Goddess Grunt

I recently had the realization that I go to an old lady gym. That's right. I'm 27, and I work out like an old lady, with old ladies. This was pointed out to me by an anonymous review on the internet, and ever since I read it I've started noticing things. First, the gym does not play music. I noticed this when I first joined but thought maybe it was just a bare bones gym. This is the first independent gym I've gone to and I didn't know how it worked! Second, if you go in the middle of the day or the morning there are only old ladies (this was a pretty big sign). Third, there is a woman in one of my classes that wears a unitard, kind of like the one below, but on a much larger lady. More power to her, but I'm pretty sure this one is the same one she had in the 70s when she was Jazzercising.

I usually go to the classes in the evening because a) I don't like entertaining myself between 4-7 (that's another story) and b) I like to watch Ellen in the morning (yup, still unemployed). After 4 or 5pm the crowd is a little younger; the teachers from the area or students. Then I don't feel so young. Yesterday, however, I decided to go to yoga in the morning and found myself a good 30 years younger than the next youngest person in the room, perhaps including the teacher. The class started and got moving pretty slowly but I had hopes that it would pick up. Oh...it did. At the climax of the class we did the goddess pose (below) and all of the sudden all the women started sighing. "ahhhhh" "ahhhhh" each time we went in and out of the pose. Then the teacher said to pick up the pace and all the women started loudly grunting! "grah" "grah" It took everything I had not to laugh!



I still like this gym but I wonder if I would be getting a better workout with music playing and harder classes not catering to the older crowd. At least it's entertaining!