Geez, does anybody else feel yucky right now?  First all the eating from Thanksgiving through New Years.  Now that all the decorations are put away my house looks so empty and I sometimes feel trapped inside of it with nothing to do.  I have some great workout dvds but what I really want is a treadmill.

I was a fintess finatic in the nineties.  I spent hours at the gym and I started and finished every workout with a vigorous run on the stairmaster.  Remember what a beautiful piece of equipment that was when it first came out?  I thought the treadmill was boring and only used it when the lines for the stairc climbers were too long.

I have a basic stair climber in my basement but the excitement is gone from it.  I do kind of enjoy the elliptical when I go to the gym.  But nothing gets my heart pumping and my joy pipes bursting like putting on my mp3 player and pounding it out on the treadmill.  I have never considered buying one, though, because our budget has tightened over the last couple of years, as has that of just about everybody.

But on the other hand, exercise is really important and I am not getting much of it.  If the treadmill is what motivates me to exercise than maybe it moves from a “want” to a “need”.  I thought about this today as I was thinking about a business associate of mine who does most of the home inspections for my home buyers.  Literally one week he was working strong and the next week he retired.  We learned that he had recently been diagnosed with mesothelioma and it had quickly deteriorated his ability to work.

It is never too early to take care of yourself but as we advance in years I think it’s crucial to keep the bad stuff at bay and make us most able to fight off the bugs that do get us.

I won’t make any hasty decisions about that treadmill but I will reorganize my thoughts and consider it more carefully if my Yoga Booty Ballet and Turbo Jam workouts fail to motivate me to exercise!