Stronger

For Christmas I gave, oops, I mean Santa, gave Sean an Xbox 360 Kinect. I thought I was going to give myself the biggest kick in the butt by giving him this toy. Was he going to play it 24/7? Was he going to forget about Elizabeth and me? Well, I have to say that he did till he beat Call of Duty. Once he did that, he turned back into a normal boy again and is pretty good about not monopolizing our television playing games all the time. He usually does that when I am not around. :)

One of the reasons he wanted to get the Kinect (and I did not mind so much) was that he told me about this game that you work out with on the TV. Huh? Workout in my living room through a video game? Hmmm….

Workout. That may as well be a four letter word in my vocabulary as 1. I hate working out. 2. Finding the time to work out has been very difficult in the past. 3. See number 1. Besides walking through the neighborhood when the weather is nice and the sun is actually out, I have done pretty much no real exercise since I was before I was pregnant with Elizabeth—unless chasing her around and lifting 30 pounds of human being is considered a work out. I didn’t think so either. Needless to say, I have my work cut out for me. But alas, I know it needed to be done and starting at the end of January, we both jumped on this train to see how it was going to go for both of us. I am proud to say that we have been doing it for 3 weeks and we both feel completely worked out at the end of the 30 plus minutes of workout that we are doing. In fact, some days, it just kicks your butt up and down the block. Sweat is usually pouring from my face by the end of the workout. Isn’t that a lovely picture.

What are we doing? Running—normally, with high knees, and kick ups, and sprints—boxing, squats, jumping around like a rabbit on something, curls, lunges, abs, and other assorted exercises with a resistance band. My favorite is the boxing. I’m really good at it and for some reason, I just feel the stress leaving my body with that one. I have already told Sean to beware and to never cross me now that I have some good boxing under my belt. But I have to say that running has been the most interesting for me. I have never been a runner. I have absolutely no stamina at all and never have, but now that I have been at this for a few weeks, I can feel it actually building for me…and I love it. Granted, I could probably start running down the street and realize that I am not running as long as I think I am, but I can feel that it is increasing and that is such a good feeling. Hey, maybe before we all know it, I may be a runner out of this whole thing. That would be nice….

So I have to know, what is the most unique way that you have ever worked out?

Music Inspiration--"Stronger"--Glee Cast AKA Ms. Britney Spears