Exercise Without the Wii

I love the Wii. Unfortunately I have still can not get it hooked up correctly with that stupid converter box we have to have to get the digital signal, which means the Wii hasn't been used all summer.

What have I been doing to exercise? Swimming. I haven't been doing it every day, enough to not gain my lost weight back.

The girls were at the Butler's last night I had to swim by myself, darn it. JOANNA, I tried my best to get a picture of all the bats diving for mosquitoes last night, but they were too darn fast. There were tons of them out last night about dusk.

Exercise #1: Usually I have the girls make a whirlpool and I walk against it. I had to make my own whirlpool and then walk against the current last night, so I got double the work out. I usually do this walking front and then backwards.

Exercise #2: Swimming in place. It's not nearly as hard as you think. I get in the middle of the pool, float on my back and make "snow angels". This keeps you basically in one place and kinds of works like jumping jacks without all the impact.

Exercise #3: Ball Swimming. (Taylor named this one) Curl into a ball floating on your side. Use one arm to turn you in circles. Swap sides and do it again.

Exercise #4: Running. Run in the water picking your knees up high. It is very important to not lean forward, you will slip and go down, not gracefully. Run about 4 laps around the pool, you will feel the pain and be out of breath! For a little arm workout during this one, put your hands down to your side and pull them up out of the water while running, feel the burn. The girls secretly took a picture of me doing this. The picture self destructed.

Exercise #5: Running in place.

Exercise #6: Good old fashioned swimming.

I could go on and on. I have noticed that I am not as sore in the morning after those workouts like I was with the walking and Wii.

Motivation to keep moving in the pool in the Arkansas twilight? Mosquitoes. Stop and they will pick you up and carry you off.

I am going to propose a challenge Dianne and her crew over at Country and Loving It . They have just taken a family membership to the local gym. I want to compare our workout and weight loss to theirs, somehow. This is a surprise to Dianne, cause she's just finding this out as she reads it. It will start when we get back from vacation.

The girls have been walking down and up our drive way everyday they've been home during the week, on their own. I did not force them to!

I was shopping for evening wear for our trip for myself. I had to stop when I found this picture...
UglyPromDress someone seriously let their daughter leave the house dressed like that. OMGosh.