Walk

I started Walking Away the Pounds the other day. It is a work out video series. It sounds silly. You walk ... at home ... in your living room. What is wrong with going outside and walking you say? Outside is below zero! Outside the snow is up to my butt! Outside if I get tired there is no place to sit down and rest but a snow bank. And those are cold.

I could go to the gym. But gym memberships cost money and what would I do with the baby? We don't even take him to a daycare so that we can work. Why would I take him to the gym's "daycare" so I can go walk on a treadmill? INSIDE!

I've got some hand weights, one of those stretchy bands, 4 work out videos in one DVD and if I kick the blocks out of the way plenty of room to work out. As long as I step lightly of course. Cause God knows if I stomp hard enough I could end up in the basement.

So I gave this video series a whirl. I actually enjoyed myself. Who knew working out could be fun. You start with just one mile. It took roughly 20 minutes to walk that one mile. She dumbs it down for you and you start with little things like walking in place and little kicks or side steps. Pretty easy stuff. Then the music picks up and you pick up the pace. Still easy but at least now you are starting to do some work. Then she added the weighted balls in. A good thing. It got a lot harder but not the OMG I think I am going to vomit and then kill somebody for making me feel fat and out of shape hard. I was working. I was sweating. I was mildly out of breath. My arms started to ache. Just as I was feeling like I couldn't keep up the pace anymore she switched to the cool down and then stretches. WOOT WOOT! I did the whole work out! I was proud for making it through and finally working out this year. Yeah me!

I have a cold. As I picked up the pace and my breathing picked up I started coughing. UGH! It is hard to keep moving when you are hoarking up a lung like an 80 year old smoking granny at the casino. I would have started this earlier if it wasn't for this stinking cold! UGH!

The baby was far less impressed by my work out then I was. He sat in his jumparoo, munching on a cracker and staring me like I had lost my ever loving mind. Ya maybe you should let mommy sleep more often! This is what happens when I don't sleep. I start dancing around the living room like a crazy woman!

So anyway it went well. I felt challenged with out feeling exhausted. Because if my big butt couldn't make it through the basic video I am pretty sure I would have been pissed. And probably cried a little bit. The baby really would have thought I was crazy then. I look forward to doing it again. A first for any work out I have done ... like ... ever. Now all I need is a good nights sleep. Did you hear that little man? A GOOD nights sleep ... all night ... because 4 am is not an appropriate time to eat breakfast and play with blocks!