Exercising

I know..you're turned off already right? Some may feel like I've just cussed at you. Some may be smiling like a crazy person and are off and running to go get some fitness in.

Exercising to me is a combination between being a wacky friend and a screwed up foe. I don't do the gyms for a few reasons...1) live in a small town away from any gyms and don't want to spend an arm and a leg on gas just so I can tone that arm and leg..2) have you seen the prices they charge?...3) everything can be done at home without all the expense. Sure there's a few more reason..but I'll just leave the stooopid parts out.

So, how do I get my exercise in? Well...I live in a small town out in the AZ desert. Lots of places to hike and walk. But my main way of gettin' my fitness on is via Jillian Michaels fitness videos. I.Hate.Her. Seriously..it's like she's a bulldog stuck in a woman's body. And she's like the energizer bunny..she just keeps going and going and going..and hell already..pause. In her videos she instructs you to not stop and keep going because "you can do it"...oh, guess that means I shouldn't have pushed pause approximately 10 times in the first 5 minutes. Hmm, guess I should work on that. Or at least think about it.

Now, I work out for two reasons. I don't have any weight issues, so I don't actually want to lose any weight. I MADE myself start exercising once I was diagnosed with hereditary high cholesterol..I'm only 30 and I only weigh 123..so quite frankly to hear that I had high cholesterol really kinda pissed me off. So that's what got me in to exercising. The second reason I exercise...I really do need to tone up my junk. I was just plain ole' outta shape, not tone, terrible cardio. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm NOWHERE near being a fitness expert or hard core. But I do force myself to just do it.

For those of you who have never set eyes on a Jillian Michaels fitness video..it's kinda funny. Jillian looks like a bulldog pushing you to keep going..and then she has these girls on there that are looking like the overly fake happy type, grinning their fake smiles from ear to ear. And behind their smiles, I'm pretty sure it goes a little something like this..damn $*@#^ !@@%^& and #$^*&%. I know it's a fitness video, but I call it the cussing video, because it tends to make me cuss at her left and right..something along the lines of "are you fekken crazy, you're trying to kill me".

As for a visual of what this all looks like...

This is Jillian

This is the real Jillian

This is the crazy image of how I would describe the other girls in the videos
Now seriously..who would smile like this the whole time...

Now here's reality..what my exercising looks like..