Exercising Is Better With Friends

Today was the Friends of Dana Pure Barre class and after my blog yesterday complaining about hating to exercise it is amazing anyone showed up.  But show up they did and we had a full class of mostly virgins.

Our teacher was good at explaining the moves but was not so easy on us so this was not a Pure Barre Light class.  The sweating and groaning started early and that was mostly from me.  I have to say that exercising with friends who are more or less my age is the most fun.  There was no intimidation about not being able to do all the moves correctly or for the full amount of time.

I am happy if I can do 80% of the tucks, lifts and squeezes and you can forget the hovering an out-stretched leg while lifting another.  Someday I hope to be able to pull both my pointed-toe feet into together but for now I will settle for alternating feet.

If you missed this intro class Lynn and Charlotte will do another.  If you came today and want to try again let me know and we can go together.  There is strength in middle-aged numbers.  I guess I really like exercising with my friends who realize it’s not a competition and are happy to laugh along with me.

If our husbands find out what we do with that little red ball we might be in trouble, but for now your secret is safe with me.  Rest and watch the Oscars tonight, we deserve a guilty pleasure and there are no calories in TV watching.

After class we could still hold our arms up, we just couldn’t stand up.