Curves Zumba

Curves Zumba is something that is new to Curves this year and today I signed up for the first day of it at my Curves location. It is next Tuesday (Jan 11) and I am pretty eager to try it out.
Zumba is a “latin-inspired dance-fitness program that blends red-hot international music and contagious steps to form a “fitness party” that is downright addictive”. Let’s hope that’s right. Let’s also hope that I am able to learn the moves as I normally have a pretty hard time with dance-routine fitness programs. It is only $2 to try it out next week so not a huge investment to see if it is right for me.

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Curves: Signup Phase

I made an appointment to fill out the paperwork for Curves. Well, I actually did that yesterday and today I went to said appointment. There was a deal where you can get 30 days for $30. I figured once the initial 30 days were over, I would then sign up for the regular membership. However, the lady registering me told me that if I signed up today as a member she would wave the up to $200 (it goes down to $100 at some points during the year) registration fee. Since I was planning on signing up anyway, I took the deal. So I am now a member of Curves.
I filled out more paperwork and then got weighed and measured which wasn’t nearly as uncomfortable as I thought it would be. And as an added bonus, I didn’t weigh as much as I thought I would (since I had jeans and other normal clothes on, I thought it would be much higher than what I see on the scale in the morning). During all of this I watched the other ladies go around the circuit.
There were women there of all ages and fitness level but they all seemed to be really into it. The music was playing and every few minutes the automatic voice would come on and tell everyone to switch machines. There also weren’t a great deal of women there – well at least there weren’t today. Tuesdays and Thursdays are likely the slower days as Curves suggest you go three times a week which leads to the likely schedule of Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.  I am looking forward to my first workout.
I had to make another appointment for tomorrow for my first workout as the trainer was booked up for the evening starting other new members. I must admit I was a little relieved as just signing up was a big step for me – though I was prepared to workout as I had all my clothes and other such gear with me.
I am really happy I signed up and though on paper it seems like a lot of money, I worked it out and it is really on $4.61 after tax each visit (assuming 3 visits a week). That isn’t that bad, but it is enough that I will feel like I am wasting money if I miss too many days during the month.

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WW online

As you know, I enrolled in the WW online program some time ago. Since then I have let the daily logging and monitoring fall by the waist side. BUT as my prepaid months have ended, it is appearing on my MasterCard statement every month. This recurring payment is a really great reminder and has made me start tracking again. I could prepay for several months and save some money, but would likely forget about it again - so instead I am going to stick with the monthly payment and reminder. Time to face reality and see how much damage I have done lately and how far away from my daily point goal I have been recently.

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