Let's Try A New Exercise Class
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Okay, I've been getting a little bored at the gym lately. Don't get me wrong as I love working out but now that it's summer I like to do some outdoor activites and our weather here hasn't been the most cooperative 
. So I go to the gym for my regular routine yesterday and as I walk by the aerobic room, I see all these exercise balls in a stand and I'm curious. I see one of the trainers and I ask what's up? She explained to me it's a new class that they just started to work on "your body's core". Okay, I'll try anything once and I find out it will be today early in the morning. I figure what the heck, I have one of these balls at home that a friend of mine gave me about 6 months ago. It's been sitting on top of a plant stand in my bathtub like a sculpture and occaisonally I'll remember to dust it 
. I thought about it and decided to take the class, maybe I'll finally know what to do with this big plastic ball for once!
So I get to class and she tells us to choose a ball. If you're taller you'll want a larger one so you're not sitting too low when doing some of the exercises. Ok, whatever you say. So we start, some of the things were not so easy to do, balls were rolling all over the place. People were having a tough time trying to balance on it at first too. I did pretty good with the balancing part in that I didn't fall off, not so easy to do. Then she asked us to lay on mats on our backs and place the ball behind our knees catching it with our heels and do leg lifts, again balls were rolling all over the place and people were laughing. Then we had to do this one move where my pants started to stick to the ball and I almost lost them as we had to roll on the ball and they didn't want to come with me 
I found out later that some of my problems with my ball were due to it being overinflated which explains why I couldn't balance as well as I wanted to 
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All in all it was ok, I will need to try it again before I decide if I like it or not and I will make sure to wear better pants! I have a feeling my ball will continue collecting dust as a sculpture though !
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