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Article: Aerobics validates resolution horror.(News)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- January 14, 2001
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The combined force of New Year's resolution and "Temptation Island's" premiere drove some of us, after a year's long hiatus, to the gym this week. Perhaps it was humbling for you, too.
Basic step. Up, up. Down, down. In-in. Out-out. Corner to corner. Pivot left. Left leg lead. Pivot right. Right leg lead . . .
So says the hard-as-a-rock Step Aerobics instructor over the grinding, blaring beat of some hip-hoppers during a frenzied version of Stopin the Name of Love.
Instructors have headset microphones now, you know. Like 747 pilots in Lycra tights hamstring-curling in a surround-sound room with surround-Steppers mirrors, floor to ceiling for ...