[puneri]

Originally Posted by Sally Pineapple

Here is my update. I tried Zumba and at this time I am going to pass on it. I just could not get into it and I was holding up my daughter as she tried to work with me so she was not getting a good workout.
I will work on my exercise at home.

Good decision. Ppl do not understand that we are 60 year old. Your weight can
Cause problems to your knees. After losing around 100lb, you may feel confident. And weight loss mostly depends on your eating habits and not on the form of exercise.

[Exhale15]

Was it too terrible to give it another try?

[CurryMama]

I think I agree with Exhale...

the fault was not yours, it was your daughter's - you're not supposed to be working out with someone else.

in the class i was going to before i blew my sacro-iliac joint in a slip and fall, there was a lady in a chair with knee replacements. she did only the upper body work.

there was another lady with a cane - she has damage to one leg from polio.

lots of ppl doing mostly jumping jacks or marching in place.

and one absolutely lovely lady in her 60s spent most of the classes with her finger on top of her head doing the samba around in a circle because she absolutely could not figure out what she was supposed to be doing.

where i was, in the back of the class, we spent most of our time caroming off each other for the same reason.

there were men and women.

there were teenagers and elderly - the oldest was in his 80s. he said he was there "for the view" and would wiggle his eyebrows at the hardcore lineup at the front of the room, all dressed in fancy zumba spandex. (he wore white sweatbands on his head and wrists, white adidas shorts, a white tank top, and red converse high-tops. totally 80s).

there were ppl who were so skinny i was afraid to breath on them in case it knocked them over.

there were ppl like me, large enough to create our own gravitational field.

the thing we all had in common was that we were there to exercise, socialize, and just have fun.

[krampus]

Are there Zumba Gold classes in your area? Those target a lower-impact, higher age group.

[Exhale15]

You know, why don't you try it again but don't be alongside your daughter. It makes sense for her to want to interact with you during class, but try going to class together but stay in different parts of the classroom. I think that since Zumba seems to be something that everyone can do it's a shame to throw in the towel. You can always exercise at home, so why not view Zumba as something fun to do and share with your daughter. There is no such thing as perfection, and doing something new opens you up for another something new, and so on and so on...