7:54 pm April 21, 2025

When I tell you I’m tired

My whole body feels like jelly! 

And do you know why? 

I TOOK A PILATES CLASS!!!! 

(The crowd goes wild. A guy is swinging his shirt like a helicopter. A girl just passed out! Another person splashed their drink all over the place!!) 

For months!!! I have been begging myself to get back into Pilates but my goodness the prices in DC are too stupid for me. I couldn’t wrap my ahead around it. Esp when classes are cheaper in LA. My mind cant stop comparing but I finally found a class with reasonable prices. 

I’m also a volleyball girlie. It was something I found the passion for again in Los Angeles. It was a huge group of Black Women from different backgrounds and industries, who would get together multiple times throughout the week for about 2-3 hours and go crazy on the court!! Talking shit. Laughing our ass off! It was love, it was life. And it was a great place for me to blow off steam when my boss got on my got damn nerves (which was very often) 

I got back into volleyball when I moved back to DC but it isn’t worth it. I signed up for a company called Volo, they put sporting teams together. Since I signed up late I ended up paying about $120. They had a 3 hour time span so I was like okay that amount of money matches the payment. 3 hours of volleyball OKAY BET! 

For the first game, it was the best 3 out of 5. And that was it? 

Excuse me?

Come again?

That’s it?

So you’re telling me we come in for a particular time slot between 3-6 pm and that’s it. The time slot is 3-6 pm my team plays between 1:30-2:15 pm ish. And I do this for 5 weeks plus 2 weeks if my team gets through the play offs! And I barely sweat. It’s a sweat but not one that makes you go, “Man that’s a good work out.” 

I think the fuck not!!! 

I was trying to push myself to do another season because I could catch the early bird special for like $70-$90 but that ain’t gonna hit the spot! I wanna curse. I wanna sweat! I wanna feel something. 

(Imagine the sound of the buzzer going off at a basketball game. Very loud!!!)

Then I went into yoga. I enjoyed it. It was very calm. I felt my heart chakra open up. I cried in a yoga class that was about slowing down. Getting back into your body. It was beautiful. Then I switched over to a flow yoga class. It’s upbeat. You learn all of the poses you’re going to do in class and then the pace picks up. 

Downward dog then put one leg in the air. Move into a warrior pose then put one arm in the air. 

The correct name of the class is called Vinyasa Yoga. 

I took the class before but it was about once or every two weeks to give my body a taste of something else. I would do 2-3 Pilate classes and pop a cooling/body reset yoga class in the end or a flow yoga class/ Vinyasa yoga. 

Nowwwww in the present day, I’m trying to find my flow and I think I did. 

The class I took was 30 mins and as I was waiting for my class time- I heard the instructor. 

And the voice was Black!!

That’s not easy to find. Fitness areas are so white. Finding a Black instructor is a diamond in the rough and honestly because of that I’m going back. To her class!

She kept complimenting us and I’m like thank you. My muscles are burning they appreciate the compliment. Talk my head up. And the playlist was chill. 

My song of the summer “Love Me Jeje” by Tems was playing. By hearing that I knew I was in the right place. 

It’s an intimate class that can hold about 10 people. Only 3 of us today. 

I measure how much of a workout I’m getting by the amount of “fucks” I say in class. 

Many of fucks were said and many of finger fucks were given as well 

LMAO

Never directed at anyone. Just something that needs to be said because this plank is fucking me up. This shit burns but oooo baby it’s such a good burn.

This tummy is bout to be flat-ish and you will be able to bounce a quarter off this ass lmaooooooooooooooooo 

So yes today’s class was Chef Kiss 

I will be back

I’m finally a Pilates girl again

See you tomorrow 

Say xoxoxo