Tuesday, November 08, 2005

I'm no Jane Fonda

We are so lucky to own the cottage behind our house. The demolition of the single bathroom in our house would have been quite an issue if we didn't have the cottage to use.

We had considered moving into the cottage until our bathroom is finished, but it turns out that we're lazy, and it seemed like a whole lot of trouble to move all our stuff to the cottage and then move it back to the house in a few weeks.

So we eat, sleep, hang out, and remodel in our house, and we use the bathroom and shower in the cottage. And we still brush our teeth in the
house kitchen.

You might think that sounds complicated enough, but we took it one step further. Now every time either of us goes to the cottage, we have to do pull-ups. I do two, G does four (this is up from one and three, respectively, earlier this week).

This may sound crazy (we've been accused of being weird), but I think we've got something here. It's tough to get to the gym (especially since we don't have memberships), and it's hard to find time to work out as much as we know we should. So this takes the guesswork out of it. When will I do those pull-ups? Everytime I visit the cottage.

So if you're having a hard time fitting in those crunches, squats, lunges, etc., just pick an activity to pair them with, and voila! You'll have constantly sore muscles, too!

(I couldn't figure out why my shoulders were tight this afternoon. Duh!)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a terrific idea -- what do you do the pull-ups on? mm

sycamore said...

We have this really fancy system. We put a metal bar (no idea where it came from or what it's original use was) across the top of the gate that's behind the house. We have installed nails on top of the posts to keep the bar from rolling. Very fancy.