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2008 Good Health-a-thon: Month #5 – Working It Out

This is the fourth monthly update in a series, following the launch of BlogHer’s 2008 Good Health-a-thon in January. Sign up (and get your blog badge) here.

Is it still “holiday weight” if it’s May?

Hi, and welcome to our Good Health-a-thon’s fourth month, where we continue to insist that good health does not have to equate to weighing less, even though some of us might possibly maybe think that losing weight would really be swell. (Ha! Did I just say “weight” and “swell” in the same sentence? Freud’s a funny, funny dude.) But as much as I’d really like to drop an extra ten (or seventy) pounds, I long ago gave up setting goals that had anything to do with numbers on a scale. I want simply to feel better. I want to be in better shape. So let’s talk about getting “fit.” And while we’re at it, let’s talk about when getting “fit” has resulted in some of our most embarrassing moments ever.

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Yes, with drawings.

Unless you’ve been hiding under some social media rock, you have no doubt seen alllllll kinds of buzz about Nintendo’s new Wii Fit*.

And let me tell you, this invention — which I do not yet even own — is revelatory. For years I have been joining gyms and starting workout programs galore, only to abandon them after a few months. But thanks to the Wii Fit, I realized something amazing: I no longer have to confine my workout failures to the real world! No! Now I can bring my workout failures to a virtual world, too! Now I can feel out of shape and hopeless in real life and as a cartoon!

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Hmph. This is maybe not the best attitude to have. Let’s try again.

Getting in shape, getting fit, working out, being active — these are all things we know we should do. I know I should do. But I have a tough time sticking to any routine because I don’t generally like them. I have tried joining fancy high-pressure gyms, cheap and no-frills gyms, hiring personal trainers, yoga, the “Y”, finding activity partners, the works. And nothing has really ever been interesting/fun/compelling enough for me to stick with. So the truth is that the Wii Fit sounds pretty good to me, because it combines a whole lot of things I DO like: privacy, convenience, personalization, fun, and uh, TV. I guess we’ll see how it goes.

In the meantime, I posit the following:

1) If you’re not enjoying your workout routine, you probably won’t stick to it. Try, try again.

2) Alternately, if you’re really not enjoying your workout routine, you should just blog it.

In the last few weeks, there have been various Wii-related giveaways all over the BlogHersphere. Some were very straightforward about wanting to know what their readers do to have fun while getting fit.

Jenny from Three Kid Circus asks:

so now – it’s your turn! tell me what you do in favour of the kid in you?”

And gets charming replies, including:

…being a complete nut all the time …wearing bizarre earrings, like the frogs wearing inner tubes around their bellies to work …being an elephant for my son’s “safari”

Personally, I love the notion of frog earrings being relating to overall well being. Rock on.

But Stefania urged her readers to share their most embarrassing workout, getting-fit tales. And they are hilarious. (Check out the cringe-worthy winner here. Let’s just say it involves 1982, high school, a cute boy and a less-than-coordinated girl…)

So in case you missed it, or didn’t want a Wii, or want to re-post, or just feel like it’s finally time to tell the story, I invite you to add your most embarrassing workout story here.

Getting (staying) fit is hard, in real life AND cartoon form, and we can all benefit from knowing we’re not alone in our struggles.

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Mine is below. I hope you enjoy.

From the original blog post I called, “Why Yes, Cute Fireman, That *IS* My Ass”

curves for women is a great place to work out if you are like me. and by that i mean overweight and out of shape and really not okay with the idea of getting on the treadmill next to some 19 year old who weighs 14 pounds and is wearing a sports bra and running shorts and talking on a cell phone that is way cooler than yours.

right. so the way curves works is that they have a circuit, and you go around alternating between cardio stations and hydraulic machines in a set pattern.

sort of like this: (picture erm, “courtesy” of their website…)

except the excessive smiling se

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