HOBBY HUNT: Barre Class! 💪

Is It Just Me? Podcast by a couple of Mitches.

All right, we've been edging you for weeks, teasing you on socials after the announcement that Mitch and I are both I'm a hunt for a new hobby for whatever reason. I'm looking for a new hobby because I've got a lot of time on my hands now that I'm a single boy. Mitch is looking for another hobby. Why what was your hobby hunt reason?

Mitch, Well, it was kind of a weird coincidence because you told me that you wanted to look for more hobbies, and a couple of weeks prior, my therapist had said to me, listen, you've turned your hobby of making videos, podcasting, blah blah blah. You've turned that into your actual job, which means you need new hobbies because they're not your hobbies anymore.

That's your work.

And so I was gonna do this anyway by myself, like a thing on Instagram where I try different hobbies, and then by coincidence, it turned out you were in the mood to do the same thing. So we're like, fuck it, let's make it a thing on the podcast hobby Hunt.

Correct, And that is where ladies and gentlemen. This was born Holy Hart.

Yes, welcome to hobby Heart everybody, the inaugural Hobbyhart. That is the first time I've heard that, and it sounds like a gay children's boy.

I did add a little echo we choire effect to that opener just to make it sound a bit more beautiful.

God, you can really hear your voice, Mitch above everyone else's. You sound lovely.

Yeah.

Well I'm classically trained, so you can hear it. Come out there.

Yeah.

Hobby Hunt, Oh my god. This is the first of our few hobbies that we're trying out. And Mitch took the lead this time around, and you led the first hobby Hunt.

Yeah.

So this actually wasn't something new for me, which was the whole idea behind hobby Hunt. But I am going to be doing things in the next few weeks during hobby Hunt where it's going to be out of my comfort zone because it's a smack bang in my comfort zone. I dragged you and Jenna along to Scout Polarites and Yoga. That's the studio I go to for bar classes, and I wanted you to see what all the fuss is about because I do bang on about it a bit being like, oh, I love bar class, you know, I

Yeah, I completely agree. And the instructor that we had was your normal instructor that teaches you in your weekly classes.

That you go to correct. Her name's Elle and she's absolutely gorgeous. So you guys got to meet her.

So if you want to head along to our Instagram at couple of mitches, we've got the video, which I feel.

Is highly necessary to really understand what we were doing.

I'll do my best to describe it here on the podcast, but the video drops Monday afternoon on Instagram.

Make sure you keep an eye out.

I feel like I should explain before we get too carried away what bar actually is. It's spelled bre. It's not like a bar as in a pub. It's kind of like yoga and polarates, but it incorporates elements of ballet as well, hence the ballet bar that you often lean on. And it says online that bar is a toning workout which engages muscles deep inside your body that your standard exercises like squats, and lunges and sit ups do not reach.

I agree with that A lot about, to be honest with you, a lot of bounce and up and down. It felt like I was a toddler at some sort of child's class looking at myself in the mirror.

But no, I'm not gonna knock it. I'll give you my verdict at the end.

Yeah, okay, Well, as you're about to hear, there were muscles that Mitch Jerry didn't know he had, that he discovered in the class. It was quite funny to witness, to be honest, but in this audio, just imagine there being really fun music playing because obviously we've had to remove the background music and edit it out so that there's no licensing shit. But we started with a dance

Actually, I don't mind.

It was just you know, I just do you think? Let's roll it? So this is the warm up?

Is it?

At the bar? Class?

Beautiful?

Al is here and instruct that today. Got any words of warning for Cheervy here? What can you expect?

They're heavier than I look Mitch and Jenna?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, yeah, completely, it's gonna hurt. Okay, you're gonna sweat yep, and you're definitely going to dance like a pro.

Oh we can do that.

Yeah, that's like a normal saiday night. Now, do you want to dance warm up?

We better?

Oh?

Yeah, yes, want to dance warm up?

Let's do it?

My heart wright's already at one twenty? Is that a problem?

