Thursday, November 25, 2010
Hoppe på banan!
Let's talk now about my vanngym classes, that is water gym, or better aerobic in the swimming pool.
So, what do you imagine when you generally think of water gym? fiftie-sh or pregnant women who wake up at 7 in the morning, during their holiday week at the beach resort to warm up their muscles? desperate housewives who send their children to school, make the beds and run to the gym to spend some hours in the morning?
Well in Oslo you have to imagine a dozen of fatti-sh, ugly mature women who happily jump like a bunch of elephants in the water. And if you consider that in Norway the standard of female beauty is pretty high, and the gym belongs to the university thus it' supposed to be attended by students...then I think the problem is the watergym itself!
The main point is the instructor. In all the other classes you have beautiful, super-fit blonde young women who are so happy and hyper that I'm sure they take cocaine before the class. (But in Norway people do lot of sports in the winter also to react to the depressing effect of the dark, so I guess instructors have to look always very encouraging and inspiring). This instructor, Farah (she's Arab, I don't know from where) is fat, definitely bored to do this job, very lazy: she sits all the time outside the swimming pool and shows us what we have to do to...staying seated on a bench. She is not inspiring at all but still, we are so happy!!!!
Every lesson she wants us to dance "papapapa L'americano" in the water and laughs.(!!!) Then, she starts throwing some tools in the water, we have to catch it and do strange exercises. My favourite moment is when she throws this kind of long banana and she says: Hoppe på banan (Jump on the banana) or Sykles på banan, (cycle on the banana)! And all the people laugh, they are so excited, and me too I laugh, and we throw each other water in the faces, and we jump on the banana, and dance, like bunch of elephants!
Then we all run from the fucking cold swimming pool to the baby swimming pool (50 cm.) with hot water. There we relax our muscles and we loose our fats . And after 15 minutes we all run to have a cold shower... and then...all naked in the sauna!Frrrrrrr.
Vanngym class: a dozen of happy elephants who plays with bananas and jump in the water to forget that outside is freezy and dark.
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