excercise

I’m like an obese child when it comes to exercising. I hate it! Don’t make me do it. Please. Just let me sit on the couch and eat my McDonald’s happy meal and watch the abc family channel.

You have to trick me into exercise. Make it SEEM like I am NOT exercising. Riding our bikes to locations to do things. Taking the dogs for walks. That’s not exercising right? Ok good.

I don’t remember being traumatized at all when I was younger by exercise. My mom had the Jane Fonda work out tape which I would beg her to put in all the time. By the time she gave in and pushed play on the VCR, I could make It through no more than 7 minutes of the 1 ½ hour workout…stomping off to some new venture in my leotard which usually led me to my kitchen to bake a pie for my blanket.

Ben Franklin sold ‘get in shape girl’ sets (Wikipedia: Get in Shape Girl are exercise kits designed for young females to have safe and fun exercise at home).

After receiving a good report card, my dad took me to up town Ben Franklin to pick out a toy. Typically, report cards got me a new, shiny Barbie. But not this time. I saw a huge box containing everything I would need to get in shape.

Now getting in shape isn’t going to be cheap (so true now too – am I right?) I was unable to get the set I really wanted due to it doubling the cost of my typical report card treat. Which, I am sorry Dad for throwing a king-sized fit in Ben Franklin.

I really wanted The Ultimate Workout Set that included a vinyl mat for doing floor exercises, swivel handle jump rope, sporty tote bag, colorful terry headband, wristbands and a logbook.

I had to settle on the Workout Plus Set that was ideal for the fashion conscious lady; 2 lightweight dumbbells, terry headband, legwarmers, a tape and a logbook.

I used the kit 2 times. Maybe.

The thought of exercising makes me want to kick things. And lately, I have come to blame this on my blood type (read Eat Right for Your Blood Type).

When explaining to people my disdain for exercising, I always lead in with “well, I have Type A blood and we don’t exercise”.

And to some extent that is true. People who have Type A blood tend to be vegetarians and should engage in calming exercise. (ME).

Know what’s funny? I married a Type O and this guy loves meat and aerobic exercise (can you say my opposite?)

Now, I don’t want you all to think I dislike people who exercise (not the case) but I do dislike hearing about your exercising accomplishments. Sure! I want to hear that you ran your first marathon , 5K or biked your way across the state of Minnesota-that’s admirable and note-worthy.

I don’t want to hear about how many miles you ran, how many sit ups you did or how many hours you spend on the rowing machine. And maybe that’s just me.

One exercise I do thoroughly enjoy is Yoga. (a calming exercise – perfect for my blood type) but instead of blaming my inability to do this on my blood type, I have taken to blaming my inability to do Mountain Pose in my house due to the ceiling height.