Exercise Zoom

We have been very lucky to have an exercise teacher who became quite antsy after all indoor classes were cancelled last spring and, to subdue her antsy-ness, started offering her exercise class 5 days per week via zoom. Being a decades-long runner who has done very little else for fitness, every non-leg part of my body has been extremely grateful for this exercise class. And it turns out Mister Taz is also quite interested in the class!

 

Some days he is a bit slow to get enthused, but keeps a sharp eye out to make sure I'm setting everything up properly.

On many an occasion, he wants to show me just how to perform the exercise. For example:

 

A side plank demo:

 

 

Or carefully studying my form to make sure I'm really squeezing when we're working with a "squeezy thing":

Or dropping to a proper sit when he hears J announce a four-minute wall sit:

 

Then again, sometimes he wants to help with that wall sit:

And there are those Very Exciting exercises - like when I'm doing jumping jacks and he is begging to join in.

 

 

On extra special days he decides I must have a bath now when I jump into the exercise class straight from a run.

 

Then there are days like today. He was fresh off an hour-long leash-free romp with Paul's much younger pup, Barley, and I was fresh off a 10-mile hill and trail run. He picked his form of exercise and I had to work hard to convince myself to stick with the class rather than join him in his style of High Intensity Interval Training.  He's such a smart dog.