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Finally Healthy

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After two weeks of battling a cold, I was finally feeling healthy enough today to do a work out.  The last time I worked out was when I did a one-mile run and shattered my personal record, from a 6:35 mile all the way down to a 6:22 mile.  Maybe that’s why I got sick — I pushed my body over its limit trying to break my record!  At any rate, I have not been feeling healthy or motivated to get back on track until today.

I went to 24-Hour Fitness, which I probably have only been to three or four time this year.  The great thing is that I only pay $20 a year for the membership, so I can be as lazy as I want and not feel badly about wasting my money.  So glad I signed up for the really expensive three-year prepay membership over ten years ago, because now my $20 a year membership is a no-brainer.

I first tried a class called ‘Will Body and Grace,’ which was different because class participants are barefoot.  We did a lot of balance exercises and a lot of squats.  Nothing was particular hard as far as getting a good cardio or strength training workout — mainly, it was challenging trying to hold the poses and staying balanced.  It didn’t give me quite the sweat I wanted, so I stayed around and did the next class, “Body Pump.”  This is the strength training class that I was most used to, so getting back into it was easy enough, but I just couldn’t quite figure out the best weights to use since I haven’t really worked out with weights in quite a while.

Once I finished that class, there was a thirty minute “CX Work” class that the Body Pump instructor suggested that people stick around for.  Hey, why not.  And I’m glad I did.  We used weight plates and tubes to do a variety of challenging core exercises.  My core is particularly weak, especially when it comes to sit ups and what not, so this class definitely kicked my butt.  But like I said, I’m glad I did it.  Now only if I can convince Lisa to join me one day.  But for now, I’ll bask in the satisfaction that I am finally healthy enough to actually work out and get my body moving!

December Adventures

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Wow, it’s December.  End of the year.  One of my favorite times of the year, for many reasons including:

  • Getting together with family and relatives.
  • Christmas —  the giving and of course the receiving.  Enjoying the reactions of people opening the gifts that I so-carefully planned out.  Christmas carols.  And songs such as “Do They Know It’s Christmas” and “Last Christmas.”  I grew up on those songs and especially remember that Wham song, playing in the background as I hung out at Sarah’s house when I was a sixth grader and there were no adults around, whoa!
  • Lots of good food — holiday cookies and treats.  Oh, and some to leave for Santa, too.
  • Christmas lights.  Watching “A Christmas Carol” for the umpteenth time.
  • And most of all, time off from work or school.  Seems like I have become pretty spoiled with having time off around the holidays…

I am so lucky to work for the school district.  Two weeks off in December!  Sure, I don’t get paid, but the time off is so valuable and I’m always blown away that my previous jobs pretty much just gave me two weeks off for the entire year.  How did I survive?!  Two weeks off for every fifty weeks of working?  Sheesh.  Love my time off in December.  Maybe sometime this holiday break I will be totally unproductive by binge watching Netflix shows or playing video games all day long.  Whatever I do, I am just so happy to be able to have the time off, and to have it off with Lisa so that we can hang out and be together.  Definitely counting my blessings, I am grateful for all that has happened and for how my life has turned out.