PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE EVIAN.Byline: Jenifer Hanrahan Daily News Staff Writer If your body is your temple, this workout is for you. ``Gospel Moves'' draws the faithful to Crunch in West Hollywood West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. on Sunday mornings Sunday Morning may refer to:
It's one fitness routine that exercises body and soul. ``This is Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , and for many people, taking care of their bodies is their religion,'' said instructor Ange Buckingham. The class attracted about 30 followers followers see dairy herd. on a recent morning. They warmed up to ``When the Saints Go Marching In'' and threw their arms in the air to ``Amen.'' They cooled down to ``Swing Low Sweet Chariot'' and stretched to an a cappella a cap·pel·la adv. Music Without instrumental accompaniment. [Italian : a, in the manner of + cappella, chapel, choir.] Adj. 1. version of ``Come as You Are.'' With the lights turned down low, Andre Burrell sang the inspirational gospel lyrics: ``Some people feel they're not good enough to receive the gift of the life that the father gave to us ... Jesus wants you to come to him as you are.'' Afterward, the noticeably uplifted class breathlessly sang gospel aerobics' praises. ``It's a cool vibe for a Sunday morning,'' said Darren Gold, 26. ``I like the interaction.'' ``It's fabulous,'' said Lynda Wallerstein, 39. ``You don't have to be religious to be spiritual. You can be Jewish and come to listen about Jesus.'' Amelia Patterson, 42, said she didn't even feel the slightest bit guilty for missing church. ``Everybody thinks you have to go to church to worship God,'' Patterson said. ``Now you get a taste of religion and exercise.'' The class, which started five months ago, has been attracting attention from media as far off as England. Cash Peters, a reporter for BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. radio, gamely tried to catch on to the moves. ``When I tell people about it, they burst out in giggles,'' Peters said. ``This is so L.A., and in Britain, they mop it up.'' Buckingham, a personal trainer personal trainer person n → (persönlicher) Fitnesstrainer m, (persönliche) Fitnesstrainerin f , recruited her husband, Christopher, to play drums and got three singers, Burrell, Joyce Smith and Anthony Michael Sloan, to perform. ``It's like, sometimes when we play, you can almost feel the spirit in the room,'' Christopher Buckingham said. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (1) Ange Buckingham leads a class during a Gospel Aerobics aerobics (ârō`biks), [Gr.,=with oxygen], system of endurance exercises that promote cardiovascular fitness by producing and sustaining an elevated heart rate for a prolonged period of time, thereby pumping an increased amount of oxygen-rich workout at Crunch in West Hollywood - a Sunday hour of exercises to live gospel music. (2) A Gospel Aerobics class features live church choirs and instrumentation. Myung J. Chun/Daily News |
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