Thursday, April 23, 2009

Drum roll please....

I tried really hard to find a link the the weekend story where I saw the swifter exercise, it was on the Today Show, cheap ways to exercise in todays economhy, not GMA. We did our best to do the exercises as I remember them. Mary Margaret did work up a sweat. I do not use the swifter thingy. I believe in a good old fashion mop, lysol, and elbow grease. What did I find on the store shelves? Swiffer thingys are EXPENSIVE. I bought the $2 Floor Sweeper Redi Wipes, Dollar General Brand. I mean, we are going for cheaper exercise! Dianne told me the Dollar Tree carries floor sweeper, so save another dollar! BTW, did anyone besides Dianne notice that I was spelling Swiffer wrong? I thought all this time it was Swifter, nope its Swiffer. Getting started was job! I had to clean the kitchen, move out the table which led to "Hey, I need to clean behind the fridge" so I did, swept and mopped (with a regular mop) and finally we were ready for the fun to begin! Put the swifter's on the floor and step on (you don't have to size 11 feet like MM's) This child was not forced to do these exercises. I said "Hey, wanna try a new exercise with the swiffer thingys, let me record it, and put you on my blog?" She said "Yep, do I get to use duck tape?" Thats a true Arkansas RedNeck in the making right there!


a little of this


and finally (I could not remember anymore of the exercises)



What we learned: The lunges could possibly cause broken bones. You really look silly. This is cheap exercise, no gym fees, no jazzercize fees, and free floor cleaning labor. You could just walk at the track, no charge, less dangerous. Well, unless you are MM and jump the hurdles.

Bible Verse Challenge: Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. Ephesians 6:1

4 comments:

Beth@playinwiththepaulsens! said...

`that was so cute! the best part was her picking her butt in the beginning! ha! ha! funny stuff! thanks for sharing!

Pat said...

She makes it look so easy!

EmmaP said...

very awesome. Thank you MM for those lovely demonstrations. And thank you kaye-kaye for your wonderful commentary. btw, i *DID* know you were saying Swiffer wrong but I did *NOT* want to embarrass you by saying anything, tee-hee...

Sarah said...

Love it!

(I would quite probably maim/otherwise badly hurt anyone who tried to film me exercising!)