Step 2 - Exercise

What? Step one? How'd I do?




Um, I did OK. I wasn't stellar. Not because I didn't want to. But, because I forgot to. I drank water in the morning and before bed regularly. Nighttime was easy, I have to take my blood pressure meds so I just drank extra. Morning was easy. I just drank while I was waiting for the Kuerig to make my coffee. Who know that 30 seconds would take so long after seeming so quick? I managed to get water in before a few meals during the week.












Am I a failure? No. I am not. I am human. Press on. I am still going to keep drinking because I am making my self a check list. In the form of a sticky note that will go on the cupboard. Eventually I will make a fancier one (Hey, I want pretty lists) and laminate it and put a dry erase marker next to it.

 
But for now my glamorous sticky note. Not even in a pretty color, just the canary yellow. Humph.










 On to step two.

Insert sinister music here. Dun, dun dun.


Yes. Step two is exercise. Remember when I said in step one that water was one of the hardest?

I lied.

Exercise is, by far, the hardest step.  It's just that it's so..... BORING. At least the exercise I am used to. Walk 30 minutes a day at least. Blah, Blah, Blah. I can only walk the same road so many time before I go cross eyed.

Not to mention it is hot outside. OK, it is hot inside too. We don't have air conditioning and it has been warm the last weekish. Weekish is now a word. Webster, put it in the dictionary.

As you can tell I don't care for conventional exercise. So I started looking at different programs. Nothing really appealed. Zumba sounded fun. Pilaties, Body Pump. The crux of the matter is I don't like being hot ans sweaty. Yuck. Sticky, stinky... bleh.


So my oldest (she is 16 pushing 17) and I decided to check out the two gyms (yes there are only two decent gyms in a 20 mile radius from my house) that offer Zumba and the others. This old goat thought she was going to try her body at Zumba. I like music. I prefer country but I don't think they Zumba to George or Aldean or Lady A. So I will make do. *wink*

We went to one gym and it was the geriatric version of Zumba. I don't mind those in the senior status. They have amazing stories to tell. However I don't want to exercise with them. I need something a little more energetic. At least more energetic that the class I witnessed.

We carried on and went to the next (and last) gym. I found the pool. Now why didn't I think of that before?



This will be me. 

Not Really.

 This will actually be me.









We chose the latter gym and became shiny new members with a not so shiny temporary paper card.


No, I won't have pictures. Or video. Or any evidence of any kind. The world isn't ready to see me.

We have a goal to go 4 days a week. That shouldn't be to bad. I hope. The gym has different things to do. So we shouldn't get bored. So let's get moving!


Keep track of the steps on my steps page. As I add more and more the list will come in handy! Let me know how you are doing!


 
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