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Can real men do yoga?

By Paul Gould

Published: April 15 2006 03:00 | Last updated: April 15 2006 03:00

The house music thumping through Dance Studio 1 is so loud that thankfully no one can hear the creaking of my tired old trainers. If they could, I'd stick out like even moreof a sore thumb than Ialready do.

It's morning aerobics at Peckham Pulse, a big new health club in south-east London. In front of me, a dozen women in T-shirts, tracksuit bottoms and Lycra are stepping, lunging and grooving to the music, all in time to instructions yelled out by Meryem Ozekman.

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