Workout Quality
Feb. 22nd, 2006 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebYesterday my friend and I decided that we agree that we don't like our new "body flow" instructor, at least not as much as our last one.
My problems:
1) I can't tell what I'm supposed to do from what he's saying as well, so I have to be looking in his direction pretty much continuously. Then he says we are supposed to be looking some other direction to save our necks.
2) He did an old routine, some of which I remember because I really liked it, and he's doing it wrong. By "wrong," I mean different. And I liked the other way better. So I just did it the other way anyway.
3) He stresses different things, which again seem wrong. They seem more like trying to be macho than like trying to have good form. But I'm not sure. In all, I don't trust him as much. I'm very glad I learned from the other instructor.
My friend's problem:
1) He never asks if anyone has injuries, so then of course he never provides alternatives for people who are still suffering from when someone dropped a suitcase out of the overhead baggage compartment onto her head and shoulder. (Actually the head--and the glasses--are fine, now; it's just the shoulder.)
2) The music is too loud, and his voice is too close to the same volume, so she can't hear him very well at all.
I'm still glad he's teaching, because his teaching combined with my old learning means I get a good workout, which is still mostly fun, even if I'm kind of surly on the inside sometimes.
(I feel weird writing "good workout" after Patrick just ran so far. Compared to that, this class is an easy workout, but better than the workouts I (don't) do at home when I'm not at the gym.)
My problems:
1) I can't tell what I'm supposed to do from what he's saying as well, so I have to be looking in his direction pretty much continuously. Then he says we are supposed to be looking some other direction to save our necks.
2) He did an old routine, some of which I remember because I really liked it, and he's doing it wrong. By "wrong," I mean different. And I liked the other way better. So I just did it the other way anyway.
3) He stresses different things, which again seem wrong. They seem more like trying to be macho than like trying to have good form. But I'm not sure. In all, I don't trust him as much. I'm very glad I learned from the other instructor.
My friend's problem:
1) He never asks if anyone has injuries, so then of course he never provides alternatives for people who are still suffering from when someone dropped a suitcase out of the overhead baggage compartment onto her head and shoulder. (Actually the head--and the glasses--are fine, now; it's just the shoulder.)
2) The music is too loud, and his voice is too close to the same volume, so she can't hear him very well at all.
I'm still glad he's teaching, because his teaching combined with my old learning means I get a good workout, which is still mostly fun, even if I'm kind of surly on the inside sometimes.
(I feel weird writing "good workout" after Patrick just ran so far. Compared to that, this class is an easy workout, but better than the workouts I (don't) do at home when I'm not at the gym.)