There is snow on the ground out the door.
The guy on the TV news this morning said we have been above average this year with regard to snow fall. I don’t know if he was looking at inches or centimeters? It sure doesn’t seem like we have had over a foot of snow fall this year. A little bit here. A little bit there. It adds up. What we have not had is a “big snow”. The one that doesn’t just talk about clearing the grocery store out of milk and bread and eggs. The big one will do those things. We have not had one this year. It is Monday and temps by the end of the week are supposed to be in the mid-60s. We’ll take that!
The warm weather will mean more activity. I feel somewhat like a bear in hibernation. I am used to being out more and exercise more in the out of doors.
In about a half an hour I am going to go downstairs and stay in the house to get my exercise in…my workout. I am blessed to have the equipment at hand and foot to use to promote my physical well-being. Know also that my fibit flex will depends on wide movement to record a step. I can ride 5 miles on an exercise bike and register 1.7 miles on my fitbit. That is frustrating…but at least I understand what I am up against and why.
I will climb onto an elliptical machine go anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes on it. RIght now I feel like a 20 minute climb. My record is 75 minutes. I was very sore the next day. I did feel good on day putting in a 20 minute with the resistance level set at 20. I figured it went to 50 or something. I usually set it at 14. I was pleased to know that one day that the highest setting is indeed 20 and I tackled it for 20 minutes. I was a beast that day. My legs start to scream every time I think about cranking it up that high again.
I also get on an exercise bike. There is a treadmill that I rarely frequent. There is a bench press with free-weights and another stand alone bench to do other lifts with. We have many sizes of dumbbells and I think sometimes that I amt he dumbbell trying to left that much weight.
Thirty-some years ago I lifted weights with my friends at school and had a grand time of it. I will never bench press 260 lbs again. I will never squat 450 pounds. I will never dead lift how ever much I did of that either. I don’t care to. I am glad I did it when I did. My main goal when lifting now is to not drop anything on my head. I work out alone and I am extra careful with the bench press. I do not take chances. Why should I? There is no one else down there to impress.
I’ll be glad when the snow is gone and the warm weather is here again. Each time I think about how I am tires of snow, I count my blessings and remember the winter my friends in New Hampshire had last year. It started snowing on them in November and they didn’t see the ground again until some time in April. There is a reason why they love to show off their flowers up there when they are in bloom. They won’t be in bloom for long! They will be covered with frost soon after the 4th of July.
So now I am going to head downstairs, loosen up my aching joints and move my limbs about as I try to continue to make progress as long as I am vertical.
That and I will….speak the rights!
Danny Johnson