Working Out

The kids and I use to walk with one of our neighbors each morning. I knew that I wanted to get a treadmill because winter would be coming and I wanted to have a "Plan B" in place for those too cold mornings. Well, finally in December I was able to get my treadmill. It is a doosey! It has a jack for my iPod so I don't have to use headphones while working out, how cool is that.

Right now I'm just doing 30 minutes of walking and running each day except Wednesday and Sunday. Yes, I did say running - its not pretty, but it is still running. The hardest part is dragging my hips out of bed in the morning. I'm up at 6 am (usually), go down to the basement and do my warm-up and stretching then hop on the treadmill all pumped up to burn fat. The treadmill has pre-programmed interval workouts so I'm walking and running, and I stretch after my session is over.

Last week I pulled my trusty old jump rope out, I remembered a fitness instructor saying the jump rope works the entire body - could this be the lazy girls answer to fitness? Do you remember jumping rope as a child? I could jump all day, everyday - piece of cake. These days I'm winded at 50 jumps! Sad. It is not easy getting old. I'm going to hang in there and get up to 2 minutes under my belt and that is without getting tangled up in the rope.

What about you, what are you doing to keep in shape? Are you having fun? Write back and let me know what you are doing.