And I haven't Well, it's about to lift up. We're going to do my favorite warm up dance. It's maybe Taylor Swift. We may be about to shake it off.

Okay, fantastic, all right, we're going to go for a little grape mind do we know how to do that? One? We go to the side, We have a little clap.

Can you kick yourself in the bike so I don't have to?

Yeah?

And you ever required? Have you done this before?

I'm sim Is it anything like bomba bar class?

No step for the dance part, there's music. Let's kick it out again.

I lied to you.

Generally, it's like saying it's.

Now from here, we're going to do a plattis berth.

Are you were ready?

We wrote down, play your hands, step it out, step it in. Now you can go a bit harder. We can make it a little jump if you like, Yeah, there we go.

Do you just have a DC on site?

Just I hope I may never have to use one?

Okay, George, isn't this more fun than your hot girl warf? Full shift about that?

This is a warmer all right?

We haven't even gotten the bar involved, mate, Fucking hell.

That was pre bar involvement.

Oh yeah, And so we eventually did get the bar involved. We had like one hand holding onto the bar for support while we were doing some plaids, which is where the ballet.

Influence comes into it.

So obviously you'll see it in the video, but for now it's pictures doing slut drops on our tippy toes.

That's pretty much what we were doing.

And it was also at this point what you're about to hear while we were doing the pleas that you Mitch decided to do like a parent teacher interview with l who's my regular instructor, and get some feedback on how I do in class, which made me very nervous.

All right, here it is.

Let's do some pleas. That's what we came for, right.

Is that like a baked good?

Yes, Fanta, it's.

This beautiful little cinnamon scroll thing.

Yeah, I'm down.

Tail shoots to the.

Floor, eyes scream.

Where'd that come from?

That's in the quad?

All little squeezes up doesn't hurt it all. No, it's a smile, not a grimmace. I'm sure in there four three two one. We're gonna lift all the way upstands super tall, keep your heels lifted, Elle, Yes, did.

You treat Mitch?

And I say treat because I feel this is a mental condition on a daily basis, on a weekly basis. If this was like a parent teacher interview, Yes, and I'm his parent, and I ask, how is my gorgeous child doing? What is your review and take on Mitchell's ability? Got to pepay.

Look, min, she's nailing the plia. He's really nailing it. I'm going to give him an a plus for that.

Okay, I'm not about general classes like normal classes.

Oh he's getting so strong. I'm actually very impressed.

Oh well, he gets to take a bower right.

Now, did you do that make you good at sport? From that?

Does that, Mitch, make you feel good?

Because I know you were anxious about doing it in front of her and bringing us to the studio that you go to space.

Yeah, I remember, I told you guys before we agreed to do this, before we organize the bar class that I was like, I just think l is so cool and if we were in high school together, I would think, Oh, she's too cool for me. I can't talk to her. She's one of the cool kids. So when you asked her to give feedback, I was like, this could crush me. Like she has that favorite teacher energy where if they ever said anything bad about you, it would just destroy you.

And I thought, oh my god, if she says I'm bad at bar, I might cry.

Yeah, there's not many people on planet Earth that have that sort of fucking power over me.

She's very cool, Like I was very intimidated by it, and the way you fucking positioned it was Genner at the back, You're in the middle, that I'm at the front in front of the instructor, and I've never done it before. It's like putting a ninety year old woman in exit row on a virgin fly.

I needed you up the front so you could pay attention because I've done it a million times before, mate, true.

True, And I think you just wanted to check out my ass. To be perfectly honest with you.

I was checking out my own in the mirror, just quietly.

I was checking out yours too. What do we do next? Because I've mentally blocked it all out.

So this is when we did like, fuck, it's hard to describe. It was when we like did those flamingo neils. So like you know when you go to church and they make you genuflect at the altar, like get on one knee. Actually, the way I described it was it's like you're getting down on one knee to propose, but then before your knee hits the ground, you change your mind and go op.

