As I had a lot of time on my hands nowadays, I do make use of my fitness gym membership quite a bit every week. To maximize the $155 fee per month, I had tried to visit as many of their 19 branches as I can. Having exercised in more than half of them by now, my favourites are the Fusionpolis and Clementi Mall outlets. Both are near my home and are located on the top floor (23rd and 6th) and they come with a rooftop pool each! I feel like I am staying in my own penthouse every time I finish off my gym session with a swim in my “private” pool. I am usually the only person swimming there.
I was wondering about how I can further make use of the membership and wifey asked why don’t I try the classes? Yes, why not? Starting this week, I attended 4 classes over 2 days. 2 of them was for yoga, which I last tried many moons ago and embarrassed myself by falling asleep and snoring during the last 5 minutes of deep “meditation”… There are now so many variations of yoga to try now. I did the Flow and Yin ones this week.
The other 2 classes were new experiences for me. I had always wanted to try them but am usually intimidated and put off as participants are all women and the men who do so look effeminate. Maybe as I am older now, I really don’t give a rat’s ass on what others think nowadays.
I did the BodyCombat class first and enjoyed the martial arts part incorporated into the moves. It was not as tough as I thought but the plus sized lady in front of me was sweating buckets and wetting the wooden floorboards (yucks!).
The other class I tried later in the week was Zumba. Wife and sis in law were always praising the instructors and the new classes with the pop music. I used to like to dance and during uni days and when we started working, I loved the jam and hop sessions and the big entertainment places like Fire. As required, the Zumba instructor used the most overplayed current pop song “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi. The male instructor can really shake his butt, compared to all the women in the class. I was the only guy there besides the trainer, but what the hell! It was a nice and easy class, not too complicated as we all shake our booties vigorously.
New experiences which I can add into my overall fitness regime. My next half marathon will be in 2 weeks time. A few more things ticked off from my bucket list 😉
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