Soon afterward, Miko and several others from Project Cameron were riding the Scale Trolley to Claw Coliseum, ready to begin their new healthy lifestyles. All day there were many things to learn, especially of Project White Lily.
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Yoga and Stretching showed how much more flexible they all were, especially those with large musculatures. Some of the more amusing things learned there was that, while co-ed classes weren't unusual, they were certainly more funny, especially when new guys were "bent into pretzels" while trying to get them into basic yoga poses. The other part of it was hearing these novices saying "Ow! Ow! Careful!" while getting bent.
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Aerobics was new because of all the high-energy music that was used, as well as the 90+ degree heat. It was really amusing to see new guys getting shirts soaked in sweat before even one song was finished. The reason for this was the saying "Get some Exercise! It's good for ya!", while a more modern adaptation would be, "Stop playing RPGs and start playing Beat-'em-ups!"
Gymnastics was also amusing because of things like how the balance beam was 10 feet off the ground (not without extra padding) instead of the usual height. Part of this was to remind uplifted Animalians of their feral lives, and allow converted Animalians to learn more about the environments that their new species came from.
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The most recent thing to be added to the weight lifting rooms was things to break and/or crush with limbs. For example, Miko found that her new legs were capable of crushing a 55 gallon oil drum between her legs. One sobering realization was that, while crushing coconuts between bicep and forearm was possible, the coconut milk wouldn't end up in the mouth; on the contrary, it would just make a mess.
Fortunately, a new thing that was added was a big mural on one wall that was more like the Ten Commandments of Gym Etiquette. This was a bit of a misnomer, because there were two sets of ten rules, one for guys and one for girls. They included rules like: 'Don't hold your breath, but don't overuse your breathing.'; as well as 'Don't distract others, keep your "thicc" comments to a minimum.'; and also 'Don't hog anything to yourself, whether weights, towels, etc., That's negative stereotyping.'; and 'Don't be gross, wipe up after yourself.'
Apparently, giggles and squeals that no one could easily locate was considered quite common, because someone done up as a professional pest exterminator and carrying a mix of dry ice and grape juice in the required tanks would come around and spray out the peepers. Because the mixture was relatively harmless, the peepers would call over their soldiers on the way out things like, "We know where you live."
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Cool-off was often swimming, but those who were of Project Cameron and/or Project White Lily got to test drive a new thing. It involved warm water flowing over plastic that was sculpted to resemble naturally occurring waterfalls while listening to matching music/meditating. One popular song choice was Enya's Orinoco Flow. Apparently, this was part of both Projects' use of Eastern Medicine to cleanse both body and spirit, but one thing for sure was that it was certainly relaxing.