It was a relatively calm and relaxing day today, and as such, Rarity had a lot of free time on her hands. Entering her room, the young fashionista was currently decked out in what appeared to be a jogging outfit of some kind which, naturally, was designed to be perfectly colour-coordinated, as one would expected of her. Smiling to herself, she moved over to one of the dressing tables of her room, upon which was a small television. Pressing some of the buttons, the device flickered into life, and she cast a glance at the clock on the wall. The time was right, and so she started turning some of the knobs on the TV. She moved through channel after channel, making sure to get the right one until, finally, she got to the one she'd been looking for. Her smile widened, and as the programme of choice began to start up, she turned and moved to the centre of her room. There, lying upon the floor, was a purple exercise mat, already prepared, and which she now stood on. Looking back to the TV, she did so just in time to see another girl appear on the screen, who now spoke to her audience.
"Hello to all! I am Countess Coloratura. And welcome to my morning exercise class!"
Clasping her hands together, Coloratura smiled to whoever might have been watching her, which in this case was Rarity.
"Now then, before we get started, we must assume the proper starting positions, like so."
And with that, she began her class by standing upon her own mat, with her legs just slightly astride from one another, and her hands on her hips. Naturally, Rarity followed these movement closely, smiling all the time. After waiting for some time, Coloratura continued.
"Alright then. Now, we're going to start off simple today, so firstly, we need to just gently move our torsos, like this..."
Slowly, the celebrity started moving her upper body gradually to the left, and then to the right, all while keeping her legs and hips firmly rooted in that same starting position. Rarity followed suit, moving just as fast as Coloratura had been. This went on for a few minutes, and after it was over, Coloratura then decided to move onto the next exercise.
"Next, we're going to do a bit of stretching. So..."
With one hand still on her hip, Coloratura raised the other hand directly upwards, so her fingers were pointed straight at the ceiling. Again, Rarity mimicked these movements, and continued doing so as Coloratura once more leaned her upper body to the side. She, along with Rarity, did this over and over again, several dozen times in fact. And Rarity herself could feel the slight strain on her muscles as this went on, so fortunately for her, it was here that Coloratura switched things up. She instead moved to her other arm, doing the exact same stretching exercises, followed shortly by Rarity, who matched her move-for-move. As before, these motions carried on for a few minutes, ending with a smile on the part of the celebrity.
"Okay, that's a good warm up to begin with. Now we need to get down to some more serious stuff."
To that, Coloratura got down into a sitting position on her mat, and so, of course, Rarity did the same, always keeping her gaze upon the televised exercise instructor.
"What we're going to do now is a few forward stretches, so make sure your legs are completely flat on the ground now."
Rarity did exactly that, giving a small nod to herself before turning once more to the TV screen.
"Alright then. Now, I want you all to place your hands upon your knees, like this..."
She did exactly as she wanted her viewers to do, which was indeed done by Rarity.
"If you're in this position, what you need to do now is to gently move forward, keeping your hands on your legs."
She demonstrated that move once before turning her eyes again to whatever camera was on her.
"Okay, we'll do about ten of these to start things off. Remember, keep your hands on your legs."
Rarity nodded, even though she knew Coloratura couldn't see her. The exercises began, and with each movement forward, Rarity could feel the strain not only on her back, but upon her abdomen. And, as her Mother would have been fond of saying, if you can feel the burn, then you know you're doing your exercises right. In fact, so into those exercises was she that Rarity even found herself speaking alongside Coloratura herself as the latter counted off the movements.
"One...two...three...four...five...six...seven...eight...nine...and ten!"
Rarity, being given a brief reprieve by the silence that followed, took a moment to let out a long exhale after that exertion. She was sweating now, and so swiftly wiped her brow using a fancy-looking handkerchief she'd pulled out of her pocket. But, she soon stuffed it back in there, as Coloratura now began to speak again.
"Okay, we've stretched a whole bunch of stuff so far, but I think we need to give our legs a bit more of a work-out. So..."
She turned over, putting both knees on her mat while her hands were palm-down further along. Rarity too got into this position, watching intently as the instructor carried on with her directions.
"From this position, you're going to take one leg and slowly stretch it out behind you."
Like she'd done with past motions, Coloratura gave a visual demonstration of this, and Rarity nodded to it, staying silent as the other girl spoke up again.
"You ready for ten of those? Remember, the exercise won't take effect if you rush through it too fast. Slow and steady, okay?"
Again, Rarity nodded, and began to do exactly that, slowly stretching one leg out, never letting her eyes stray from the screen, just so she knew from watching how many of these she was supposed to be doing. Coloratura, in a move similar to the last exercise session, did it about ten times with one leg, before moving onto the second. And Rarity, having gotten used to mimicking her by now, also swapped legs. As before, the two girls stretched that leg out ten times, and when that was done, Rarity again took a moment to catch her breath from it all, all while Coloratura got up to her feet. She placed her hands on her hips, smiling to the camera.
"That's good! We've had a great start to this today, friends! Join me after noon where we'll be getting into our lunch-time sessions! Until then..."
She gave a wink.
"...this is Countess Coloratura, signing off."
The credits began to roll on the screen, and Rarity, smiling to it, sauntered on over and pressed the main power button of the TV, switching it off. Now standing in the silence of her room, she let out a sigh, before placing her hands upon her own hips and giving a satisfied nod.
"Rainbow...you can keep your marathons and flashy sports, because this..."
Like before, she pulled out a handkerchief and wiped her brow, looking just a touch tired after having done so.
"...is just the right level of exercise I need."
Thoughtfulness came to her.
"Well...aside from running around town whenever some magical danger pops up."
