Dangers of Step Aerobics

days 11-16

Creiky, been a busy bee this week, oout and aboot. Missed swimming on wednesday and tried to go on friday when the pool is shut, doh! As a penalty, I had to do Rosemary Conley's - The Best Rosemary Conley Workout In The World ... Ever! If you ever get the chance to see it its well worth it. There is Rosemary, with her buddies all doing the exercises, there is a lady to the left who is super fit and a older lady to the right doing slightly less energetic bouncing around. The lady to the left is a 'Julia' type person from George Orwell's 1984, smiling and over energetic. Rose tries her best to smile all the way through the exercises, the smile drifts from 'cheese' to 'near grimace' and back again, made in a few takes one presumes, its impossible to smile for that long. The rest of the cast remain smiley faced throughout ( over 60 minutes of action packed smiling). It was fun to do the video, projected in my front room, so it felt a little like I was being given orders by a vertically challenged uman' bean. Rose is a kind of mumsy librarian, authoritative saying 'do the box' or 'arms over'. It got to be a little annoying as she's constantly on to the next move, and combining, swing-your-arms-right-round with step-forward and back, the speed that it all changes around makes it very difficult to catch up. after 'two large circles with your arms and step to the left twice' and your shaking hands with the pot plant on the windowsill and the pot plant is shaking hands with your cream carpet, i mean, honestly! How big do they think peoples front rooms are?

But anyway it was good fun, in a embarrassing sort of way, i never actually thought of people actually doing it in there front rooms in front of the telly after Eastenders or the pub or something.

Went a' walking in Derbyshire, did about 10 miles, lovely, lovely.

Because I didn't go swimming this week, I don't know what weight I am. The shape of my hips have changed, I can't rest my arms on the fat bits. My belly has grown a little due to having a few beers and a pizza, argh, I thought it was going to be easy. Just got soo sick of diet coke and mixer, blergh. anyway, if I am back swimming again this week, i think I can work off this weeks over indulgences.

When I was a kid we once had to do Step Aerobics at school, I don't know to this day why they were making kids do step Aerobics, anyway, me and my friend steve were getting a little bored of left up, right up, left down, right down, left up, right up, left down, right down, and decided that we could improve step aerobics by doing it quicker, and quicker, and quicker, until I miss placed my foot on the step and landed with all my weight on my little foot. I broke the bone just before the little toe, ouch. I got taken home and had to wait for my mum to take me to hospital. When we got there this horrible nurse lady gave my foot a massage in a 'does this hurt' kinda way, yes it bloody did! We get the foot x-rayed and sure enough its got a break in it. I get a plaster cast on my leg, and after about a week the cast starts to break around the heel and down the sides, so I go back in to hospital and have a new one put on, and a week later that breaks to. My Dad decided that he could improve greatly on the hospitals pitiful excuse for a cast, and fibre-glasses both legs, (fiberglass being the stuff that the bottom of boats are often made from!) I chose to decorate it in a nice sea blue and algae green, spray paint, it was a master piece. That cast never fell apart!. When we finally went back to have it removed the doctor freaked out 'I have got to get this off before my boss sees', but it wasn't him who put it on....there are somethings you will never quite understand, and that is a mystery, that will stay with me for the rest of my years.