Current Mood: Cool

Okay, so I’ll admit it. I’m exceedingly inactive. Couch potato to the max. I don’t get any exercise whatsoever, and that’s very unhealthy. Not only is it bad for the heart and muscles and all that stuff, it can also lead to brittle bones. It’s also not so great on the motivation to get stuff done. The winter time doesn’t help at all. I’ve become a lump, and I’m sick of it. So, time to get off my buttocks and motivate.  I’ve been interested in yoga for a while, but I have never had classes or anyone show me what to do. Or the motivation to really learn. And why yoga? Because I don’t do cardio. Nope, sorry, not happening. If I’m going to be breaking much of a sweat, I’m not going to do it.

So today, after giving a friend a coaching session on “stop being a wuss” about quitting smoking and getting healthier, and I went and motivated myself. Huzzah! So I looked up some yoga videos on Netflix and added some to my queue. Now, because I’m an impatient sort of person, I decided I wanted to watch a video NOW. Netflix to save the day again, they had an “instant watch” video of Crunch: Super SlimDown. It’s a workout video using yoga positions with pilates. Nice! Being entirely cream-puffy n stuff, even I was able to keep up with most of it. And I feel fabulous! My back hasn’t felt this wonderful in a long time. Probably tomorrow I will be singing a different tune (probably mostly made of grunts and groans as I try to move around in the morning), but seriously, that felt great!

Next stop: Learning all of the positions so that I can properly use my Yoga2Go system that I won from Robyn’s blog. It’s a pretty sweet little system. It has these cards with positions that have colored dots with numbers. You match the color to the particular workout you want to do, then put in order by number, into this plastic sheet with pockets. Then you hang it up and get to it. I’ve been wanting to use the system for a while now, but I don’t know the different positions, and I really don’t want to stop and look at the back of each card… So yeah. Video then cards.