“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Agatha Christie
Jan is always after me
to exercise more. I
told her I walk a lot, (in the grocery store, the mall, and around the house.)
I also told her that I dance in the kitchen any chance I can get.
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| Lois dancing in the Kitchen |
She hasn’t been too impressed by my answer, but I think I
just got her attention.
I recently formed the
Club 80. The club is
composed of me (83), her father (83), and a friend, Dick (88). Dick is my
husband’s golf buddy, a widower, who dines at the Jamieson table every Monday
evening. On one such evening, I realized that we were all moaning about our
lack of exercise. I decided, right there and then, to stop our complaining and
do something positive about it. I
challenged the men to join me in forming the Club 80. Dick was excited and
up-beat about the idea. While we chattered away planning our commitment, my
husband sat in his reclining chair, shaking his head and wondering if we had
lost our minds. We forced him to become a member, and he acquiesced.
We cleverly called, our
motivation to exercise, Club 80. Here is the plan. We agreed to exercise five days
a week. Two days we do TaiChi, one day a week we speed walk in the pool, one
day we walk, and one day we dance. How simple is that?
I think Jan should be
very proud of us. I am.
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