Shimmy shimmy clap clap
I used to go to spin on a Wednesday and body pump on a Friday but then I started uni in September and my timetable inconsiderately had me going in on Wednesdays and Fridays at the time the classes were on but hurrah! next term’s timetable (starting next week) has me free on Wednesdays and Fridays and so this week, I thought I’d get myself booked onto the classes to get me back into it.
Because today isn’t a Wednesday, I looked to see who was doing today’s class and it was either the instructor I like (who’s happy and smiley) or the one I don’t (who’s fierce and shouty) and I always get their names mixed up and can never remember which is which but I thought I’d take a risk and I probably need shouting at to get exercising anyway and I get there and get warmed up on the rowing machine for twenty minutes and then I go to the bike bit and the instructor turns up and it’s not the happy and smiley instructor or the fierce and shouty instructor but one that covered for a class before who is very nice but I swore then that I would never go to one of her classes again as she made everyone wave their arms in the air and all kinds of embarrassing things like that. Eek.
It started off ok but then she was doing some kind of side to side thing that I could just about follow then she was doing some kind of dipping thing that I couldn’t follow and then she sat back and said you can carry on as you are or you can sit back and shimmy, and she sat back and shimmied and I stayed as I was, as did the rest of the class, then she was doing a clappy thing above her head and I didn’t want to do any side to side thing or dipping thing or shimmying thing or clapping thing, I just wanted to do pedalling and standing up or sitting down like normal instructors make you do and eventually it was all over and I went to the treadmill to do a mile but only managed 1km and that was hard enough and then I went back to the rowing machine and did another ten minutes on that then I got changed and made myself look presentable just to walk to the library in the wind and rain and got there looking like a chip wrapper that had been dragged out of a drain (thank god/Ashford Borough Council for self-service machines which prevents the need to face any staff looking bedraggled).
Body pump tomorrow. They’ll have changed the tracks since I last went, so I’ll be the noob who does everything out of sync with everyone else.
Stats:
Cycling: 6.26 miles
Rowing: 30 minutes
Spin: 45 minutes
Treadmill: 8 minutes
Shimmying done by me: none
Clapping done by me: none
Don’t know why, but anytime I hear someone use the word “shimmy”, which is rare to say the least, I think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83lGO8UGcU8
Would love to see video footage of this, well done on not legging it out when they was’nt looking
Grim! That sort of thing makes my skin crawl off into a corner to hide!
Cripes that all sounds very hardcore. You do realise this is Janathon Day 5 you’ve got to keep this level of energy going for ages yet.
I’m with you on not liking the arm waving, shimmy, shimmy, clap, clap thing! I think I’d have legged it not long into the proceedings, so good on you for sticking it out! 🙂
Gosh, that does sound like an interesting spin class! My old gym did Disco Spin where they turned out the studio lights and turned on 80’s style disco lights! Was great for covering up the sweaty mess that I was!
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