I taught my usual pilates class today, all the usual participants most of them over 60! Now I don't know whether you have ever done pilates but I like to add a bit of visualisation to help participants execute the moves correctly! Anyway today was no exception and during the class I started to teach an exercise where you draw a circle with your legs, moving from the hips either laying down with legs raised or in a seated position! So there I was stood at the front, and my class were starting the exercises in their various positions. Now was the time to add the visualisation bit so I told the class to imagine their feet were on a clock face at number twelve and to trace the numbers all the way round and back to twelve reversing it every time! I told them they may have a small clock or big clock depending on their strength - so far so good! Until a gentleman from the back (a bit of a joker) shouted out that he had a big clock! What I meant to reply was have you got a big clock John? But you can guess what I said! Bloody hell! Everything froze while I tried to suck the words back! Half the class sat bolt upright, one lady nearly swallowed her dentures,and then there was the hot flush - and that was me! I was so embarassed and they told me off as well! I daredn't open my mouth for the rest of the class it was awful! Never gonna teach them that exercise again!