Working my way through the YMCA group class schedule makes me feel like a certain girl who has a fondness for bears (and breaking and entering).
Stacie’s Zumba class was too fast.
Bobbi’s Zumba class was too slow (and filled with snotty women).
Ellen’s MVE Pilates class may be just right.
I’ll still go to the Zumba classes — snotty be damned — but I may go more often to MVE Pilates. MVE stands for “maximum versatility exercise” and there is a torture device involved: a special chair for all kinds of acrobatic work.
I did this maneuver, but with much less grace.
Oh HELL no.
After 15 minutes of Cirque du Soleil, I was questioning my sanity. After 30 minutes of trying various “poses,” including the especially heinous one that is pictured second from the right in the collage below, I had sweat dripping off my nose. My nose! And my nose was running too!
But the instructor and other victims were very nice and helpful, and I feel like I got a great workout. And I didn’t die. So I’ll be back.
Observe and report 
God bless your tenacity, and hang in there!
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Thank you!
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Ugh. Looks like they are messing up perfectly maniacal yoga poses with an added included torture device…..
I have a really hard time with “gentle” yoga…..you can have this one dear.
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It was quite the hour of work, but I know it will be beneficial.
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