Move That Thing, and That Other Thing!

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I’m decrepit. Seriously, I am.

Actually, I’m amazingly strong and reasonably fit for a woman of my age – which is a combination of the legacy of being an athlete in high school, stubbornness and an insistence on using hand tools, because they’re so much cheaper to buy than power tools, for all gardening functions.
Toned arms are not indicative of overall fitness...at all.

I mean really, there is nothing that matches the full-body workout of using manual tools to dethatch and aerate your lawn when you live in a place with rocky, clay-based soil. To hell with cross-fit or weight lifting – get a dethatching tool, a rake, a loop-hoe, some loppers and a pair of leather gloves. I can thank cheap gardening for my arms, my sore, painful, toned arms.

At one point, I put together a slide show of gardening projects for my employees to explain why I arrived whimpering and limping every Monday.

Window Dressing

You know what’s not in great shape? My back – which is kind of the modern, working-person’s ailment (that and we’re all going to end up with a blood clot in our legs from sitting so much).

My back is killing me, along with my right hip – the other legacy of being a high school athlete; accumulated sports injuries.

See the sway back? So. Stiff.
Being me, I have to do something about it. Really, I have to because, ouch, but also because I have this little nagging inner voice that yells at me for being a lame loser who sits around stiffening up into a miserable board.

So, today I started 100 days of Yoga. I don't know if that's a thing, but everyone is always doing 30, 60 or 100-days of something, so why not stretching?

For 100 days, I’m committing to myself and all of you, that I will get my decrepit ass out of this chair and stretch, for the love of Quokka, because I’m stiffening up as I type and if I don’t get up and move I’m just going to curl up like a shrimp, drop out of this chair and lay there until someone comes to rescue me (no, I do not have Life Alert).

I’m using a YouTube channel, Yoga with Adrienne, a sticky mat and an excess of stubbornness. I will not be defeated by aged back muscles and a weak core – I will be as fit as most people think I am (looks are deceiving people, I look toned but I’m super stiff and my cardiovascular fitness is crap).

Who’s with me?!?!

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