Hey there....
So I went to the weight room to work out today at lunch, but my hubs was in there working out too, so I just went about my business, not wanting to disturb his workout. I put my iPhone, book (more on that later), water bottle, 3lb. weights & workout gloves on the treadmill stand and headed over to the weird sit-up chair-thingy that I do my sit-ups on. I turned on my hot pink iPod Shuffle and put my earphones in my ears. I climbed on the sit-up thingy and proceeded to do my sit-ups, inwardly groaning at the pain in my abs. That's about the time Bart moved over to the weight bench in front of me to do some curls with some very large weights.........much bigger than my dinky little 3 pounders. I kept doing my sit-ups but he was on the weight bench right in my line of sight every time I 'sat-up'. Ummmmm.........he's got some really big muscles. It started to get a little.......distracted. He stopped to take a breather and that's when I realized that I'd gotten so distracted watching his bulging biceps that I'd lost track of counting my sit-ups!! Was that last one number 42 or 44? At that point, I busted out laughing, had to explain to him that he was hot and had totally distracted me....and then my earphone popped out of my ear because I was laughing so hard! So there I was, laughing my head off, trying to put my earphone back in, BREATHE and still finish my sit-ups! This is challenging stuff we're talking about here, people!
Now let me back track just a bit to the point in my morning when I realized that I didn't have a new magazine to flip thru while on the treadmill today. Talk about a bummer right? Because I've already told you that the secret to working out (and tricking yourself into thinking you're actually having fun) is a good crafty magazine and music! So that's when an idea was born. I remembered that I did have a book in my bag that I started reading.....oh I don't know........FOREVER ago. It seems like whenever I'm at home, if I have any free time, I'm not reading. I'm paper-crafting or something related to that! So I decided that maybe I could read my book while I was on the treadmill....couldn't I?? Well, whether I could or not, I was gonna try, dang it....because otherwise my 'perfect workout equation' was gonna be totally thrown off. I even had some new Coldplay tunes to listen to today.
So fast forward.....I stopped laughing, finished my sit-ups and stepped on the treadmill. I started that puppy up and put my workout gloves on. I had a 3lb. weight in one hand and picked up the book with my other hand. I tried holding it in front of my face while reading, however it was hard to focus on the words with the book bouncing around while I power-walked. So then I tried propping the book on the stand, while still holding it in my hand but then it was sliding up and down over the treadmill buttons with each step I took. Finally I put the book on the stand, which was obviously a little farther away from my face but at least it was no longer a MOVING TARGET! LOL! I've come to the conclusion that this is the best way to go, should you decide to become a workout multi-tasker too. Put the book on the stand and hold it open with one hand, while swinging that 3lb. weight in the other one. Now I know that some of you serious work-out girls are really questioning the validity of this workout at all right now, but you know what?? It's more of a workout for the 'book arm' than you'd think. You're actually kind of having to push against the stand to keep the book from flopping closed while walking, so before you know it, you'll feel the burn! :) And who knows.......maybe I'll finish this book sometime before I turn 50!!
Well, you know that I'm a firm believer in QT (that's Quality Time) with your family so tonight I'm gonna practice what I preach. I'm off to spend the evening with my hottie husband, who is actually HOME tonight! No basketball games to ref! Whoohoo! I just hope he doesn't flex his muscles at me.....I might forget what I was doing! Hahaha!
