Exercise – Not Fun, But Neccesary!
When I first retired, I knew that I would need to keep busy doing stuff, either around the house or with myself, to keep from going ’stir-crazy’. Well, I started doing exercises. It first became a real causal thing. I would start off doing some stretching. Now that was easy, but I knew I need to do more. So I did some twists and turns that I saw on an infomercial, and just copied those movements. I felt a lot better too. Who would have ‘thunk’ that watching those infomercials, would make me feel good!
I knew I needed to get more advanced in my progress of exercising, so I combined the stretches with the twists and turns and boy I was on to something, even though it wasn’t on a consistent basis. I would do it once every other day, if that often, and maybe for a few minutes, but I felt like anything was better than nothing at all.
Now, you have to understand that what I was really doing was avoiding a true workout. I felt good about the little accomplishments, but I knew I needed more. As we get older, the need to exercise is very important to our health and well-being. (Ok, I heard that on the news, one day). So, I wanted to do my part. Since I have been retired, I had gained 10 pounds in one year. It really isn’t a lot, because to me I still looked good, but trying to convince my husband that I looked good, was another thing! I think he knew, he was just getting a little insecure (but that’s a whole another story).
So, I got serious and made up my mind that I would get in better shape. I was getting a little gut, and I actually had hips, wow! I wasn’t trying to get rid of my hips, shoot, I felt really sexy, but I wanted to tone up some stuff.
My husband, had started doing push-ups, about a year before I retired and I thought to myself, “self, you can do those”! Well, I did, without telling my husband I was doing them and good thing I didn’t tell him, because it just made my ‘behind’ get small or smaller and I wasn’t about to let that happen, oh no! I’m not a big person, so any extra thickness I have on me was much appreciated, so to almost lose my ‘butt’, was not an option!
I had to do something else! Now, in my back bedroom, which is also my office, we have an exercise machine. Funny, I overlooked that! Well, I decided to utilize that machine, and I started rather slowly, I only did 10 to 15 stokes, at first. (It was a cardio-machine). Then I progressed to 25, then I moved up to 50. Well now I am doing 100 a day. I feel so much better, I look better and now I have “Angela Bassett” arms. (You have to see one of her movies, where her arms are exposed, to understand).
Getting to this point in my life, where I can say I enjoy exercising, is incredible! No, it’s not always fun, but it really is necessary for me now!
7/18/08 – RETIRED w/ 30 YEARS OF SERVICE FROM CITY OF DETROIT – DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & WELLNESS PROMOTION – WIC DIVISION (Women, Infant, Children).
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