Do You Do Daily Exercises?

For the longest time I thought that I did not have time for daily exercises and could just not be bothered.

One late fall day I decided that now as it was too cold for my daily gardening, and that I should replace that time with exercise. I bought an exercise ball that came with a DVD. So for that winter I did my daily exercise with the ball in the morning before I started my work. I liked the program, but it was boring doing the same exercise daily.

Then one day while out shopping I came across a reduced price yoga DVD and bought it. Now I could alternate between the exercise ball and yoga. I really liked that and then it was warm enough again for gardening and I stopped exercising until I could no longer garden. That's when I realized that I had lost some of my strength and found the exercises hard to get going again.

So the next summer and ever since, I garden on the nice days and on the rainy days I do exercises. In the meantime I have added an additional yoga DVD to the mix and alternate between the different DVDs. I am not fanatical about doing the exercises. If I don't feel like it I don't do them and do housework instead. But usually I look forward to doing them. I can see that my flexibility has improved and that I feel good which at my current age of 56 I am quite proud of.

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