Workout Woes

There are certain aspects of my life that very well might not make any sense to anyone who is not...well, me. My present workout situation is one of them. Though the family I live with has a complete workout facility literally 50 feet from my room- I can count the number of times I have used their eliptical, treadmill, or the tv to pop in Jillian's 30 Day Shred on one hand. Thus, this semester I have decided to fork out the $20 a month to join a gym 12 minutes away! It's been great actually and the number of times I have worked out in the past 2 weeks is at least double than all of last semester combined. So I am feeling good...

Or not so good. With the help and accountability of a couple of friends, I have made it to the gym before 6 am the past two days for some workout classes. And while I have done Yoga consistently for the past few years, I am not totally sure classes are my thing. Today, in the midst of a class that I believe was entitled "Drills That Make You Sweat", I began writing this blog post in my head:

The Top Ten Things that Make You Wonder Whether You Should Be in this Workout Class at All:

10. You do not walk, but rather waddle into class due to extreme soreness from the day before.

9. You are exhausted after the warm-up and anxiously glance up at the clock to see if class is almost over... alas, you have 55 more minutes to go.

8. Your friends who are with you for support can be found chuckling at your lack of coordination and your lack of ability to gracefully jump over the step.

7. During one particular drill, you look in the mirror and think you almost see a football player out at two-a-days! (This may be attributed to the drill itself, or the way I looked in the mirror...I will assume the former).

6. The instructor has to come correct you with each and every new drill- and each time, though it is obvious that you are 28 years old, smiles and condescendingly (oh I mean, compassionately) calls you "sweetie".

5. You notice that the lady next to you is not 28, but closer to 68... and that she has twice as much weight as you on her bar...and that while you feel like you are about to fall over, she appears completely unaffected by all the lunging and "bun-burning."

4. Somewhere along the way you start wondering what you will eat for breakfast and if you have time to stop at Starbucks on the way to school.

3. You are the having the awake kind of nightbares of Billy-Blanks (you know, the Tae-Bo instructor) yelling at you that he can see you and that you better keep doing those butt drills because it is almost swimsuit season.

2. You get excited because you are pretty sure you hear your instructor announce "nap-time", then are crushed to realize that the actual phrase she energetically shouted across the room was indeed "ab-time!"

1. Cher comes on the workout-mix and you are thinking that it would probably be infinitely better to be sitting at her concert than on your ab-mat right now!

Only redeemable part of the workout (besides the friends there and the fact that I have already lost 40 lbs and toned all my muscles in just two days...)... the 90's workout mix complete with my very favorite N'SYNC song... DIRTY POP!

Alright, I am off to class....sadly no time for Starbucks. To all my readers out there....may your day be much less humbling than mine!