Beijing Anti-Aging Exercise Class

Toyke is really having a hard time keeping it together during this "exercise" class...see' he's laughing while he does the pat your knee exercises...

One of the instructors is in the center of the room. I believe her name in Chen. This is the swirl your knees exercise.

He really lost it during this, the exercise your tongue section...you put your tongue between your gums and your teeth and move your tongue in circles. I couldn't look at him because I could hear him chuckling and really, this is serious stuff!

This is Ruth. She's cute. She remembered that Toyke was born in Holland. She's really good because when you do the running in place exercise she moves around!

This is Cathy, the main instructor....more about her below...

Toyke was not the only man in the class....this guy is 75 years old and had a nice long chat with Toyke afterwards...

So, here we have Cindy. We met her at the Thai Resturant with Bloxhams. She and her sister run the restaurant, they take turns cooking and waitressing. She came to our attention because she was talking and demonstrating her exercise class to some other people - while we were waiting for our food! Toyke was not too impressed because we only had half of our dinner! Anyway, we found out about the class so Liz and I went last week and had a great time so I dragged Toyke this week. I'm really sad that President's Day is next week so Karen won't be able to experience it.

The part that you don't see, is what we hear.....Chinese music...Authentic Chinese music. Through out the whole exercise this music plays in the background, and we are to exercise to the music...not so easy.