*Gasp* I Exercised On A Sunday!

I'm back on the ball, literally. Last week I was at Barnes and Nobles and I just could not resist their bargain aisles. You know the ones that happen to just be strategically placed by the checkout? Well, I've been intrigued by their workout kits. A few months ago I bought the Jump Into Fitness dvd kit that included a booklet, dvd, and jump rope. Well, I liked the concept behind the idea. I was a kid once + I had a jump rope = "this should be a whole lot of fun and easy." Well, it was and it wasn't. I still use the jump rope from time to time. But the idea of putting a dvd in the kit was stupid in my opinion. I'm not going to jump rope in my living room while trying to follow a dvd. So basically I only had the book. Let me tell you now and save you some trouble. Jump roping and reading a book is not a good idea. Unfortunately, I could never fit busting my ass while jump roping into my schedule. Just never seemed to work out. So I always ending up reading the book late at night and then jump roping days later after I had forgotten what I read. In the end, I just got lazy and said "whatever". The dvd is now lost, the book is under my bed, and the jump rope is in my bedroom laying on the floor.

Okay, so back to the original story. So I was in Barnes and Nobles waiting to checkout and I saw their Ball and Band kit. I've always wanted to try the ball classes at the gym, but no, that just wasn't going to happen any time soon. The times I took just the step classes at my gym, it was horrible. They went left, I went right. They stepped up, I stepped off. So in the end I've decided for my sake and their safety, I'm only doing step aerobics at home. Back to Barnes and Nobles, I bought the kit. It included a dvd, booklet, resistance band, and exercise ball. The moment I got home, I blew up the ball, stretched out the band a little, and read through the book. Now in my mind, I was getting my exercise on. But in reality, I was sitting on the sofa eating some mini chocolate cakes. No, no... I will not feel guilty about eating the cakes. They were the little mini ho ho cakes from Hostess. They now have them in the 100 calorie packs. I like them a lot and for less than a 100 calories they are a winner in my book.

So today, I finally got off my sofa and did the workout. In my defense though from doing no exercise last week, even though I said I would, I had a lot of things going on medically so I was unable to exercise. But now I'm okay so I'm good to go. Well, the workout was crazy. In a good way. Their are two instructors, a male and a female, Mark and Dina. Mark was a nice piece of man candy to look at. Very inspiring. I did the level 1 workout for beginners. It wasn't too fast paced or too slow for me. I liked it a lot and was surprised when I started to break a sweat. The cardio section was a lot of fun. I liked bouncing on the ball while incorporating other moves like squats and stuff. The only thing I didn't like was I felt they could of done a better job explaining the core muscles to their viewers. I know what my core muscles are, however some people people don't. So if you're going to claim that it's very basic and great for beginners, then you need to start explaining things a beginner may not know. But all in all, it was fun.

I don't know how often this will be in my workout routing, but I'm definitely not ruling it out.