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Why I Don't Workout



For Christmas this year, we bought a really great elliptical workout machine. We have four kids and we live in Northern Wisconsin. I'm also originally from Arizona, so a gym membership that would entail leaving my house in zero below weather, is not really an option for me. If working out is going to be a part of my life, the equipment needs to be in my house, where it is warm. I also have a total gym machine (the one Chuck Norris hawks) and a spinning machine that I love. I've had the total gym for five years and the bike for 8 and needless to say, I was getting bored with my workouts. I love the new elliptical, mostly because it is very quiet (which allows me to hear the television better) and because it has an awesome "glute buster" function that gives me a pre-programmed kick butt (no pun intended) workout that really targets my problem areas. The new workout machine was very motivating....for the first month, but now that I am 7 months pregnant, I am surrendering to the fact that NOTHING can motivate me. For the last four days, I have put on my workout clothes in the morning, in hopes of finding a 30-minute window somewhere in my day to jump on the elliptical. And for the last four nights, I have taken off my workout clothes to put on my pajamas without even so much as touching a dumbbell, let alone a machine. Tonight, I was feeling especially defeated as I asked my husband, Sean, to help me remove my tennis shoes (bending now gives me terrible indigestion). "Who am I fooling?" I asked him, "I'm too lazy to workout." Sean said "Lazy??! You're not lazy. You have four kids and you're 7 month pregnant." It took me a moment to take that in, but then I thought, he's right, I'm not lazy, I'm PREGNANT! Why did I need Sean to remind me of this most obvious fact? I really don't know, but I'm glad he did. Now if he would just go get me my favorite ice cream......

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