The dance class that surprised us all (and yes, she made us do a split)

This past week the gym offered a "Sampler Class," that was billed as a "modern, hip-hop dance class." Apparently I wasn't the only one excited by the notion that they were finally offering a cardio-dance class, bc the room was filled with ladies. It wasn't until the instructor told us to warm up in first and second position that we started to raise our eyebrows.

Quickly we realized this was not going to be like Zumba. It was like the dance class little girls take in pink tutus or tap shoes. Except here stood a bunch of grown women trying to do sexy hip circles, and what I like to call the "booby shimmy."

The teacher broke down a small combination, then would turn on her music (I have no idea what she was playing. It was definitely NOT hip hop), and we would try it. Then the music stopped and she would show us again. Then we tried it again. Stop - go - stop - go.... you get the idea. You could see we were chomping at the bit to just dance. I even asked if we could just keep repeating it a few times, to get a sweat going. But, I was told that's not how a dance class works.

The teacher was a nice, sweet woman. And to be fair, she was expecting a group of teenagers. So she winged it for us. Parts of it were fun - like trying to do the split. Yup. Imagine a room of 30, 40 and 50-something women all trying to get down into a split. That made me giggle.

I guess its back to Jazzercise for me.