Showing posts with label fun exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun exercise. Show all posts

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Roller Girl

My friend Jamie and I had planned to skate on Tuesday and Wednesday this week - Tuesday didn't work out because an event was scheduled in the gym, but Wednesday worked fine! So at 4:45 or so I was sitting in the gym, blowing the dust and pet hair off my sad, neglected roller skates, slipping them on and tying them up.

Here are a couple of things I had forgotten about roller skating:

1. It requires your body to do actual work!
2. That work makes you breathe hard!
3. That work also makes your legs hurt like mad!

But what I didn't forget about roller skating is: it's mad amounts of fun. We need to find some way of having music in there while we're doing it, but it was a lot of fun skating around with Jamie (and his brother, once he got there to join us). I can't wait to do it again.

When I got home last night, I was exhausted and my legs were sore. But I'm so glad we decided to do it! This is exercise that I can happily do every day and never dread it. Once the semester is over and the students go home (four weeks from now), we'll be able to do it every day if we want. Yay! I love roller skating!

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Roller Skating Fools

Sorry for the absence in here. I haven't really had anything good to say, so I've stayed away. I've been eating crazy - it's not under control at all. I can feel my weight coming back on. I haven't weighed myself, and I'm not looking to any time soon, but if I had to guess, I'd say I'm almost back to where I was last year when I first went on the diet that had me eventually lose 20 pounds. So yeah, I'm feeling pretty crappy about myself.

But! If I can't get my food under control quite yet, at least I can start exercising. And my friend Jamie and I are going to start having some FUN exercise. Two days a week, to start, we're going to strap on our roller skates and skate around the gym at work. :) We'll do it after work, after the students are done with their classes (there are classrooms under the gym). Once the semester is over, we may do it more often, but for now they have things scheduled in there so much that two days a week is pretty much all we can fit in.

So, yay! Fun exercise, coming up. I'll bring my yoga pants in to wear when doing it, so I won't be in my work clothes. And I love roller skating - it's the most fun.

I'm also planning on ordering the 30 Day Shred DVD. I think I'll have enough money to order it this week, but I haven't figured out my budget yet. It might have to wait until next payday. But I'll get it, and I'll start doing that eventually, too.

And the food will get back under control soon, I'm sure. It has to!