Butts and Guts: Zombie Apocalypse or Fitness Class?

As a college student, I think it's safe to say that weekends are reserved for sleeping. Lots and lots of sleeping. But for some unknown reason I decided that going to the earliest gym class on Sunday would be a good idea. So reluctantly, after grabbing brunch, my food baby and I made our way over to the White building. After yawning a couple times and feeling a lot like this,

I met up with my roomie, and we walked into the gym class right on time. The instructor, Arielle, had already started the class with a group of 6 girls. This made me super confused and gave me flashbacks to when I accidentally walked into the wrong classroom, interrupting an engineering class. Can you say awkward? Trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, I tapped into my inner ninja and quickly grabbed a mat and joined the second line of girls. I ended up behind a girl who had curlers in her hair. Props to you girl with curlers for finding a great way to multitask! 

Anyways, back to the actual class, even though I had arrived on time, the class was already in full swing. This means that Arielle hadn't led the class in any stretching before starting with exercises. A lot of the exercises were exercises that we did in Washboard Abs (click on the link to read my previous post). We did the superman halves, leg lowers, bicycles, and hip raises. Some ab exercises that weren't used in Washboard Abs were heel touches and scissor kicks that gradually moved up until our toes pointed towards the ceiling and then back down towards the floor. 

Since this class is titled Butts and Guts, obviously we also did lots of butt exercises. We did a long sequence of what the instructor called "table top exercises". For these exercises we were on our hands and knees. Our sequence started with us lifting our legs towards the ceiling and then lowering them towards the floor without touching it. Then we started moving our leg from side to side in a U shape, and we finished off the sequence with the good ol fire hydrant exercise. We completed this sequence for one leg and then switched to the other. After these table top exercises, we started a long sequence of squats. We alternated between normal squats, narrow squats (where your feet are together), curtsy squats (I felt like a princess doing these), and squats where we started all the way down and came up halfway. We finished off the class with plies with our legs shoulder width apart and some lunges. Afterwards, Arielle led us in what I have noticed to be the generic warm down stretch. 

Arielle was a very attentive instructor, constantly looking at everyone's form and giving polite constructions where necessary. However, probably because it was a pretty early Sunday class, she seemed to lack the passion that the instructors I've really liked had. Also, because we didn't stretch at the beginning of class, my hip cramped a lot throughout the class causing me to take a lot more breaks than I would've liked to. Either way, the workout she gave us was very thorough, and definitely worked out my core, legs and butt. Walking up the stairs to my dorm was a struggle and when I finally made it back to my room, I collapsed on my bed. When I tried to get up to take a shower I looked a lot like this: 

In conclusion, Butts and Guts is pretty similar to Washboard Abs, but has lots of butt exercises included. If you're looking for a class that works out your legs and butt, this is definitely it! 

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