Social Workout

I <3 Crunch

Going to Lucille Roberts today made me appreciate it even more. 

A friend is a member there and always talks about this amazing zumba class she takes there. She's been asking me to come for weeks. I usually take parkour Wednesday nights (at the Crunch that is right down the block from her gym) and it's the same time as the zumba class. But tonight my other plans fell through and I wasn't in the mood of parkour, so when she asked me if I wanted to go I agreed. 

First the place. They have very few machines. You need to sign up for a treadmill. The machines are old. The entire place is bright yellow, the walls, the lockers, and the machines. They don't give towels. It definitely didn't have the same energy as Crunch. As I was looking around I noticed that all the machines I used this morning in my workout, were missing from Lucille Roberts. It's as if they think, it's an all women's gym and women can't do pullups so we don't need a pullup machine. No one was even using the other machines. I didn't see any trainers.

The class. They don't have a separate room for classes. They have a big empty space in the middle of the room. It's carpeted (the entire gym is carpeted). How do you do a dance class on carpet? The instructor has a little stage, his mic doesn't work. The people laugh when he tells them they have to do a real squat. And when he turns around everyone stops what they were doing. It was my first real Zumba experience (I'm not including the one at Brooklyn Bridge park). I'm still not sure what all the hype is about. It's just shaking your butt. And is there some sort of Zumba playlist? Every song the instructor played had the word Zumba in it. There was even a girl wearing a tshirt that said Zumba all over it. 

It was an interesting experience. As I was leaving, the woman at the front desk asked if I wanted to sign up. I said no thanx. My friend said I should've said yes because then she'd give me a week pass. I don't want a week pass. I guess you get what you pay for, and I absolutely don't mind paying a lot more than the people at Lucille Roberts.