Sweatin with the Oldie

Since moving in to Heir Head Manor I have started a new fitness routine.  OK, I admit more like I got galled into action to actually get up and move when my mother on her many visits here spoke incessantly about her after work routine with her co-workers that involves them huffing and puffing their way through the Insanity workout routines.

"I noticed the gym teacher and another teacher in her thirties both had to stop and get drinks of water" she boasted "but I just kept on going.  As soon as I move to Vermont you and I can start doing Insanity together" she smiled at me as she spoke these last words.

Now I have always been more in the fitness realm of my father.  Every year he vows to get in shape talks about it for um, maybe ten minutes, drops down and does some stretching a few sit ups says he is going to  exercise and then mulls around until the next year when he repeats the same conversation sit ups and all.

With the thought of my mother and middle age looming close on the horizon I have decided to change my ways, and I have kind of sort of.  I am no where close to Insanity ready but at this point I can get through a twenty minute workout, provided it is not to strenuous and I don't have to move around too much.

Admittedly there has been no change to my form, no toning, or shifting, or wobble free muscles in sight, but it has only been two days so I figure I have to give it time.  If all else fails there is always my fathers method I can drop to the floor and give them twenty once a year.  It seems to have worked all right for him as he is still rocking his slender shape.

Of course he lives on ice cream can consume an entire bag of chips in an afternoon and thinks that cutting down to only one packet of blue cheese dressing on his huge lunch salad from the local grocery store is dieting.  Obviously he is blessed with an extremely high metabolism, so for now I guess I'll go the way of my mom and keep on huffing and puffing my way until I become Insanity ready. 

I can just hear her now as I stop for that drink of water.  "I do Insanity with my daughter everyday of course she has to take little breaks and drinks of water."  Then she'll smile that knowing smile.  What better motivation to keep on sweatin before I'm getting the pants beat off me by the oldie.