Zumba

So have you done this? This Zumba thing? It's pretty stinking fantastic and really humiliating, all at the same time.

My sister-in-law joined the YMCA here in the San Antonio...so we went to Zumba today. Really, have you tried it? The instructor stands in front of the room and starts flailing herself about, but this flailing about looks super good when she does it. I mean, she's sort of a rock star the way she can gyrate around. The music is loud and bumping, and she's not really calling out any of the moves. So you better watch, right? Because she is not going to slow down, that's for sure.

It was fantastic because it was such a fun work-out, and I came out sweating. I really love it when an instructor gets you working hard. And when it's fun, well, the time just flies by. You know you are working really hard when towards the end, you can't even try to do the steps correctly and the goal is to just keep moving. That is what happened. I was just trying to keep moving...and not really worrying whether or not I was doing the steps right.

It was humiliating because well, I didn't look anything like that instructor. Not a thing at all. She looked graceful and coordinated and pretty much awesome. And I looked pretty oafish. I guess, though, that most people in the room were like me - just trying to keep up. I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to anything but the instructor and trying to get the moves down. I'm pretty sure most people were doing the same thing. Anyway...in spite of the humiliation that was my moves, I think I might want to do it again!