Well, this morning I got up a half an hour later than usual (5:30am), so I decided to do the other half of the exercise routine that I didn’t get to the other day. (It seems so long ago now.) I had already looked and saw that it had no leg exercises other than the jumping jacks that made me quit earlier. I thought that I could manage this now. Instead of doing a minutes worth of jumping jacks, I would count them. 20 seemed reasonable. (Time wise, that’s less than 30 seconds, but three sets = 1 minute or so.) I still haven’t gotten a jumping jack proof bra, so these were no handed jumping jacks (I say, that still counts). There were bicep curls and bicycle sit ups in the first cycle---it wasn’t too bad. Then came something that I hadn’t noticed upon first inspection, that silly woman wanted me to do 3 one minute sets of jumping rope. Now, I knew that if my bra wasn’t jumping jack proof, it wasn’t jumping rope proof either and there really was no way to jump rope with no arms. So, I decided to do my no armed jumping jacks again. This is when I realized why my calves were so sore from this. I was trying to do this quietly so that no one would see me in this position, so I was doing jumping jacks on my tippee toes. There were more arm exercises and then came something called a Russian twist. I didn’t know what that was so I went to the internet site that I had printed it out from. It never dawned on me that there would be a whole other set of different exercises posted for me to do today----all involving legs and none involving jumping jacks. I’m either going to have to lose my anal retentive ways or make these exercises up. (I’m thinking….lose my anal retentive ways.) Once again, I determined that I am NOT doing any more than the free 14 day trial. I back tracked in the calendar of weekly torture and found out that a Russian twist is a twisted up sit up. It is her way of tricking you into not knowing that she wants you to do 90 sit ups (remember, this is level 1 beginner). She has you doing 3 sets of 15 of one kind, then 3 sets of 15 of another. I can do the math, I am a math teacher after all! I did one set of 15 Russian twists and jumped in the shower. I figured I can walk with Chrissie this afternoon as punishment to myself for not even doing ½ a routine.
When I got to work (I didn’t stop for a sausage biscuit this time---I’m trying not to eat every calorie I burn), I noticed that I seemed to get shorter as I went up the stairs. When I got to the top I realized that I hadn’t been straightening my legs between steps. When I went into the teacher’s lounge this younger, prettier, in better shape teacher said, “You seem to be moving a little slower today. What’s the matter?” To which I responded (in a Christian school, no less), “I started an exercise routine with this little twit on the internet.” I stole the word twit from my friend, Melissa. She started laughing---hard---she kept laughing the whole time I was signing in and checking my mail. She was still laughing when I left. For all I know, she’s still laughing now. Well, we’ll see if tonight’s walk with Chrissie will be enough punishment to make me do any walking or exercising before she wakes up. Sunday (the day of rest) is coming though.
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