About a month ago, I started going to Zumba once or twice a week. I have to use dance to trick myself into exercising, otherwise I'm just not motivated to exercise. For what it is, I find Zumba to be rather fun. The first class I attended featured an interesting Spanish version of "Walk Like An Egyptian". Save for the occasional Pharaonic arms, it was thankfully free of any bellydance (or bellydance-inspired) moves.

I do wonder how those who do not have the benefit of other dance training get though it without injuring themselves, though. I see so much "duck butt" in that class, it makes my lower back hurt just to observe it.

This week, the teacher was telling us that a shoulder shimmy and a hip shimmy are connected--if you do one, the other one naturally happens. Hmm.

I do notice that my knees have been a bit crabby lately, though.