Actually I'm not proposing, so.

So it's like you get down on one knee, but your knee never touches the ground.

You just go up and down and it fucking burns.

Yeah, this was really hard. This was not This was like the middle of the class, would you say?

Yeah?

And this is also the part where I was a bit embarrassed because you kept asking l questions, and some of them were so inappropriate as you're about to hear.

All right, let's stand and face the bar.

Let's bring the shoulders relaxed by our sides, our feet are in parallel on train tracks. Slift your right leg for me. You're a little flamingo. You know I was gonna say that, but it's true.

All right, here we go.

Can we sit all the way back so that our shin hovers above the match?

Eggs lift?

Let's go a little bit quicker.

Muscles being activated that have never been used since I came out of the womb.

I think I'm regrowing an umbilical cord.

Oh, you need to jump a little bit closer to that bar.

I'm actually telling Yeah.

Now, would you say my quad's are gorgeous?

I would say that, Yes, I know a good cord when I see her.

Yeah, now my penis has gone fully inverted?

Is that normal?

I can't comment.

Okay, don't speak to my teacher line as show my faith here again, I'm asking serious questions.

You get some overshare sometimes. That was definitely next level.

That's all the indolphins.

Dolphins don't I can't focus.

Dolphins that you told her your penis was inverted.

I was like, Mitchell, she's sweet. She appreciate didn't appreciate it, I'm sure, but she like she was fine.

She handled that like she's fine. She's fine, She's a good sport.

You asked a lot of questions of l Some were inappropriate, some of them were actually quite interesting. This is when you asked about the history of pilates, and I didn't even know this.

Oh yeah, el can you what's the go with pilarates?

Is it like a new thing?

What's the do you have like a story of pilates?

Pilates is are very old?

Really?

Yes?

So Joseph Pillarties invented it in the twenties. Let's pulse here a little pulse. So it started out originally the exercises he was inspired by gymnastics and boxing, That's the two that he got inspired by. But when he was a prisoner of war, Wow decided to find exercises he could do in a self in four three two. So by the time he moved to America in the forties, he started Joe's Jim was not called pilates. It was called contrology. And his whole thing was actually about finding control.

Sound starts in a prison cell and ends at a gym? Okay, so was he he had to be gay? I mean this is straight?

Oh really closeted?

No, he had.

He had multiple wives and very pretty ballerina lovers.

Wow, let's go well, surely that's ten reps.

So disrespectful. I just yelled back at her, so rude, Mitchel, I don't listen.

You were trying to distract her, weren't you. But the whole time she's giving you his three lesson but and pulse and up like she was not going to be thrown So impressive. And he spent time in a prison mal narish daily three two Like, if that doesn't convince you to sign up for Pilarates, what were true?

You can do it in prison?

True? I know, true? Very impressive. I love that history. I can't believe that a man in prison, he's so gay. By the way, started Pilarates good history? Yeah?

Is it just mean podcast by a coupla mitches?

Anyway, So I'll play one more for you.

So this is when we were doing a balancing exercise. And I'm really shit at those because even after all these months of classes, I cannot balance to save my life. And so we were sort of lunging one foot forward, one foot behind us on the mat. But then we lifted the back foot, and so we're balancing on one and the whole time we also had hand weights in our hands to make it even harder. But this was

I missheard. I misheard.

I was clearly very hungry. Yeah, this was a very awkward moment.

All right, we're going to do some hand weights.

Oh yum.

Yeah.

Now I'm going to warn you this is high wrap, even the slow load, so don't be deceived.

To one point five kits.

Why they called hand weights?

How are you holding them?

Let's think about it.

Oh no, I thought she said hand weights, ham weight.

Yes, I seriously thought that way.

You said, oh yeah, I'm not even making it a dumb job. You're going to bring out a Christmas hame.

Lift it.

That's what we trained for.

Donnie's good. I thought you were going to give me some wine.

Let's all face outwards. We're going to stand out right foot forwards.

