Who Are You?
10 May 2010 Leave a Comment
in GRAVITY Experiment Tags: BOSU, Cool Water, Google, gravity, The Who, Total Gym, whale, Who Are You?
GRAVITY Experiment Day #29
Today’s weight: 148.0 (I’m only human)
Pounds lost / pounds to go: 2.5 / 12.5
Exercise: GRAVITY training for 30 min on the Total Gym – focused on abs and upper body today using the scrunch board, dip bars, and the glide board as a movable surface for my tootsies while doing planks with my hands on a BOSU
I have a horrible memory. The worst is remembering movie lines and song lyrics. My friends and family have lots of material to work with when it comes to “laughing with me”;-)
One of my favorite mix-ups has been the CSI theme song Who Are You? by The Who. Instead of the correct lyrics, “Who are you? Who,who…who,who?” I have been singing boldly, “Cool water. Oo,oo…oo,oo.” After watching this show for years, my husband stopped me and asked what I was saying. After giving my rendition, he started chuckling (and of course corrected me).
I laughed it off but deep down I felt pretty foolish. I swear that there was a commercial when I was growing up advertising Cool Water cologne that used the same theme song and replaced the lyrics with the product name. I remember the commercial clearly – there was a whale in the ocean and they played the commercial jingle as they showed the whale’s tail coming out of the water.
At least I think there was?! Every Google search I’ve tried to validate my childhood memory has come up empty. Doggone it, I will be vindicated one of these days!
But aren’t we all like that in some way. None of us wants to feel silly or humiliated. It’s human nature. We don’t want to be laughed at or made to feel stupid. We play it safe and stick to the things we know we will succeed at.
Once we learn it’s okay to flub up, take risks, make mistakes, and laugh at ourselves – that’s when the fun begins! When every one else asks who are you – it’s okay to be different.
My Three Moldable Lumps
03 May 2010 Leave a Comment
in GRAVITY Experiment Tags: athletic, BOSU, cardio, gravity, Lowe's, lumps, parenting, squats, Total Gym, WaterRower
GRAVITY Experiment Day #21
Today’s weight: 146.5 (ate great yesterday so it had to be revenge of the stuffed crust pizza)
Pounds lost / pounds to go: 4.0 / 11.0
Exercise: 30 minutes GRAVITY training with continued “heart rate bumps” on recumbent bike, Pro II (arm & leg bike), and WaterRower; felt great at the end of my workout on the Total Gym so I did Get-Delt-With-It, Roman lifts, plank on the BOSU, mountain climbers, some type of push up I have no clue what its name is and about 5 min on my abs (30 each of reverse crunches, heels to heaven, and alternating oblique crunches)
Okay, gut check. I’m 3 weeks into this experiment and I’ve lost 4 pounds. I’ve done 18 workouts alternating between GRAVITY training on the Total Gym and cardio. I’m feeling awesome about the workouts and really look forward to the endorphin buzz I get. Food intake is probably my weak point but I’m definitely making smarter choices. I have a love-hate relationship with food so I’m not going to get too obsessive about it – this needs to be something I can maintain after the experiment is over.
During church today, it was reiterated that parents have the single most influence on their children – more so than media, other adults, their friends, etc. Before I started this experiment, I voiced to my husband how I regretted the fact that my children never saw the “athletic” side of me. I was super active and sportsy when I was younger but my own kids have never witnessed this.
I have made oodles of mistakes parenting. I remember being horrified when I dropped my first child on the bathroom floor at Lowe’s when she was 3 months old. I know, awful. I thought she was strapped into her carrier and she just slid right out as I lifted it up. I was absolutely beside myself and crying more than her as we rushed to the doctor’s office. That now 3rd grader reads at a 12th grade level – she’d probably be at a college reading level if it weren’t for me;-)
But after you learn to hold, feed, burp, and change diapers, there is this moldable little lump that is looking to you as an example for behavior – scary. This experiment has changed my kids’ behavior in a very short amount of time. The two youngest munchkins wanted to go into the clinic today with Daddy because they wanted to ”workout.” By the time I got there, the 7-year-old said she’d been doing squats on the Total Gym for ”at least 30 minutes.” The youngest – well his big thing is to make faces and grunt when he does his lat pullups. Wonder where he learned that?
The oldest isn’t quite there yet. When we go to the clinic as a family, she opts for reading as opposed to sweating. I do think there is a point your kids pass where shaping their behavior becomes harder and harder. I’m not giving up but I know that I am going to have to be diligent and creative with her.
Maybe a reading stand on the equipment will do the trick?
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