Ironman gets taken down...hard.

That's funny.

A few years ago, while in the Army, I went to a step aerobics class feeling pretty cocky, too. I could run very well and always scored in the top 10% of unit physical training tests.

The instructor told us to get one step for basic, 2 for mid, and 3 for advanced. Guess how many i grabbed...3! I almost didn't finish the 45 minute workout...and I puked afterwards!

N00B!

LOL!  My wife use to ask me to join her in some of the classes at the Y.  I have seen their torture in action, they always make it a point to bring the guys down to their knees begging for mercy!  I'd rather do an LT test...

I'm a believer in all-around fitness.  I hope you (and wife and kids) go back until you can do this kind of workout too.  (I might pick out the low step next time.)  It's all good.

TW

Hehe, that's cute - thanks for sharing.

Amazing how we can be proficient in one sport ... try another ... wake up and not be able to walk

I completely hear ya.... my wife is a boot camp instructor/pilates/trainer... her camps scare the crap out of me. Whenever she makes me take them, I'm usually pretty humbled - and sore for a couple of days. She tells me it's good for me though, whatever that means..

Funny, my wife did that to me last summer - signed us up for a twice a week Tae-Bo class.

Dude teaching it seriously kicked my arse, but we both had fun with it.  I'd go back next summer if she's game. 

Funny I spent the night at the Y taking a Zumba class with my daughter for much the same reason you stated. They need to be active and no soccer this winter. I'm not a dancer type person and sort of inhibited that way. Now we go and wiggle around, doing all this crazy stuff...I feel a bit like a klutz but they love it. I pick out the athlete folks vs the girls that took dance lessons as the type move differently. Good news my husband and youngest daughter want to go.

I started going to Pilate classes and found it challenging but not in my core more in my legs  which puzzled the instructor...especially the outside part of my thigh below my hip. I was quite surprised not to wake up the next day wicked sore..I wasn't sore at all. Thing I realized up and down movements I can do as we do that all the type s/b/r the movements that have circles or outside the plane of movement we do is much harder for me. 

These classes are humbling...but fun way to do stuff with my kids.

Oh yeah!  My son asked on the ride home, "So when is our next class!?"

This is all Sooo funny, and yet Sooo true!

Like the guy above me posted, I think for most women they jsut adapt better at lighter weights/more reps.

Several months back, during my recent comeback to weightlifting ... and a time in which I was reaching all time new highs as far as how much I could lift, I stayed after a regular aerobics class one day to do the 30 minutes of "body scuplt" class that came afterwards.

Okay, so here is this 250 lb. dude who just the other day was bench pressing 10 reps at 205, 8 reps 225, 6 reps 245, 4 reps 265, 2 reps 285, and a 1 rep max at 300 lbs ... but when working out with 7.5 lb dumbells in this class, my arms turned to rubber and I wasn't able to finish.

I had to go change out for the 5 lb. weights and then eventually just use my arms only ... no weights at all in my hands!!!

Also, during the aerobics class, I have no problem at all keeping up as long as we are doing straight forward and back movements, hopping, bouncing, etc ... but as soon as they throw in the lateral and side to side stuff ... or moves that require suddent stops and starts, etc .... I get totally put to shame ....

Anyhow ... it may be just more sport specific and cause I'm not trained in those particular movements and for endless reps of weights .... but I still think that the way women's muscles respond to light yet repeated reps is different than for guys.... for one thing .. I have about an extra 10-15 lbs to move just in arm mass alone ... that should count for something ... don't ya think?

I bought Wii Fit about 6 days after I did my third Ironman and it called me a couch potato when I tried to do pushups on it. ANd I got the lowest ranking on the running in place evercise!!!
The first week I used it I was very sore, but I did get good at it pretty fast and now it can't really make me sore anymore.
I am still a couch potato when I try to do the darn pushups (and it's only 6 reps!!) but I have the highest rank in running now.

LOL.  Boot camp style baby!  Welcome to how I feel doing triathlons.  I can rock it out in those types of classes and I try to run a few miles and I'm slooooow.  

Good for you!  Especially initiating getting the whole family involved.  

Tonight I decided to do Yoga for the first time ever. My friend came over and brought his p90x ( which he is doing... i'm not ) and we did the "Yoga X" for 1:30. The first half is .. vinyasa yoga?... lots of warrior poses and leg stuff... then the last half is balance moves and some ab/core stuff. It was quite a workout and i have new respect for people who can contort their bodies in some of those ways. i think i am going to incorporate it sometime once a week into my routine. That along with the ab ripper x 15 minute session from the program would be great total core stuff.

-andrew