Hello, devoted readers (a.k.a. Mom), friends and complete strangers who stumbled across my blog. How is everyone today? Feeling good? Eating right, getting plenty of sleep, lots of exercise? The women here apparently are. Well the women here minus one, that is - me.
I don't know what it is about this town that I moved to but the women here are ridiculously fit. Every day as I drop my son off at preschool I am astounded by the number of women sporting their Lycra and spandex, heading off for a few volleys in their club-approved tennis skorts or out for a run in their Under Armour compression gear.
And they look like they actually put these cute clothes to use, too, unlike some women who throw on a pair of yoga pants for the comfort factor even though the most activity their bodies have seen or will see that day is the brief stretch they took as they reluctantly crawled out of bed. In my defense, I mean their, defense, they...ok, we have good intentions. We struggle into our stretched out stretch pants with the full intent of getting in some sort of exercise that day. We really do. But between the drop offs and pick ups and grocery getting and laundry doing and mess hall duty, etc we somehow never seem to squeeze it in. Or at least that is what we tell ourselves....and our husbands. (but not the too-fit Stepford wife at the preschool. I will happily let her think I jogged 5 miles before the kiddos got up and that I am heading straight to the gym as soon as I get out of the carpool line, even though I am really heading to Starbucks.)
When did being fit become so en vogue anyway? It seems to me that back in the 80s people were pretty serious about their Jazzercise and Jane Fonda workout tapes, but then in the coffee-house fueled 90s being fit seemed to be incidental more than intentional. With the changing of the Millennium people started taking physical fitness more seriously, I guess. Maybe when Y2K didn't bring about mass anarchy and chaos as had been predicted people decided they had something to live for after all. Or maybe it was the advancement of technology that sparked the renewed interest in getting fit. Before the eruption of social media sites like Facebook one only had to worry about looking good every 10 years or so at their high school reunions. Now we have people tagging us in pictures at every possibly moment and broadcasting it for the world to see. That is a lot of motivation to keep fit. (And yet I have gained 10 pounds in the last year. Hmm....).
In any case, whatever the reason, whatever the popular workout or gear of the moment, it is true that exercise is good for you. I get that that. And I really am going to put my yoga pants to work soon. I finally found my own personal motivation. Nothing else fits.
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