Once a T-Tapper

Today I'm wearing the black tank top I bought at the 2007 T-Tapp retreat, the one that spells out "t-tapper" in crystals, and a pair of grey Nike yoga pants cropped just above the knee.  From my attire, you might guess that I am planning to work out today, and you'd be right.*  But I'm not planning to do a T-Tapp DVD.  No, I'm planning to hit the Friday evening Pilates class at the Y.

I haven't done many full T-Tapp workouts in many months.  I just can't work up the motivation to do a DVD at home when I could pop over to the Y and do a class.  This has nothing to do with T-Tapp, or the effectiveness of T-Tapp -- I know that if I was devoting the same amount of time to T-Tapp, I'd look even better right now.  No, I just am craving the entertainment of leaving the house and being with a group and not knowing for certain which exercise I'll have to do next.  Working out is my #1 reason for getting out of the house these days, if you don't count walking across the street to the bus stop as "getting out of the house."  (I don't.  It's not exactly a high point of my day.)  And getting out of the house is as important for my sanity as exercise is for my butt.

This isn't to say I've abandonded T-Tapp entirely.  I do little pieces here and there... a Primary Back Stretch, or a round of Diva Derriere and Awesome Legs as I watch TV.  But the most important thing I do, what's really making the most difference, is that I've worked up the courage to do Organs in Place in the Pilates classroom before the class starts.  I can always tell that my abs are working much harder when I've done OIP first.  It also makes it more feasible (I won't say "easier") to hold my belly flat, to suck it in so it doesn't round out as I crunch.  (Madonna's trainer, I read in Vogue, moved away from teaching classic Pilates because Pilates can round the belly out.  Madonna doesn't want that.  I don't want that.)  It also ensures that I'll spend the next twenty-four hours rubbing my lower abdomen and trying to stretch out the aches in my torso.  But that's a good thing.

I also do everything -- Pilates, yoga, unloading the dishwasher -- while trying to maintain T-Tapp form.  This is why I can be found huffing and puffing and sweating through my pants within the first ten minutes of class.  Yay!

*This should perhaps be a shameful confession, but on any day that I plan to go to the Y, I dress myself in workout clothes as soon as I get up.  This means that anything else I do during the day is accomplished while wearing yoga pants and a tank top.  However, this part of the world is so relentlessly casual, it's not unusual for my workout togs to be one of the dressier looks at Publix.

p.s. Thank you all for still reading!  Will try not to disappear for so long again.

Comments

[Allison]

You've succinctly captured a) why I don't do T-Tapp much anymore and b) how I do use it when I do -- OIP/PBS before gym workouts and whatnot.

If there were classes I could go to -- where I could see real, live people, I'd be devoted to an insane level. Having to do it with a DVD? Eh, not so much.

[Ninotchka]

Keep writing! (And hey, are you on FB?)

[Kathy B.]

Help -- I've lost my bookmarks. What is the name of the web-site where you get great deals on shoes? I need shoes!