I go to gym clases as regularly as I can. This does take up a lot of time for just 2 or 3 hours a week. It’s never a case of simply turning up and sneaking into the studio. There’s the going into the actual gym itself, with all those machines . . . I always need to loosen up my lower joints before I can join in with the class doing balance and mobility routines. This all started a few years ago when I found my much loved Pilates teacher was having to retire from the circuit. I had happily joined her small class every week, in term time, for over twenty years and I was convinced this was the only activity that kept me at all mobile and able to walk and run about. Well there was a gap between ceasing my Pilates and the start up of the gym sessions I enjoy now. This gap was filled with just general walking and climbing stairs always instead of taking lifts etc. We should all be moving much more than we do. Motion is the lotion is one phrse my gym instructor likes to toss out at us when she feels we are a little lethargic! I cannot imagine trying to do any useful exercise routine now without a formal gym instructor – they know how to get the best out of one’s body, which we just don’t manage on our own at home.
All Those Years of Bending & Stretching Were Crucial
