I thought this was about grunting guys in a gym - and now we are mopping floors? ACK

Well i don't think anyone recognised me, but I was there last month Jeff. All you had to do was put on a frock.

I think the men on this site are really tough. They have memories like elephants, and they tease a lot too. I'm going to take my toys and go home.

Stuart, all my good frocks were at the cleaners. . .and I certainly couldn't let anyone see me in <I>this</I> old thing. . . .

Sorry to be boring and get back to the original topic (the thought of Stuart and Salzberg in frocks is sending me funny!!), I have been to a gym on a couple of occasions and got bored very quickly but one of the most entertaining times I had there was watching some guy who obviously went evry week and had a body like Arnold Schwarz..... whatever go onto a step machine and struggle on the lowest level. I went on directly after him, wacked up the difficulty level (probably some technical term for that) and stayed on happily, hardly breaking a sweat for 10 minutes. Don't get me wrong I'm not puny looking but I'm not tough either and this guys face when I took to this machine like a duck to water was a picture.<P>I didn't tell him about me getting caught by the shark on the rowing machine after about 50 metres.

Reminds me of the time I tried out for the police force undercover for a magazine article and during the physical had to hold a chin-up for 45 seconds. It was amazing watching these burly guys drop to the ground after a few seconds.<P>Also -- when our dance troupe was preparing to do a Slovak number where the women had to jump from a squat to their partner's shoulder, the artistic director made the women do pullups and again, the women I thought would beat me out because of their upper body bulk had terrible problems. I had no problem with the training or the dance (but I was also careful to get a good spring and hit my butt with my toes every time). Lean arms and torso do not necessarily mean weak.

ok - I am going to have to tell you my particular talent that all these years of dance has given me. <P>When I was in the mountains and we attended a campfire with many people sitting around singing and playing silly games, etc., - we were doing silly stuff like patting our heads with one hand and circling the other hand on the stomach - all at the same time. Drove everyone crazy - except me- I was GREAT at it. It was worth all those hours - years - of port de bras exercises.

Basheva -- that's funny. I do that all the time at the barre (when the teacher isn't looking) when we've all particularly destroyed an exercise (usually petit battement).