Exercise
I've heard so many people say that they don't like to do exercise. Part of me understands this because a body at rest wants to stay at rest, but basically, I don't understand because the benefits of exercise far outweigh the discomfort of the time or effort spent in exercising. When I was in school, I hated gym class, but it wasn't because of the exercise. It was because we played games and I was not good at the games. I was a liability to any team I had to be on. I still remember how Peggy Woods yelled at me to have my hands ready to catch the ball when it came to me instead of standing with my hands on my hips. And then in high school, it was also the showers. None of us liked the group showers. We wanted privacy and we were very self conscious about those open room showers.
But exercise is another thing. I always wanted a bike and finally got one sometime after 1974, when I would have been in my early 30s. The bike was old when I got it and I rode it every summer until it had too many problems for me to cope with. One summer I put 500 miles on my bike, just riding around town. I'd try to put at least 6 miles a day on it and once my youngest son rode with me to Clymer and that was the highlight of my riding that summer, --about 25 miles in one day. I have enjoyed walking and always feel so good physically after a good walk. Aquarobics has been very good for me. And now, I'm finding that when I first get up in the mornings, I want to stretch and move and get some early morning exercise. I want to do a work out with the hand weights. It feels so good to move freely and I want to keep it up.
God made our bodies to move and to keep busy. I love the feeling I get from a session of good exercise.
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