I have been working out. Having always said I would never be a gym bunny. I am now. As I'm getting older I want to be strong and I see dancers who can do some amazing things, partly because they are strong and focused, so that has been my aim recently. My name is Sara and I go to the gym three times a week.

I mostly focus on my abs and can do a variety of strange sit up type thingies - I do one where I hang like a wonky bat and come up from there. That one is fine as long as you don't hang upside down for too long. I also do arms and legs, but its the ab work that I love. Anyhow I have had to move out of the ladies gym because some of their machines dont go up to the weights I want. I dont like the mixed gym very much, cos the men do perv, so I do some sessions in the ladies and some in the mixed.

Anyhow yesterday I went with my husband and he made me do loads more arm work, because thats what he enjoys and it was good to share an hour of each others company. Then I went to put the weights onto one of the sit up machines and did a silly cartoon type struggle to get it off the floor. I hadn't realised but I can't lift the weights onto the machines that I lift with my tummy ! - either the machines have already been weighted or he has been a gent and put the weights on for me. Anyhow a couple of people had watched me getting stuck with the heavy weight and having to be "rescued" by my husband, there was definately a bit of smurking going on - and I then took great pleasure in doing three sets of repeats with the weight on the machine :)