Aquarobics
I really enjoy the Aquarobics classes that I attend three times a week. I've only been doing it about three years and it's still a wonderful thing to me. I was not raised around water and I don't swim. I was very afraid of the water.
When I first went to Aquarobics, it was so strange to me. I spent my first weeks and months doing the exercises at the very edge of the shallow end of the pool. I laughed a lot. Everything tickled me so much. When the instructor called out, "Froggy," I had no idea what that mean. When I learned that we jump up and grab our ankles, it sounded so impossible to me. I laughed and laughed. But little by little my hands got closer to my ankles and today, I can grab my ankles. It still makes me laugh some times.
Another one that makes me laugh is when we "pull the rope in and kick your butt." It also sounded impossible, but now I have no problem with it.
Today when I was doing the deep water exercise, with the styrofoam noodles under my arms, (yes! I am freed up mentally so that I can launch out into the deep water and I LOVE it!) I looked down at the dark blue stripes at the bottom of the pool. Immediately underneath me the lines are straight, but as I looked toward the other end of the pool, the lines snaked out in front of me, like a squiggle of toothpaste pushed out from its tube.
I love being out in the deep water now but I still feel the wonder of being able to be there. I love the feel of the water all around me, the weightless feeling, the way the water moves around my arms and legs as I do the exercises. Even when I don't laugh out loud about it, I smile a lot. Aquarobics was great fun for me today!
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