Do
you remember when I quit the gym in March?
I
can’t believe you don’t remember. It was
a pretty big day here.
Anyway.
I
quit the gym for one very good reason: I wasn’t going to the gym anymore. After four years of regular yoga and
weightlifting classes three times a week, I sort of just stopped going. I blamed the brutally cold temperatures of
winter, the many snow-covered days that kept me inside, even my own busyness.
It
was a sham. I just got bored and lazy.
So
I quit.
Do
you know happens when a person quits the gym and does not much other
exercise? I mean, I do exercise. I walk every day. But still.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS?
You
know what happens. Flab and Sag come to
visit indefinitely. They are not good
houseguests.
So
when I read on the internet* (yay, internet!) about little things you could do each day to keep in
shape, like do push-ups every day for 100 days, I thought, now, I can do THAT.
So
I did.
I
did push-ups every day. I started doing
them on my knees like I was taught in gym class (Why are girls taught this? WHY?), and then when I felt like I could
spend a good portion of the day doing knee push-ups, I graduated to doing
push-ups on my toes. It felt really
good, even though I could only do a few half push-ups that way.
But
I kept it up.
For
like three weeks.
Then
I got bored and lazy, so I quit.
Well,
I didn’t really quit. But I definitely
didn’t do it every day. A hundred days,
people. It’s a lot of days in a row, and I was just getting started. I did push-ups every other day, then twice a
week, then, well, when I think about it I’ll drop and give you twenty er… ten
or so. I did push-ups a few times this
week. It takes like less than thirty
seconds. I question the usefulness of
this type of exercise.
But
at least I remembered to take a picture of my arms the first day I started this
nonsense, so I could see the difference a hundred days makes, even if my hundred
days turned out to be 20 days and the odd day here and there. So I took a picture today, to
compare:
Not
bad. Not bad at all. Not great, but not bad. Maybe I'll keep it up. Or not.
*Thanks to Alexandra from Good Day, Regular People, who inspired me to try this 100 days of push-ups challenge. Even though I'm a total quitter. Evidently this 100 days thing is a total thing. Here's the video that got me going. Try it!
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This post inspired by:
Mama Kat's Writing Workshop
Prompt #3: Show us a
before and after.