In high school one of my least favorite classes was always P.E. (Granted, most of my high school classes are numbered among my least favorite classes, because high school is mostly terrible terrible terrible, but this is off the subject.) I hated changing clothes in a big open locker room. I hated playing sports. I hated getting sweaty. I hated changing back into my school clothes in the big open locker room and sitting through the rest of my classes all sweaty and gross.
But I was thin.
And so I am now looking back at those P.E. classes through post-baby eyes, and ... they're still horrible in my memory. So I've eliminated the changing-clothes-in-front-of-people and sitting-in-other-classes-all-sweaty-and-gross parts, and what is left is just a cool fitness class that might help me lose some post-baby fat!
It's called "Total Body Express." The name says it all. After the first class, my total body totally hurt! I was so wobbly I was afraid I'd fall down the stairs and embarrass myself as badly as I did when I fell off the treadmill in a full gym in college (pure, unadulterated embarrassment, that was). We did squats and crunches and lunges and push ups. We had to balance on huge "body balls" and do more crunches and other exercises I'd never imagined. I worked muscles I'm sure I've never used before.
Many of the other people in the class, I'm sure, did not have a baby four months ago. They look rather like they were babies themselves a scant nineteen years ago, and have spent a majority of those nineteen years taking fitness classes. So I am ever-so-glad that I asked my friend Megan to take the class with me. Together we can giggle over what might otherwise be extremely discouraging and demoralizing. She hasn't done any fitness stuff since school and childbirth either, so we're on about the same level.
Isn't it amazing? I'm actually doing something for me! I leave the children with Rob for almost an hour and go out and exercise! And I enjoy it! Actually, it's still quite tortuous, but I have hope that it will do me good.
Now if only my sore muscles would let me get off the couch...
We celebrated Easter!!
Tanner turned 6!!
Hannah is cute!!!!
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