This one was on the list for a long time – do a workout at home with some sort of helpful person on the TV guiding me through. It languished on the list, in spite of its obvious convenience, because I couldn’t figure out which workout to do. Should I buy a DVD? If so, which one? Better yet, should I go to the library and pick out a few, or look online and put them on hold and go pick them up? A great theory I have yet to put to practice.
No, dear reader, laziness won the day here. Turns out the cable I pay a lot of money for has a health channel, which in turn has many hours of workout programming. I just set ye olde DVR, recorded a bunch, and picked one that looked do-able (which means didn’t involve equipment I don’t have at home, and wouldn’t bug my downstairs neighbor at 6 in the morning).
Here’s the kicker – I did yoga. In my own home. Of my own free will. It felt pretty good! I added a brisk walk downtown today since once I fast forwarded through the commercials it was only about a 25 minute workout. Still and all, if felt good to do the poses – even in spite of the breathy, encouraging tone of the invisible instructor and the super-human flexibility of the ladies actually doing the “practice” on-screen.
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The goal is simple: In order to meet my 2007-2008 winter goals of staying active and maintaining fitness, I choose to try at least twelve activities I have never done before, each of them at least twice. I will record the results of those efforts here.
