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7 THOUGHTS DURING THE FIRST TIME BODY PUMP: ‘HELP!’
This week I had to face it. Simone was going to a group Bodypump class and asked if I wanted to join after work. “Uh, yeah you know, I’ll bring my sports clothes anyway and then I’ll see how I feel, okay?” was my answer. And then I suddenly realized: I’m going on vacation in eight weeks. I really have nothing to lose. Plus: I have a pretty hip sports outfit from H&M for the first time in my life and otherwise it would just stay in my closet. So off I went. Facing my potential end.
Are there any more sports nonos in the house who have never done body pump? For you (okay, and also for the fit girls, come on, laugh) I’ll share my thoughts during the first class.
1. I’m definitely going to stand at the back of the room
Concealed. For sure. Then I can sneak a bit here and there and no one will notice that I’m as stiff as a board and have never done this.
2. Omg, okay, help. Only bodybuilders around me
Am I in a virtual reality game? Are these people photoshopped? WHAT are we going to do? HOW MANY kilos are these people around me going to lift? Has that instructor completely GONE crazy?
3. Why do I look like a floppy rollmops in this sportswear compared to the rest?
The little devil on my shoulder: “Because the rest of this group has already been sweating in this room before, little lazy thing, and you swung your hockey stick at fourteen and then started smoking.” Just saying.
4. Yes, that’s embarrassing. Two of those mini weights on both sides of your stick (what’s that thing called anyway?!), while the rest pumps three times that with ease.
But according to Simone, you just have to get over that completely. If you’ve never done a Bodypump class and go all the way, you won’t be able to walk for the next four days and you’ll never come back either.
5. So I need a water bottle
Everyone has a water bottle. A water bottle is so 2015 and not good for the environment. And by the way, not really cool either. A water bottle in a trendy color, pink or something, look, then you look super professional.
6. I’m yawning the whole time. Wassup with that?
And now I’ve learned that we yawn to keep our brains at the right temperature, read here but. Exercising, it remains strange.
7. I honestly didn’t know I had muscles there
Okay, that hurts. My thigh is on fire. And my butt. But I think it’s working. It already feels tighter. Ha, I can do this, man. On to that bikini!
