10 Reviews in 20 Days

What's your favorite home exercise DVD? I need your suggestions, wonderful blog readers, because I'm going to review ten of them and give away my favorite! I'd like to start the reviews next Monday, so that means I need some serious suggesting.

So, please, leave a comment with your favorite exercise DVD. Yoga, pilates, aerobics...you name it and I'll give it a shot! Although, I'm a bit wary of the exercise ball DVDs (and with good reason), so you may want to pick something else.

AND to thank you for your help with the suggestions I'll have a special prize for the people who suggest the 10 DVDs I review! I know you're excited.... =)

OMG, it's GILAD! and some other stuff

Like a beacon in the night, there he was. Popping up on my computer screen like some fit hunk of exercising goodness. His gaze piercing, his hair plugs darkened. Yes! It was GILAD! (Amy, I thought of you. Hey, where ARE you anyway?!)

I got an email from Discovery Health about their 2009 Body Challenge and I checked it out, because I'm not above wanting a free 90 gym membership to Bailey's. Yeah, only this year they were cheap-o and no free membership. Darn it. I was disappointed and slightly annoyed when I happened to glance down at the bottom of the screen and SAW HIM! WHO KNEW that all roads (or clicks) lead back to GILAD?!

I'm having high school nightmare flashbacks right. this. very. minute.

I'm seriously considering having a Gilad DVD as a Gym Mama Giveaway one week. Amy, I hope you win. (And I repeat...where ARE you anyway?!)



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So, I got so carried away seeing that Gilad DVD that I forgot to mention that I worked out this weekend on the treadmill. And yes. It WAS turned on. 3 miles in 30 minutes, thank you very much. I feel lighter and slightly less winded because of it.

It also gave me a chance to think about why I like working out in my very own laundry room/treadmill room/food storage area. Here's my Top Ten:

1. I can sing as loud as I want and no one will kick me out.

2. I can sweat and not worry about looking...sweaty.

3. I can do laundry (if my husband would ever bring it TO the laundry room, and btw, honey, I'm sorry you're out of boxers, but really, I can't carry the baby and the laundry down 2 flights of stairs without maxing out our health insurance coverage) and exercise at the same time.

4. I can walk at 2.0 mph without feeling guilty, because there's some lunatic going 8.0 mph next to me. (Seriously, you're on a treadmill. No matter how fast you run you're not going to get any further than right here.)

5. Did I mention I can sing as loud as I want and no one will kick me out?

6. I can finish exercising, walk upstairs and be in the kitchen. Hello, carbohydrates!

7. There is no one skinnier in the room than me.

8. I don't have to pay dues.

9. It takes me 10 seconds to get there.

10. I can sing as loud as I want and no one will kick me out. Did I say that already?

So, there's the top 10. Exciting as always. =)


By the way, I am still trying to find 10 walks that fit into my schedule. I haven't given up. =)

Oh! And go enter the Gym Mama Weekly Giveaway! You could win. =)

Library Jaunt

We went to the library this morning after picking up the foam mats and I *FINALLY* got a new exercise DVD. It's called Exercising with the Exercise Ball. For those who remember this post you know why an instructional DVD is going to be for the best. There was also a video called The Chair Workout. Maybe we'll try that one next week...


Thanks for asking about the DVD pick, faithful blog reader Amy. =)

Weird Title Bar

Okay, so something weird happened with the title bar when I was trying to upload the new picture. I'll fix it tomorrow. It's off to work now for me. They have heat!

Putting It Off

I'm putting it off. Unfortunately, I'm not talking about the weight. I'm talking about the gym membership. I can put it on hold and I'm putting it off. I know I have to. Really, what's the point in paying for it if I can't get out the door to go?

But it feels like giving up.

And that I don't like.

So, I have a few more days until I have to make those dreaded keystrokes and resign myself to giving it a go at home. Which I doubt will actually happen. And that stinks.

Darn.

Darn.

Darn.

Gym Mama Without a Gym

Honestly, I don't think I'm ever going to get back to the gym. Unless Mary Poppins comes knocking at my door with the Publisher's Sweepstakes people I just don't see it happening.

And actually, I think I'd want to spend the day with Mary and the kids and those chalk drawings.

SO, what's a gym mama to do with no gym? For some reason "Home Gym Mama" doesn't seem quite right. True, I have a treadmill and an exercise ball and some hand weights (somewhere),but if you thought the Cardio Killer was amusing....well, it doesn't hold a candle to the exercise ball.

Of course the last time I was on the exercise ball I was about 30 pounds heavier and had just given birth a month or so earlier. But truly, it was an experience not to be forgotten. I couldn't get on it and then once I did I couldn't get off of it. If I remember correctly, my oldest son commented, "Oh, this is not going to end well." Out of the mouths of babes.

Home Again Home Again

After not getting to the gym this morning I was almost dreading going this afternoon. Not because I wasn't looking forward to working out, but because I knew the traffic would be atrocious.

Praise God, because all three kids went down for a nap at the same time this afternoon, so I was able to workout at home for the first time. After 2 sets of lunges, squats and some inner thigh lift thingys I moved on to abs. I got one set of each exercise done before the baby woke up, so that was exciting. I put her on my belly for the other 2 sets and I must say, that's a workout! You can certainly feel your muscles working overtime with an almost 14lb. baby perched atop them. So, the workout is over for the day.

It feels good. I haven't lost a lot of weight. Barely any, really, but I can feel my muscles working and coming out of hibernation. And that's a good feeling. And I swear my baby belly is shrinking. And that's an even better feeling! =)