We are so over paying that irresistibly affordable $10/semester (and summer) for RSF gym membership, and wanted to turn the escapade into little more than a handful of trips to the gym at the beginning of the school year. In our defense, even when we did have time to burn off some minty Newman-O’s, waiting for our turn on the elliptical machines and watching MTV-U on the silent TV’s got old real fast.

Thankfully, those days are over! We discovered an RSF group dance class, “Island Grooves,” and it’s got us active, smiling and coming back for more. This class incorporates fresh, simple dance moves to the saucy and sultry sounds of artists like Denise Belfon and Uncle Bobby. We love the class instructor, Damie. She reminds us of a groovin’ Pippi Longstocking with her bright reddish-pink dyed hair, bubbly pep and infectious excitement for the routines and us dancers.

While the workout was very low-impact, as dancers whose experience extends no further than the less-than-classy classics, we loved being able to keep up with the instruction and getting silly in front of those huge dance room mirrors. The RSF Combatives is definitely the place to be on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. this summer. Time to get off that couch potato booty and shake that groove thang!

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