Blackie, Since you are our resident exercise expert maybe you can recommend something for me.
Since I abhor the variety of exercise in which one sweats and feels tired, I was hoping for something that involves sitting poolside and being waited on by a hot cabana boy. Please advise.
My physique is currently thin but un-toned. I really do hate exercise..the above was only half tongue in cheek. I eat healthy and am thin but tres jiggly in places.
Does anyone out there do pilates? Does it make you pant and sweat like aerobics does, cause I'm not into that. I reserve those physical responses for activities that are a bit more fun, ifyouknowwhatImean.
Also, is anyone a house painter? I'm painting windows in my kitchen and it is a phenomenal pain in the arse. I don't know how you folks do it day in and day out. Luckily my arms are already somewhat toned (remember, I'm fundamentally lazy) from carrying around a 25 lb baby all day and the brushin isn't too hard. Just *monotonous*!!
I was hoping for something that involves sitting poolside and being waited on by a hot cabana boy. Please advise
If you have a pool, Id be happy to tell you about some water exercise/aerobics. Heck just manually vacuming the pool every other day, will work those shoulders and jiggly triceps. plus you wont sweat. As for the cabana boy, one wrong eyebrow waggle, and Mr. pot will be feeding him to the pigs... I highly recommend agains cabana boys, for their own safety. Thats my advise.
unpack and set up that weight set, that will be a good first workout.
I'm not a painter, but the ones I've seen lately paint the window frames and panes, and slop it onto the glass, too. After it dries, they use a razor blade scraper to scrape the paint off the glass.
Get yourself an angled sash brush and learn to draw a bead with the paint. With a little practice, you can do the edges of the glass reasonably quickly with no masking and no slop, plus the paint gets into the glass-wood joint to give it a proper seal.
Blindman (or are you seein these days? It's hard to keep up with you..;), I've got the angled sash brush and can make a pretty good bead of paint. I'm just SLOWWWW. Or maybe this is as fast as it gets. Like I said, house painting sucks! But it's not sucky enough to pay someone to do it, so I'll be back at it when the baby sleeps today.
Blackfoot, nope, no pool. I hope to get one, one of these years though. It was just a really sweet exercise fantasy of mine. But.......you're right, MrH would flatten my cutie pie cabana boy before he ever even got one swipe of that big giant fan over my glistening.....well, enough of that fantasy. As I said, aint gonna happen.
Ok, so pilates. Anyone do it? My SIL swears by it but so far I've been too embarrassed to admit to her that I am beyond a neophyte, when it comes to exertion. I actually am quite active...like to hike and walk and play outside stuff like softball but am ridiculously resistant to "working out".
Lillie, I think you hit the diagnoses on the head with those articles and I have cancelled my doctor's appt. Thank you again for posting them!
I have done Pilates....and I like it fairly well. I've used it along with Yoga for good low-key workouts....when I want to do something more along the relaxing mind-calming end of things. Of course there are always variations...but I likeit.
Hey HP- Another thought I had for myself regarding upping my workouts was that I might buy the Carmen Electra "Strip Tease" exercise series. It's supposed to be just a moderate workout but it includes moves such as aerobic lap-dancing. Perhaps, a lap dance routine would be a good alternative to Mr. HP's "just grab it" suggestions.- LOL.
Wait- Red Light. I forgot. In my case, the downside is that I will only be able to do this exercise routine when my teenagers aren't home. In your case, the downside is that you'll end up with a houseful of mini-me lap-dancers. Not good.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
I like Pilates. Mari Windsor has a good series. My best friend loooooooooves Gunnar Peterson's core training which involves the excercise ball and I would expect not a lot of jumping around and sweating. I am not an aerobics queeen either - I hate any form of jumping around. I will take a power walk or even run/walk, do yoga, I will use the elliptical in the gym, I will weight train and I love Tae Bo (lots of sweating is involved in this one) but I just hate excercise that is jarring. I feel ya find something that is right for YOU - you might try power yoga, supposed to be challenging but again you won't be jumping around.
HP, Uuuhhmm, well, I'm mostly itching these days. The prednisone is starting to work on the rash, but I'm getting dry skin now instead, which IMHO isn't much better. The stuff they gave me to relieve the itching does it by knocking me out. That's just great, but it kind of gets in the way of accomplishing ANYTHING.
I hear you on the painting. The "pros" charge an exorbitant fee for it, and then turn around and use college students or the equivalent to do the painting, and guess what, they don't do any better job than you do (and much worse if you've gotten good at it). Outside painting on a two story house, between the scraping and climbing ladders is near the threshold of pain, so I've hired out for that, but inside painting....well they just charge waaay too much money for what you get, IMHO that is.
HP, you can come by and sit around my pool with your glistening bod any time you please
Maybe it's time to train your H to be the cabana boy??
Sounds to me like you don't mind exercise... you just get BORED when all it is is exercise. I would recommend some form of dancing... bellydancing would be AWESOME... you could take a class once a week, GET OUT OF THE HOUSE... buy a tape for the other days... or some other form of dancing... but at any rate... it's fun, it's a work out, and it WILL tone you if you hang with it, etc., etc.
