Grandpa and I have moved to town. With a new neighborhood and a new town, I'm trying to add some new, positive habits to my life. I don't have my garden here yet, but I know where it will go, and on nice days as the winter progresses, I will work on it. I want to be ready to plant lovely vegetables when spring does arrive.
In the meantime, I've joined the YMCA and am trying to exercise. I am NOT an athletic person. I don't mind sweating and getting dirty in the garden, but just running on a treadmill makes me feel like a hamster. There is no joy in that. So, I'm trying some of the activities available at the Y.
I tried the free weights. That was my biggest failure. Even with no weight at all attached to some of the machines, I could not move them. I moved from machine to machine trying to find something I could do! I found one. That told me I should find something in a hurry to build my muscles and keep my bones strong!
I tried the stationary bicycle. That went pretty well. I enjoyed looking out the big window over the roofs of the business district while I pedaled, but it didn't feel like much of a whole body exercise.
I tried racket ball. Well, I was on the racket ball court with a ball and a racket. My daughter tried to teach me along with my 6 year old grandson. I swished the ball as much as he did, and sad to say, by the end of the hour, he was doing much better than I.
Persevering, I tried the aquacise. Now, I may have found something I can actually do. I'm pretty good at it in the shallow end, but once I get into the deep water I have a tendency to move all over the pool as we float and swing our legs and bodies. If I can learn to stay in place, or at least in a smaller area, I may actually succeed at this.
At any rate, I am trying to move my body and keep my heart and bones at least as healthy as they are now!
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