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tance and push harder. And I can tell — slowly, but I can tell
— that I’m better, and also I feel well, which is the major reason
I go.”
When Zumba dance classes became all the rage at a local gym
while she was still teaching at Ursinus, she jumped at the chance.
“It was so much fun that I signed up at the JCC,” she said, for
Sunday and Tuesday mornings.
The Havertown resident now mainly attends fitness classes at
Kaiserman JCC.
She still does the cardio-centric dance classes as her sole
workout regimen, whether it be aerobics-style, Zumba or even
hip-hop. “Specifically at synagogue
where there’s always a pew in
front of you, everybody holds
on. I began to do [the exercise].
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“It’s fun to watch [hip-hop] because [the instructor] has very
intelligently done different things on Sunday and Tuesday,” she
noted, considering the Sunday class often has more young people
“leaping around.”
“The people my age mostly don’t go leaping around,” she
joked. “It wasn’t something that I knew anything about, and I
have to say that I like the music of Zumba much better than I like
the music of hip-hop, but it’s great fun.”
The class is a bit more low-tempo on Tuesdays, but Novack
said it’s easy enough to follow.
During the week, she said, most class attendees are her age
— though some have reached 100 — and are usually all women,
too. A pleasant staff and positive group, they dance at their own
individual skill levels — “you don’t get graded on this,” Novack
reiterated of what an instructor told her.
“People do what they can do, and whatever you’re doing,
you’re doing something.” Hip-hop instructor once dropped to
the floor and popped back up in a class, she recalled, to which
women in the class burst out laughing, exclaiming, “If we did
that, would somebody help us up?”
They keep up with each other’s personal lives, too, meeting for
lunches or catching up around town.
When the classes aren’t available, she settles for the weight room.
She volunteers her time as a docent as the National Museum
of American Jewish History on Wednesday mornings, pushing
off meeting with her personal trainer until later that afternoon.
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