AGAVE SCHWAVE! by Lori

Lori MaRose Jackson

Here is what is important for me to say. I have had a very physical life--ballet student, studying daily from the age of eight through nineteen (OH! And Buddy AKA Patrick Swayze and I were in the same class at Harkness Ballet school here in NYC; you can read about it in Patrick and his wife's most recent book "The Times of My Life"). I was hired by Harkness to join their new company, Ballet Internacionale de Caracas, in Venezuela, where I was shocked to discover that many dancers lived by day on coffee and cigarettes! When side-lined by injury, and finding no work as a dancer in the U.S., I took a job as an aerobic instructor at Body Design by Gilda, and eventually ended up owning the studio, along with two other very capable women. Small studios were finally gobbled up by the mega gyms, and I became a personal trainer (1991). SO--Up until this time I had been so active, I do not think many fat cells had found their way to call my body HOME!! But then came marriage and pregnancy. I was now 42; 43 when I delivered. I am now 57. It's a completely different game. Exercise too much and I'm too hungry, AND my joints hurt--not good, not for me. Strength training IS the exercise for age 40 and above. Thank God I found and became certified i n SuperSlow training and found Adam Zickerman and Inform Fitness as a home in which to work. This (and yoga, which I enjoy) will be the exercise for me and for my clients now, and into my future. When I'm not doing that, I'm hoping that my future includes a lounge chair, a lot of good books, and some sun; I deserve it!