Day 4 - I wanna be like Madonna

I was watching TV last night, my favourite cable channel being E! Entertainment – channel 80 on Starhub’s Max TV. If you’ve never watched it, you absolutely have to. Celebrity gossip, celeb reality shows, red carpet moments galore.

Naturally, I was tuned into my favourite channel and it turns out that Madonna and I have something in common!

Aside from the obvious, it turns out that Madonna is a Pilates fan! Maddie (E’s term of endearment) apparently tours with a reformer. She does 4hours a day on the reformer to get & keep herself in tip-top condition while she’s travelling the world on concert tours. Maddie is the world’s 3rd highest paid celebrity, has 2 kids, the music career of the century, AND the most toned, well cut body that any girl could ask for. Some girls have all the luck.

I may not have the career or the bucks (or her husband for that matter) but I’m determined to get somewhere close to that body of hers and I’m counting on Jacq to whip me into shape.

It’s my first group class tonight and I’m a little nervous because I don’t want to look like a fool in front of 5 other people I don’t know. I arrive at the studio and I’m greeted by a chatter and laughter. Gulp. This group seems to be regulars and they all know each other. Oh boy.

I smile and acknowledge everyone and quickly take my place at a reformer. The pace of the group lesson isn’t frenetic as I expected. The banter and sometimes hilarious exclamations from my classmates set me at ease while Jacq brings the class through at a moderate pace. I’m beginning enjoy myself and gain confidence when I screw up whilst kneeling on the reformer, sending the platform on rollers crashing forwards. My cheeks burn red instantly.

Don’t worry, it happens to everyone. At least once.”, Jacq says. The entire class choruses this and assures me that I’m not (much of) a psycho-motor idiot.

Phew… I wonder if it happened to Madonna…