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Welcome to AMR Answers. This is Sarah Bowen-Shea. And this is Dimity McDowell.

Otherwise known as Dimity McDowell, the fitness instructor. Well, I'm Dimity Davis in that world.

So just so you know, I like to keep things incognito because Dimity is such a, you know, such a vanilla name that I could be Jill Smith or I could be

Jill Davis. It doesn't matter. Right. And I mean, you can literally slip under the radar. I mean,

you're just so petite, you know. Yeah, not, not memorable at all. Not loud. Not kind of, yeah,

in your face. Yeah. So, yeah. So I'm Dimity.idey, I'm Dimmity Davis, just in case you want to come to the Glendale YMCA after hearing about my strength class.

Because I want to hear about your strength class. You mentioned it because you told me that you got a new pair of Topo shoes because they now do gym class shoes. I'm sure there's a better term for it than that. Yes. And I don't know that style name.

I mean, they're minimalist runners, right? You can definitely run in them too. But they're just very,

I mean, when I got the box, I was like, literally, I was like, I could like throw it in the air and

catch it with one hand. I mean, it does not feel like, I'm like, there are shoes in there because they are so lightweight. Wow.

But they're very, they're zero drop, which I like and they just keep you close to the ground,

which when you're like doing squats and balance stuff, like that is really, to be, that's important,

especially if I'm demonstrating because God knows I don't like to have a lot of eyes on me sometime. And I'm like, okay, and I'm going to demonstrate a single leg deadlift and I need you,

you know, so like I don't want to be like teetering on like a big platform, right?

And also I have to say that our guest that is going to be on the Friday podcast on the March,

or March May 30th episode is talks a lot. It's all about strength training and kind of how to

minimize the effects of perimenopause and menopause. And she then does talk a bit about doing

jumping drills. And she said how it's good not to have a real, a ton of cushioning under your foot.

So it sounds like it could be a great jumping shoe as well.

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