Jazzercise #47 — Darlene- Latino Music and the Flowy Skort! 💃💜

Jazzercise #47 is DONE! 💪💃

And today was FUN.

After my Walk 5 of 5 to Starbucks this morning — complete with 11 woodpeckers, a suspicious 1,449 feet of Fitbit elevation, and excellent coffee — I headed home, changed, showered, and made it to Jazzercise just in time.

I was outside the studio by 9:10 AM, so YAY ME. 😂

And then Darlene decided we were going to have a little Latin dance party.

💃 THE LATINO MUSIC MONTAGE

Today’s class had a whole Latino-music vibe going on, with lots of:
💃 Mambo
💃 Cha-cha
💃 Tango
💃 Sashaying
💃 Twisting
💃 Turning
💃 Generally having a ridiculously good time

And I had the perfect outfit for it.

I was wearing one of those little flowy skorts — exercise shorts underneath with a little skirt over the top.

And OH MY GOD.

Every time we did the cha-cha and I did the little:
sashay, sashay, sashay… TURN!
TWIST! TWIST!
GO THE OTHER WAY!

the skirt would SWISH around.

😂😂😂

It was like being a four-year-old little girl in a dress spinning around in circles.

Except instead of randomly spinning around the living room, I was doing a cha-cha in a Jazzercise class.

And the skirt looked SO COOL moving with the steps!

I may have been slightly more entertained by my own outfit than was strictly necessary.

And I regret NOTHING. 😂

🎶 Darlene BROUGHT IT
The whole class had such a fun energy today.

There is something about music that makes certain workouts feel completely different.

Instead of thinking, Ugh, I’m exercising, my brain was more like:

LOOK AT THE SKIRT GO!

😂💃

And honestly?

I’ll take it.

⏱️ I DID NOT STAY FOR FLOOR WORK
Now, before anyone gets too impressed with my dedication:

I did NOT stay for the entire hour.

We got to about the 50-minute mark and then the class transitioned into floor work.

Crunches.
Floor exercises.
The part where everyone gets down on the floor and does things that I was simply not interested in doing today.

So I politely gathered my stuff and snuck my ass out of there. 😂

Everyone else was doing crunches.

I was like:
“Welp! This has been lovely. BYYYYYE!” 👋😂

And you know what?
That’s okay.

I got almost 50 minutes of cardio.
I moved my body.
I had fun.
And I left before doing something I didn’t feel like doing.
That’s still a workout.

📊 THE FITBIT RECEIPT

And Fitbit apparently agreed that I did, in fact, exercise.

Today’s Jazzercise session:
💃 49 minutes, 5 seconds
🔥 411 calories
❤️ 134 bpm average heart rate
⚡ 60 cardio load
⏱️ 86 active-zone minutes
🟡 41 minutes in the vigorous zone
🟢 6 minutes in the moderate zone
🔵 2 minutes in the light zone

Fitbit says 84% of the workout was spent in the vigorous zone.

Jazzercise Receipts

So apparently the flowy skort wasn’t just putting on a show.

It was WORKING. 😂

And between my morning Starbucks walk and Jazzercise, I passed 10,000 steps before 10:10 AM.

That’s a pretty damn productive Saturday morning.

🥕 FIVE WALKS + FOUR JAZZERCISES

This was also the perfect way to finish off Walk 5 of 5.

Five Starbucks walks this week.

Then Jazzercise #47.

And somewhere in there I managed to photograph approximately 4 pictures of my outfit, eleven woodpeckers, cactus flowers, Bunny Tree, and apparently one mysterious mountain according to Fitbit.

😂😂😂

That’s what I love about this whole routine.

It doesn’t have to be perfect.

It doesn’t have to look like a traditional workout plan.

Sometimes it’s a 2.55-mile walk to Starbucks.

Sometimes it’s stopping to watch a ridiculous number of woodpeckers.

Sometimes it’s a fitness tracker insisting you climbed 1,449 feet when you absolutely did not.

And sometimes it’s a flowy skort and a cha-cha.

💃😂

💚 THE POINT
I’m not trying to create some perfectly optimized fitness life.

I’m trying to create a life where moving my body is just something I do.

• Sometimes I walk.
• Sometimes I Jazzercise.
• Sometimes I dance around in a ridiculous little skirt and have way too much fun watching it swish.
•And sometimes I leave before the crunches.

Because wellness without perfection is still wellness.

Movement in real life still counts.

ALWAYS. 🥕💚💃

Jazzercise #47 — DONE. 💃

And Darlene? Love you!

Please keep the Latin music coming.

I’m bringing the swishy skirt. 😂💜