MIL + Zumba = Hilarious!!!!

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So I started Zumba last week with SIL and really enjoyed it. This week SIL was hung over so couldn't make the class, but my MIL came with me instead??? She insisted. Anyway my MIL is a M&S/John Lewis loving 64 yo lady.
She turns up and it was quite literally the funniest thing I've ever seen. Arms and legs everywhere. Deffinately worked harder laughing than zumbaing!! I feel quite tight because I think she thought she was doing me a favour coming....and then she was a little embarrassed by all the ass shaking, thrusting and gyrating. I mentioned it to DH when I got back and he said I had been cruel to laugh....but I couldn't stop myself. And I'm still laughing now inside....!!
Would you laugh if your MIL was Zumba-ing a few feet away from you??

Is Zumba good exercise then? Do you work up a proper sweat?

It's very much what you make of it. Unlike a real high-intensity class like BodyAttack, where there's really nowhere to hide, it's easy to coast through a Zumba class and not work up a sweat. But I like to really go for it. I jump the moves like the instructor rather than step them like many people in my class do. If you don't miss a step and try and keep to the same level of work as the instructor (if you have a good one) you can work up a proper sweat.

horrible op.

You sound a bit of a bitch tbh.

My mum would live Zumba but won't go due to people like you.

Good on her for giving it a go & a proper one by the sounds of it too!!! I love Zumba & don't give a toss if anyone laughs at me-if I can't follow what the instructor is doing I just do my own booty shaking thing, who cares if you're doing it right so long as you work up a sweat-must be doing you good

Was she really laughing at herself along with you? Or was she laughing because she felt awkward and embarrassed?

If it's the former, then fair enough that's all well and good, but why come along and post this thread? So we can all have a good laugh at her expense? That's just mean.

Lovely- just what every woman needs to reminded of- there's always someone, somewhere judging you.

OP said, "She turns up and it was quite literally the funniest thing I've ever seen. Arms and legs everywhere. "

Sounds like laughing at, to me. OP is just shifting her emphasis to the hip-gyrating, because she's realising that's more acceptable.

I don't think anyone should go to Zumba, if they can't accept that everyone is going to try and copy the instructor!

My MIL isn't plump at all. She does keep fit twice a week and is slim and confident about the way she looks. She is probably slimmer and fitter than me in fact at the moment. I wasn't taking the piss out of her and certainly wouldn't take the piss out of strangers. It was the fact that it was, as NaiceSpam says, my MIL who is very proper and she was doing Zumba. I guess the problem with posting on here is that you don't know me or my MIL, I'll bear that in mind next time and not bother. I would never do anything to upset her. She is ace. The thing that p*ssed me off is that my DH does know us and he knows I would never do anything to make her sad. I think I will discuss it again with DH when MIL is there and he will she that she thinks it's funny too.

I am often afraid to try new things in case I mess up and people laugh at me. I console myself by saying most people wouldn't care or notice. how wrong I am.
You sound lovely.

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The classes are usually an hour, they vary wildly from instructor to instructor, I go twice a week, once each to two different instructors, they're franchise operations and the instructors tend to personalise each routine based on a track released by Zumba centrally. One class I go to is more choreographed with arm movements and more recognisable as dance, the other is more 'aerobic' with greater repetition and simpler moves.

When my regular instructor is away, I go to one at the leisure centre which is really slow and a bit lame if I'm honest, but better than nothing. There's a lady there that totally freestyles. Nothing she does has any semblance whatsoever to the instructor, the music or the rest of the class. It's like she's at one of those silent discos just doing her own thing. She's mesmerising. And hysterical to watch.

I see where you are coming from. She is your mother in law, you went to zumba together, and you both found it hilarious, and were laughing together. That is how I read your latest post.

We have a salsa instructor taking part in my zumba class. I make sure to always stand behind him, to see what the moves are supposed to look like. I like to stay at the back, and I cant see the instructor very well. We also have a great deal of "proper" ladies, and a few body building men, so in all a very mixed class, and excellent fun. As long as you dont laugh out loud at strangers, you are fine...

Your OP says nothing about MIL joining in with this good old giggle.

what kind of po faced serious zumba are you all going too? Everyone laughs at everyone at mine, it's meant to be fun. Get a grip and go to yoga or something if you are that serious!!

Quint I like to be right at the front so I can see exactly what the instructor is doing. I'm totally anal about getting it right. It bugs me in the extreme on occasion when she gets it wrong

I knew someone would come out with the po faced bollocks.

@ the mental image of a pair of po-faced bollocks

It's okay. I laughed at your spelling and lack of grammar. Want to laugh with me, or is it something that we should all chill about. I definitely worked harder whilst at school.

Vivi don't laugh on here you might get linched!!!
I love Zumba....I am pretty crap at it but I try. We do 2 x 45 minute sessions a week. One Zumba fitness (pretty fast and hard to follow in places, sweat quite a bit if you work hard enough) and one zumba toning (slower, use weights and do more lunges/squats etc, still sweat loads).

FWIW I don't think 64 is particularly old. Many people still work full time and it's not like she's a frail old lady who can't stick up for herself if she did think I was being mean (which I wasn't!!).....so I think you all need to take a chill pill.

Who cares Dawndonna it's not a final exam.

Is this one of those agree with me AIBU?

If you don't think YABU, then don't ask.

forcedinsomnia when you are discussing it with your husband again, and getting your MIL to back you up, show them your original post. Just for the sake of balance. Eh?