Okay, We're going to find our lunch position here, so your front knee stacks over your front ankle.

Take those handweights back behind you. Now from here we're going to lift that back foot. We're going to squeeze the weights in a little bicep, curl and stretch it back.

Find your balance exhaler lifted up, stretch it back.

So we do a lot of balance work in bar.

What's the reason again.

So that when you're eighty you don't have to lean on a piece of furniture to put your on pants on.

That's why eighty.

Yeah that happens.

Yeah, balance, I'm the worst at all that.

But balance, just like any other aspect of fitness, can be trained. I like endurance, just like strength, Just like your health, balance is trainable.

Is it normal to not be able to balance on one side?

Bard? Yes, that is really normal.

Oh God, unfortunately we're all a little uneven.

Well did you ever we fit bored when you're a child?

No? I didn't. Interesting.

That shocks me.

You've got to admit, though, Mitchell.

For someone like me with eighty h to d it doesn't get boring because they move They move on so quick.

And keep it interesting.

This has been so quick.

The idea of going for a fifty minute walk makes me sick.

God, I was so rude to bored. Was it very shocking that she didn't?

Oh?

I think she frothed it, to be honest, Okay, so that is our hobby hunt hobby number one at a bar class at the Polate Studio. Yeah, to be honest, that's pretty much as much audio as we can play on the podcast, because it was at this point in the class that like, we all got so puffed we couldn't freaking talk. So you're gonna have to check out the video, like I said at couple of mitches on Instagram, if you want to see the part where we really start to struggle.

It was really hard. So I will say, let's make a decision. Now, are we going to continue with this hobby? Will we power through?

Mitch? I mean you go first. I think I know your answer.

Of course.

The one thing I hate about being back home and Bogengate at the moment is that I'm missing my bar classes.

Okay, so yeah, it's a no brainer. Mitch is continuing, but I might even up at to three a week. Fuck, it's a lot, eh, Jenna, will you continue Bar.

Well, I was lied to.

I told that bar was similar to zumba. Huh.

But you know what, I enjoyed it.

I had a lot of fun and I will be back. You'll be back, yesh fabulous A right.

Well, my verdict, will I a tender bar class?

And will I continue on? The answer? Will shock nobody?

No?

I will not. I'm not going to bar. I didn't enjoy it. I don't like it. I'm in hot girl walks. That's all I need.

Maybe down the track. I'm not ruling it out for a turn. No, I don't. I don't like it.

I didn't enjoy it, and I felt very uncomfortable looking at myself in the mirror the whole time. That doesn't get me off.

Oh I mean, no one's telling you to do it instead of hot girl walks.

I did both.

Yeah, but I enjoyed it. I just can't see it fitting into my life at the moment. And that's the truth.

Okay, Well, I tried.

Like I said, it's perfect for people like me with ADHD who find exercise really fucking boring, Like it just.

Flies by the class. I'm like, oh my god, it's been an hour.

Already, does fly by.

It's the first time I found exercise it's fun, which I feel like that is a good thing, right.

I completely agree and that yes, and that's what it's all about, to be honest with Joe. Oh my god, what are you doing?

Sorry, I'm just googling Joseph Pillarate's. Oh my god, that is a puff if ever I've seen one. Oh my god, Mitchell, You've got to google this.

Look at him already.

He looks so uncomfortable, Mitchell.

The first shot is him arching his back for the camera. I mean, I've seen a couple of those photos of my snapchat last week. I'm look at him with the women, I mean, look at the body on him though he's very fitly. You want to know a crazy fact that I had a bioscan done at my gym this week. I've gone from thirty nine percent body fat to twenty four when last week. Yeah, oh god. The next hobby will be announced soon. We're not going to tell you, but let's just say it's essensual sexy activity.

Oh yeah, we'll bring that to you in a couple of weeks. And again, thank you to Scouties and Yoga for having this. They're in Saint Peter's and Marrickville in the Unesta, Sydney. They're just girl just I love them?

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