exercise

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At 08:26 PM 04-01-06, you wrote:

>Tell us your secret for increasing your exercise. Sue

no secret, sue. i just do more. i was doing water aerobics once a

week, now i am trying for 2 to 3 times. i was only walking the dog

for her 20 minutes once or twice a day (hubby & a friend of

ours were walking her the rest of the time), but last week i started

walking the 3 blocks up and downhill to work and taking the stairs to

the 3rd floor of the hospital where i work as well. i'm planning on

taking the dog out for longer as i can fit that in.

i'm hoping to add some weightlifting eventually, and work on a bosu

(like half of one of those big Swiss exercise balls) and my exercise

ball and maybe the wobble board for core stability in the next few

weeks or months.

i have t'ai-chi tapes i love, too.

none of those sound like a secret, so i am not sure what you mean. i

like exercise. i found that deciding i liked it and letting go of

not liking it about 9 years ago worked fine for me. it's like

physics. i had to do a lot of physics for my medical training as an

ultrasound technologist. i used to be intimidated by it for years,

but about 3 years ago i decided i was going to investigate it and

like it- - and i did. i enjoyed studying it and got a 98% score on

my national board exam in May (had to brag! :-) )

so, depending on what you were asking- - - i find that there are a

kazillion types of exercise out there. i'm going to like some of

them; i'm not going to like others (and my BODY is going to like/not

like other types too). the more types i try (the more i cross-train)

the more i am enjoying. so it's kind of like a research project.

daily, i give myself permission to NOT exercise and refuse to beat

myself up when i don't do it. (what good would that do?) i also give

myself permission to not like it. however i usually choose TO

exercise because it is often, if not usually, fun, refreshing, and i

feel good, if not during, then after.

hope this helps

kcd