8/19/13
Woke up at the ungodly hour of 7AM today to prepare myself for water aerobics, I had planned on trying out this class which is offered three times per week.
I am in the pool by 8:20 looking forward to comiserating with the others. I quickly find out that I was the new one and they had all been coming to the class for weeks. Looking around me, I was not encouraged by their physical progress, but then was comforted by the fact that I am the youngest one. Ha! finally!
Feeling apprehensive about doing aerobics for an entire hour, I was beginning to have triple and quadruple thoughts; after all I've never lasted more then 3 minutes before. I console myself that I'm in cold water and that I would not feel heat, nor sweat. Besides I'm here now and I'm already wet.
The instructor arrives and promptly begins to shout out moves. He demonstrates out of the water what I'm suppose to do in the water.
Wait! does he not realize that he's being grounded by gravity whereas I am gifted with few buoyancy aids? I have anterior and posterior floating devices and they ain't contributiong to keeping me on my feet.
He said "side kicks" and I go floating off to the side, he said "arm pull and push" and I'm thrusted forward into my neighbor. FUN if only she was a hot, handsome hunk...
After few pleasantries and "excuse me" I proceed to adopting a serious disposition.
I give it my all; I push, pull, kick and twist, I sweat and get out of breath, but I'm still cool. I love it.
I thoroughly enjoy the workout and before I know it time has passed and I've been at it for a solid 45 minutes. I do believe I have found my niche in the exercise world.
Cynthia
Woke up at the ungodly hour of 7AM today to prepare myself for water aerobics, I had planned on trying out this class which is offered three times per week.
I am in the pool by 8:20 looking forward to comiserating with the others. I quickly find out that I was the new one and they had all been coming to the class for weeks. Looking around me, I was not encouraged by their physical progress, but then was comforted by the fact that I am the youngest one. Ha! finally!
Feeling apprehensive about doing aerobics for an entire hour, I was beginning to have triple and quadruple thoughts; after all I've never lasted more then 3 minutes before. I console myself that I'm in cold water and that I would not feel heat, nor sweat. Besides I'm here now and I'm already wet.
The instructor arrives and promptly begins to shout out moves. He demonstrates out of the water what I'm suppose to do in the water.
Wait! does he not realize that he's being grounded by gravity whereas I am gifted with few buoyancy aids? I have anterior and posterior floating devices and they ain't contributiong to keeping me on my feet.
He said "side kicks" and I go floating off to the side, he said "arm pull and push" and I'm thrusted forward into my neighbor. FUN if only she was a hot, handsome hunk...
After few pleasantries and "excuse me" I proceed to adopting a serious disposition.
I give it my all; I push, pull, kick and twist, I sweat and get out of breath, but I'm still cool. I love it.
I thoroughly enjoy the workout and before I know it time has passed and I've been at it for a solid 45 minutes. I do believe I have found my niche in the exercise world.
Cynthia
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