I was driving home from yoga on Tuesday when I heard on the radio that Southern Alberta is under an extreme cold warning; Calgary is NOT included in this warning. I looked at the dashboard and the temperature read minus 26. What does a city have to do to get an extreme cold warning around here?
It’s already started to warm up, thankfully, and the streets are merely a mess of mushy snow and frozen-over ridges, which is much better than the sheer ice/ snow piles that they were. This morning I decided to wrap up warmly and take Barkley to the dog park since it was minus 15, which is my personal cut-off. I regretted the decision upon arrival but powered through, because this fuzzy little face was so happy.
Who’s a good doggy? Barkley is! Barkley’s a good doggy!
The grade seven gym class, having completed the Dance Unit, with their foray into the Cadillac Ranch and Cotton Eyed Joe line dances, are now in the Cardiovascular Health unit. Yesterday they participated in Tai Bo. Tai Bo! With Billy Blanks! The general consensus was that the video used was “creepy.” Creepy or not, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall to see 12 and 13 year old kids doing Tai Bo.
I do not know how the curriculum is created, but it seems to have a very large Nineties push. I wonder if step aerobics will be next. Oh, how I loved step aerobics. I would probably still love step aerobics, given the chance. I remember going through the group workout schedule in university and being able to attend such classes as Step and Pump, Interval Step, and Boxercise. Those were the days, when I would don my sports bra, shorts, and – inexplicably – ball cap for a workout between actual academic classes.
I just now remembered why I wore a ball cap to work out in. It was because of my extremely layered Rachel haircut; it was impossible to keep the hair out of my face otherwise.
Continuing with the video workouts, perhaps Sweatin’ to the Oldies will have a chance to make a comeback. I earnestly, and without irony, like Richard Simmons. Although for these kids, “The Oldies” could be defined as anything between 1995-2005, songs which often seem to me as “just released.” Maybe he has a “twerking” workout. A twerkout, as it were.
Discovery: the entire collection of Sweatin’ to the Oldies is available on Amazon for $282.53, which seems like a lot, but there is only one left in stock, so I guess Amazon knows what it’s doing.
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! Stay warm. xo
A twerkout. A TWERKOUT. I had a step. I did step at home more than at class, although I did do one step class, and there was an older gentleman who came one week and the next week came in early and confided in me that he had been extremely over-confident the week before and ‘damned near had to crawl out’, which was sweet of him to admit. I donated my step to the diabetes society a couple of years ago when I could no longer trust myself to use it without risk of severe injury.
We’ve had a very mild winter. It’s only snowed a couple of times and no more than an inch either time, which is fine with me…except this morning when I went out to get the newspaper, there was a slug on the bag. A live slug. This happens a lot in the spring and summer, but not in February. I’m wondering if we should even bother to garden this year. We are going to be overrun with the things if we don’t have a cold snap and soon.
Have you ever seen the episode of Whose Line is It, Anyway? where Richard Simmons is the guest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zis6Nt21uOU
Makes me laugh every time.
