You Know What's Bullshit? - Coming to An Exercise Class and Not Exercising

There's a list of things about teaching/leading an exercise class that grabs my goat. Right up there at the very top is people coming to class and NOT exercising.

What the hell?! We're not kids forced to go to math class. We're adults. The class is optional. Everyone is there because, supposedly, everyone wants to be there.But then, every once in a while, I'll get someone who comes, pulls up a yoga mat, and does nothing. [Bull] squat!

Several months back, a woman of 30-something years came to class. She's friends with 2 of my regulars. While I conducted a special 1 hour 30 minute Yoga X class, she sat on her mat. Texting. Talking to her friends in class. Annoyed the shit out of me. So I directed my wit and tongue at her several times throughout the workout. It was a light tone. Humorous. People laughed. No feelings were hurt but my point was made. Why come then sit and do nothing?

This happened again today with one of my regulars, a cute, yet married, girl. She wasn't "in the mood" yet she came to class. While others lunged, did squats, and boxed the air, she sat on her mat. Other times she laid down. All times doing nothing. I again made light of the situation. At one point, I announced that we were going to lunge "that way" past [Name Withheld] then we'd turn around and lunge back past [Name Withheld] again. "This is a two [Name Withheld] exercise!" Creating a new unit of measurement, a [Name Withheld].

Worse, both women want to lose weight. But they don't put in the work to do so. At least one does come to class. The other seems to expend too much time and energy in trying to find ways to lose weight by doing as little as possible. Read: Irony.