I'm curious - for those of you who go to gyms in France - do you find French women particularly uncoordinated? Because I frequently go to the exercise classes at my gym and I can never get over how difficult it seems to be for the françaises. Most have trouble following the sequences, keeping time or doing more than one movement at once. It's like they have very little control over or awareness of their bodies. And I'm wondering if this is because the majority of French women don't play any sort of sport when they're younger?

I don't know about in other countries, but in the US (or at least in Ksam's America), it's quite common for young women/teens to play at least one sport. I guess it helps that most American high schools offer a wide selection of athletic activities, which really isn't the case in France (and even less so for women). But I just find it so odd though - here French women have this reputation for being graceful and comfortable in their skin, but put them in gym clothes and they flop around like wet fish!