba as well as the Body Pump and Flow classes. They let me check out Zumba today and boy was I surprised. A man was substituting for the normal class teacher. Zumba can easily be a coed class. It just usually isn't. The man was an amazing street dancer, but it really was kind of disturbing how he used his hand towel to twist whilst he shook his hips during the Belly Dancing inspired song. Almost as equally diverting was a lady who was loving herself. I totally get checking out your moves in the mirror. Go for it. This girl was ogling the mirror. Her shirt, it seems, was such a bother. It kept getting tied shorter and shorter as the class progressed. It even almost was removed entirely at one point.
So do I spend the $320 so for this new place or just buy myself some Zumba Dvds?
4 comments:
Hey if you want to try out some Zumba DVD's I have them. Let me know. I'm torn too in the next 3 weeks when I can actually start to exercise again. I might join Gold's. How was the childcare? Give me a call and let me know.
Let me start by saying that you are a great descriptive writer! Ha! I totally could imagine the Zumba class.
With that being said...I think you should go with Zumba DVD's for now and keep your eyes open for a class to pop up somewhere else.
What, and we are not even in middle school anymore? Zumba teacher at the last gym is appreciated even more?
personally i love classes so when our ymca freebie ended i had to join. if we lived in the same town we could just get a zumba group together and do the dvds. that's actually whta i think you should do. the dvds - but with a group of friends.
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