The White Building, 5:30 PM, Every Thursday

You can find me at The White Building every Thursday night from 5:30 to 6:15, power remixing my heart out. If you haven't taken one of the power remix classes through your gym membership, you need to immediately. That specific time and place is when the infamous "Zumba Ryan" is teaching the class, and he is definitely my favorite instructor.

I only got my gym membership at the beginning of this semester, and I guess that I could just write this post about going to the gym in general, but I don't think that it counts as trying something new because I used to go to the gym a lot. I am also assuming that many of you have already been a gym-goer or at least worked out. If you haven't, I recommend it- and power remix is seriously the way to go if you want an easy and fun workout.

Ryan Lamb leading a group of power remixers. Courtesy of the Daily Collegian.

Let me play out what power remix is, in my eyes. You wait in a long line (extra long if it's with Zumba Ryan, but I'll talk about that more later), and then right around 5:30, they start letting people in. You toss your stuff in the back and, for me personally, post up in the back of the room so nobody can see your unfortunate excuse for dance and rhythm. You do a "warm up" which is honestly sometimes harder than the actual workout itself, and all of a sudden you're dancing and squatting your heart out. My friends and I are always laughing at each other whenever we lose track of the moves that we're supposed to be doing. In the end, power remix is a good time. 

Power remix is much like Zumba, but with more current music as well as some added squats and high knees. The difficulty level depends on what instructor you have. Zumba Ryan, who is this energetic blonde guy who plays the best music of them all, offers a pretty easy and low-intensity workout with his power remix class. I don't remember the names of the other instructors I have had, but I know that some of them are much more of a workout than others. Regardless of difficulty level, I always have fun.

Next time you want to work out or just do something to be a bit more active, I strongly suggest heading over to a power remix class. Whether you do it after you work out or as your only workout of that day, you really cannot go wrong. I'm a big believer in dancing it out, no matter how talented you are at dancing. I know that, at least for some people, going to a class can be kind of intimidating, especially if you know that you aren't the best dancer. I promise that it is one hundred percent worth it even if you don't enjoy working out! If you've been avoiding taking one of those classes, now is the time to do it. Maybe it can even make you power remix and Zumba obsessed like me and my friends!