fitness fitness fitness!
no we're not talking about moral turpitude and our fitness to be lawyers (haha, just a little MPRE joke for you 3Ls out there), but about the commitment to fitness we have found this semester.
my bean arrived last night and i promptly inflated it and read the instruction manual. my first three minutes pretty much made me conclude that it is worthless as an exercise device, but great for rolling around on and flailing your feet in the air. which, when you're as easily amused as me, is almost worth the $60.
but today i decided to watch the accompanying video and this is when i became a believer in all that crap about the bean isolating all your stomach muscles while you roll back and forth on a cushion of air. b/c i could only do about half the reps of the exercises in the 10 minute video. (no one say anything about my stomach muscles. i simply won't hear of it. even if you have a point.)
i am pretty excited about my impending 6-pack abs! now if only i can cut out about 10,000 calories worth of beer, candy, and carrot cake every week....
also, lex and i tried a new class at the AFC today--kickboxing. now the only problem is that all the classes we really like and our schedules allow us to go to are on two days a week, and we can't really pretend that we're being good about going to the gym if we only go two days a week. but this was way fun and gave us a newfound sense of pride (as tho my flexing for everyone wasn't bad enough) b/c i am very pleased to report that lexi and i kept up with a room full of 30 undergrads (and 4 women older than ourselves but clearly with a far longer term commitment to fitness than we possess) for a solid hour. fine, so their side kicks were a bit higher, and their 80th jumping jack had a bit more pep, but i kept running in place during our water breaks and they didn't. so i may not be any thinner that i was when we started, but i can jump around in place for a solid hour and that is way more than either of us could say a month and a half ago, so yay for lexi and i are our newfound cardiovascular fitness!! congratulate us! give us carrot cake!
my bean arrived last night and i promptly inflated it and read the instruction manual. my first three minutes pretty much made me conclude that it is worthless as an exercise device, but great for rolling around on and flailing your feet in the air. which, when you're as easily amused as me, is almost worth the $60.
but today i decided to watch the accompanying video and this is when i became a believer in all that crap about the bean isolating all your stomach muscles while you roll back and forth on a cushion of air. b/c i could only do about half the reps of the exercises in the 10 minute video. (no one say anything about my stomach muscles. i simply won't hear of it. even if you have a point.)
i am pretty excited about my impending 6-pack abs! now if only i can cut out about 10,000 calories worth of beer, candy, and carrot cake every week....
also, lex and i tried a new class at the AFC today--kickboxing. now the only problem is that all the classes we really like and our schedules allow us to go to are on two days a week, and we can't really pretend that we're being good about going to the gym if we only go two days a week. but this was way fun and gave us a newfound sense of pride (as tho my flexing for everyone wasn't bad enough) b/c i am very pleased to report that lexi and i kept up with a room full of 30 undergrads (and 4 women older than ourselves but clearly with a far longer term commitment to fitness than we possess) for a solid hour. fine, so their side kicks were a bit higher, and their 80th jumping jack had a bit more pep, but i kept running in place during our water breaks and they didn't. so i may not be any thinner that i was when we started, but i can jump around in place for a solid hour and that is way more than either of us could say a month and a half ago, so yay for lexi and i are our newfound cardiovascular fitness!! congratulate us! give us carrot cake!
posted by laura at 7:11 PM
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I'd prefer chocolate cake.
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