Posted by janis on June 28, 2000 at 11:52:47:
In Reply to: 4's and exercise (formerly known as the "e" word) posted by Amanda :) on June 28, 2000 at 10:27:55:
hi.
I'm sort of new to the group. have visited a few times before. you guys seem interesting. i like the topics. Anyway i am posting because
I just joined a gym yesterday!!! and am very excited about getting all fit again. I was fit before,(back when I was not busy, and I could just wander over to the gym whenever I felt like it) I tried to excercise this past year but i always seemed too busy. something would always come up. so i have decided to work out at 6 in the morning!!! this is a huge thing for me cause i am sooo not a morning person, and i hate schedules, (ISFP) but i think it is the only way. wish me luck. :0)
: Greetings fellow 4's :)
: I am interested to know who among us is into exercise. I know Hal is a health freak (I mean that in a loving way Hal:), and, up until recently, I listed exercise along with any other allegies I had - but I am now a convert! (someone better get a chair for Hal).
: I have mentioned recently that I had been in hospital shortly after Hal went back home. I was due to be operated on in the early hours of a Tuesday morning, but (luckily for me) things righted themselves on the Monday night. At 7am the next morning when I should have been on the operating table, the surgeon came to visit me with all my medical results and x-rays and announced that he and I were going to have a little talk. He then laid out the bare facts - which in a nutshell said loud and clear that I was in terrible shape and would likely be looking at an early grave. Talk about a big wake-up call. He said that I could avoid all this by paying attention to "the big W's" as he called them. Walk every day, drink lots of Water and fit in a Workout every opportunity I got.
: So....I have been walking religiously and drinking more water than the average fish - and do my regular Tae Bo workout....and I'm loving it!
: Whodathunkit! Me - enjoying exercise! I've blown my reputation so far out of the water that I'm gaining a new one. My poor friends say that their whole cosmos is out of whack and they have to adjust their thinking!
: What surprises me is that I'm not only loving it - but it's having all kinds of other benefits that I hadn't even thought of. I mean, sure - I'm losing weight, which is very nice I suppose (I don't really give a pair of fetid dingoes kidneys about it though) - but I can't believe how expending energy actually energises me more. Not only that, but I can concentrate better, I handle stress better and I even feel more emotionally and spiritually 'in touch'.
: I've read all this before - but to actually experience it....wow!
: Just for the record, though....I'm still a night owl (I frequently go for my walks at 4am when I get home from the studio before I go to bed) - and I ALWAYS stop for a smoke about halfway through my walk. I'm doing it on my own terms, Hal :)
: So come on guys....spill it.
: smiles
: Amanda :)