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Yes, I'm fat. But I don't deserve to be. If life were fair, I'd be a body model for some skimpy bathing suit line. I'd be ripped. And you'd be jealous. You see, I'm not new to working out. I don't particular like most forms of exercise, but I do them religiously anyway.
I didn't grow up in an athletic family, but I was on the first girls Little League team in Orem. As pitcher. And I was on the Lakeridge Jr. High softball team. More importantly, when I hung up the mitt and put on ballroom dance heels in high school, I also began a lifelong commitment to aerobic exercise.
Since then I have attended countless aerobic classes, lifted weights endlessly, and run a billion miles. Sam asked me on our first date in college when I was running—sweaty and without makeup—from a weight-lifting class to one of three dance classes. I taught aerobics for a time as an adult. I went into labor with my second daughter while attending a class!
In my “old age” I began taking kenpo karate at 36, just two weeks after giving birth to my fifth baby. I worked my way up to a blue belt before moving from Florida. To celebrate my 40th birthday (using the term “celebrate” loosely) I ran (using the term “ran” even more loosely) a marathon. No, not a mini-marathon. Not a half-marathon. A full-out, heart-attack-inducing, living-failure-causing 26.2 mile mother of all races. And I finished. And I did not die. And I have a medal to prove it.
Since school got out in May, I've been dragging two of my daughters to Zumba and spinning classes every morning. It never ends.
I have been working out about five days a week for over three decades. So why in the world these mamby, pamby yoga-ish workouts have me aching to the bone is beyond me.
Except that maybe they are really efficient at working muscles.
So, a warning. Your heart might be strong, but I'm willing to bet that this workout program is going to show you a thing or two about fitness.
Let me know how you're making out.
Alison Moore Smith is a 61-year-old entrepreneur who graduated from BYU in 1987. She has been (very happily) married to Samuel M. Smith for 40 years. They are parents of six incredible children and grandparents to two astounding grandsons. She is the author of The 7 Success Habits of Homeschoolers.