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A kind of affirmative energy emerges from the group. "Once my husband complained that we rarely saw each other anymore, that we were like ships that pass in the night," says Grossman. "I told him that everybody in Jazzercise felt that way too. But somehow we get on with life, paying the bills every month and going to the supermarket every week." As the women leave the center, headed toward the market and rounds of errands, one realizes that the aerobic women's club is more than a passing fancy. Grossman speaks for many of her students when she says, "When we visited my husband's mother in a retirement settlement recently, I couldn't picture myself as a senior citizen wearing the suits that they wore and going to bridge groups. When my age group gets there, we'll be wearing sweatsuits, and we'll turn the bridge room into an exercise studio."