Good evening!
After a slight change of plans, my sweetie and I have decided to spend a nice, quiet evening at home. My sweetie has made us a lovely lasagna dinner, my mama’s recipe, and he picked up a couple of happy movies to watch this evening!!
Also, something a little fun, and different! After some thinking about being kids and not having to work at being fit because we were always out playing. I started wondering what we could do, as adults, to re-connect with that old adage of playing, so that we can get fit again!! Some of my FAVORITE things were riding bikes, climbing trees, jumping rope, hopscotch, wall ball, chinese jump rope, monkey bars, swings, swimming and teeter-tottering!! SO, the one thing I thought I would do to try and reconnect with that old self was to purchase old-fashioned beaded jump ropes. One for me and one for my sweetie! I was AMAZED at how easy that was able to find, especially when you realize that my sweetie is about 6′ 8”. Long story short, my sweetie and I are skipping rope a little every day, and I have to tell you – so far, it is REALLY FUN, but waaaaay harder than I remember!! We are playing a game with ourselves that basically is us keeping track of how many continuous skips we can do in one run, and then trying to beat that number the next day!! So far, so good!! I am not at a terribly high number yet, but I am doing better than where I was when I first started!!
Next I would like to see myself be able to ride my bikes for long periods of time, and Jason still needs to get a bike – they are a little spendy when you get one that can accomodate his height/weight! So, that may take us a while!! I also may have to google how to play hopscotch again, I can’t remember off the top of my head exactly how to play it, but I am sure that would be a fun competetive type game to play with Jason, as well as wall-ball!! That might be a little harder since for every one of his steps it takes me two to match it, but I am really enjoying the idea of playing for fitness!!!
WAY TO PLAY!!!
Have a FABULOUS evening! 😉
I loved jump rope, skating, bicycling like C.H.i.P.S with Eric Estrada with my sister Nette. Played kick ball, soft ball and tag. I used to do cartwheels and splits in the yard too. I miss those days.
I LOVE that you say that about Chips because I had the BIGGEST crush on Eric Estrada as a little girl!!! 😉 I have NEVER been able to do cartwheels or the splits, and I highly doubt that those skills will ever come at this point!! 😉
Summer-saults (sp)?, running anywhere I wanted to go, riding my banana seat bike, climbing trees, dodgeball, softball, any sport with a ball, roller skating with real boot skates (not rollerblading). It was so fun being a kid…. Thanks for reminding us Christina! :o)