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re: Yoga/Exercise classes....why are people drawn to group exercise?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 10:31 pm to Schmelly
Posted on 5/27/14 at 10:31 pm to Schmelly
Also, you pay $50+/mth just to walk in the door at a regular gym. Another 50 to have someone design your workouts, motivate & instruct you isn't a bad deal. Assuming they know wtf they're doing. Rare in the fitness training world. You can hide a terrible trainer in a group setting pretty easy
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 10:43 pm
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Posted on 5/27/14 at 10:34 pm to Iona Fan Man
Humans are social creatures
Posted on 5/27/14 at 10:48 pm to Mike da Tigah
I took a yoga class this past semester in school. Women in tight yoga pants. Favorite class ever. It was so hard trying to hide all of the boners so I wouldnt look like a giant creep 
Posted on 5/27/14 at 10:57 pm to Iona Fan Man
If it weren't for group classes, I wouldn't go to the gym. I have tried working out with a trainer, it didn't work. I have tried doing it by myself, didn't work. We have swimming, spin, body pump, 3 different kinds of dance, all kinds of yoga, and tennis. Somehow trying to make it to a group class is more motivating than anything I have tried.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 6:02 am to foshizzle
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Google "Sarah Jean Underwood naked yoga" for better ones.
Thanks to you and her my opinion of Yoga is evolving.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 6:10 am to Dr RC
quote:this is why my hot wife goes to yoga classes. She is just starting, and wants to make sure she is doing it right.
thats what an instructor is for
Posted on 5/28/14 at 6:30 am to Spirit of Dunson
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quote: thats what an instructor is for this is why my hot wife goes to yoga classes. She is just starting, and wants to make sure she is doing it right.
So you have a hotwife?
Posted on 5/28/14 at 6:36 am to soccerfüt
Very much so.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 6:42 am to Spirit of Dunson
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Very much so.
You do know a "hotwife" gets her news from the BBC?
Posted on 5/28/14 at 7:22 am to Spirit of Dunson
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thats what an instructor is for
this is why my hot wife goes to yoga classes. She is just starting, and wants to make sure she is doing it right.
Yes, she's going so that she can watch the male instructor (who is flexible btw) and let him guide her into the proper positions.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 7:27 am to Iona Fan Man
But seriously, the wife does yoga. She taught me some basic poses for stretching. I now do them 3-4 times a week, and it really helps stretch out my lower back. I'd do a class.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 7:42 am to Iona Fan Man
$100/month for yoga classes? Torrent the P90X yoga video and put it on your iPad or whatever and do it outside together.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 8:09 am to foshizzle
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Yes, she's going so that she can watch the male instructor (who is flexible btw) and let him guide her into the proper positions.
Lot of insecurity here! Her studio has almost all female instructors.
It's good for her. I've tried to get her into exercising more, but she hates running and cycling and swimming. I'm just glad she's found an outlet that is away from the kids.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 8:14 am to Iona Fan Man
Better question...
Why do you feel compelled to oblige a "soon to be ex"? And WTF is "soon to be" about it? Just make it the ex and be done. Are you planning an escape?
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So the soon to be ex wants me to get into yoga.
Why do you feel compelled to oblige a "soon to be ex"? And WTF is "soon to be" about it? Just make it the ex and be done. Are you planning an escape?
Posted on 5/28/14 at 8:34 am to Iona Fan Man
I am wondering the same thing. Just started doing some about a month or two ago and are all kinds of videos on youtube. Started with very basic stuff and working up. Got some good stretches for my back. If something is too complicated without a trainer I just do something else. If I want more cardio, I can go run. If I want more strength, I can do more weight lifting. I guess it is a motivation thing for some people. But I can be done with it in half the time and don't have to do it on somebody else's schedule.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 8:35 am to Iona Fan Man
People like to feel like they are a part of something.
I don't even like to lift with friends. I just keep my headphones in and do my own thing. To each their own I suppose.
I don't even like to lift with friends. I just keep my headphones in and do my own thing. To each their own I suppose.
This post was edited on 5/28/14 at 8:36 am
Posted on 5/28/14 at 8:35 am to Iona Fan Man
I do the classes to socialize. Lots of gym friends!
Posted on 5/28/14 at 8:47 am to Sir Drinksalot
There are numerous reasons why people, especially women, prefer the group.
1. Intimidation. I can't tell you how many women I've talked to that say they don't know what to do and are afraid of looking stupid out on the weight floor. I've tried explaining that they look stupid doing aerobics and wasting their time. If they are unclear on how to use the weight properly, people will show them.
2. Socializing. Women are social creatures, we all are. Women tend to need it more than men though. In that setting, it's easy for them to find a partner or friend that they can discuss the days workout with before and after.
3. Perverts. They are locked up in a room and have to worry less about men checking them out non stop. We all know the gym is a meat market. We get to lifting, get the testosterone pumping, then a chick in yoga pants walks by and we are all ready to lay the pipe. The women aren't as fond of this as we are apparently. There are those women though that love the meat market, every gym has them and they are easy to spot.
That's my take based on what I've seen and had women tell me. There's also a high percentage of ignorance in these groups. People who have no idea what they are doing nor do they want to do the research and learn. This is why they come and go so frequently. Do the same aerobics class for a month, see no gains, then quit. The ones who are serious don't waste their time in the classes. maybe one here and there, but it's a small percentage of their gym time.
1. Intimidation. I can't tell you how many women I've talked to that say they don't know what to do and are afraid of looking stupid out on the weight floor. I've tried explaining that they look stupid doing aerobics and wasting their time. If they are unclear on how to use the weight properly, people will show them.
2. Socializing. Women are social creatures, we all are. Women tend to need it more than men though. In that setting, it's easy for them to find a partner or friend that they can discuss the days workout with before and after.
3. Perverts. They are locked up in a room and have to worry less about men checking them out non stop. We all know the gym is a meat market. We get to lifting, get the testosterone pumping, then a chick in yoga pants walks by and we are all ready to lay the pipe. The women aren't as fond of this as we are apparently. There are those women though that love the meat market, every gym has them and they are easy to spot.
That's my take based on what I've seen and had women tell me. There's also a high percentage of ignorance in these groups. People who have no idea what they are doing nor do they want to do the research and learn. This is why they come and go so frequently. Do the same aerobics class for a month, see no gains, then quit. The ones who are serious don't waste their time in the classes. maybe one here and there, but it's a small percentage of their gym time.
Posted on 5/28/14 at 9:07 am to Austin Cajun
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1. Intimidation. I can't tell you how many women I've talked to that say they don't know what to do
someone else's responsibility to train them, i get it
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2. Socializing. Women are social creatures, we all are. Women tend to need it more than men though.
I wonder if they gravitate to it evolutionary?
people look more attractive when seen in the presence of others than when viewed as individuals, a phenomenon known as the "cheerleader effect"...."the cheerleader effect is caused by our tendency to perceive faces in a group as an amalgamated average, rather than separate individual objects, and the fact this "average group face" is more attractive to us than the faces that make it up. (Group influence also affects our perception of how attractive someone is. Studies have shown that if others think someone is attractive, we are more likely to find them attractive too"
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3. Perverts.
if you were really worried about that, you wouldn't be wearing skin tight clothes. Like if you were worried about your car being broken into, you don't leave a laptop sitting on your front seat
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