Re: If you ran the ADA...

"Chris Malcolm" <cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I watched a recent TV
programme in which the reporter just walked through a housing estate
knocking on doors. He wanted to find out how many people had exercise
equipment in their houses or garages that they no longer used. He
found house after house with weights, bikes, treadmills, etc.. I can't
remember how many, but he failed to find a single one where the
equipment was in use. He also found that in quite a few cases the
equipment had only ever been used once, and there were a few cases
where it hadn't ever been used!


I have a treadmill that I hardly ever use -- since I started running &
walking outside -- but I did use it a lot in the 2 years that I had it
before my dog died. Did the reporter also ask them if they changed their
exercise venues?

I should be doing weights -- I have a collection of them, too, collected
during my various rehabs. I tend to slack off rehab-type exercises when
things clear up (though some took over a year) & I'm so tired of doing that
routine that I give it all up (rather than transition to a general
fitness-type routine).
bj
(before anyone asks me "why not walk *with* the dog..." -- I did, but she
was older & ailing, & I needed more than her gentle & stop-&-go outings --
and I preferred to do it indoors with her & tv as company than go off
outside by myself -- maybe I couldn't stand her sad eyes or something! --
but I'd be on the 'mill & toss her tennis balls from the bucket on the table
next to it. It made a nice little "together routine".)


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