do you are you on a regular regular exercise program right now
yes and i hate it how about you
oh well i'm kind of off and on
off and on well i guess i've been kind of off and on i've um
right now i'm kind of off
had some health problems that have led me to uh stay more on than off
okay what type of exercise do you do
uh i do walking on the treadmill and then i do low impact aerobics
okay i guess you don't enjoy that very much
not not really
you find that uh to be boring
yeah yeah and time consuming i mean it's
it's not just the exercise that's boring and time consuming it's uh you know afterwards you know then you have to take a shower and get cleaned up you know
yeah
well i'm trying to get back in shape for softball this spring
i know you go through this this is something you go through like every year
but i
yeah i haven't decided whether you're whether i wanna play yet or not i just bought myself a solo flex machine i don't know if you've seen those advertised on TV
hum-um
it's one of those uh universal type machines exercise machine but i haven't really sat down and used it much yet so it's collecting dust right now
yeah a lot of things do that i have a negative i had an exercise bike i used to have one and finally got rid of it because i never used it but i do use my treadmill
i used to jog somewhat
uh-huh well that's good yeah my parents have a treadmill it's when i go visit them uh i'll get on that thing every now and then
yeah it's nice because when the weather's bad you can't you don't have any excuse
um-hum no i just got the bicycle out today and it was real nice outside had to get out to do something
yeah i can't ride a bike so
i been sitting in here uh in the house all weekend with a cold so i thought i'd better uh better get outside and do something and not waste the day
oh
yeah it's too nice been too nice of a weekend
but uh yeah i need to start jogging again i've always found that to be uh uh really one of the best forms of exercise but it's terribly boring and so i really don't ever keep a a program up consistently
uh
you had any injuries from jogging
no i never have well i don't jog enough i think to develop any injuries i usually only go about a mile or two
i guess what worries me about jogging is that i hear that it's very hard on your body and and that you know
you can end up getting hurt worse
yeah it's it's tough on the joints if you jog on concrete or on asphalt supposed to be much better if you find uh grass or or uh dirt to jog on
um-hum
yeah that's not quite so so easy yeah yeah
have to have the right type of uh shoes too that's very important
i found that true especially for walking on toes or fronts
but
yeah i don't have to buy jogging shoes all too often mine don't get very much use
well i guess mine breakdown about they say about every six months
uh-huh
so
ah i usually enjoy the exercise i do but uh like i said i'm just not very consistent about maintaining a a program
so i'll i'll bicycle i get into that for for a little while and maybe go out and uh on a consistent basis every couple a days and ride a bike for awhile but then i'll get tired of doing that and maybe start jogging again and go out three or four nights a week
but uh that gets old too in a very short order i'm i'm hoping that this uh solo flex will uh
yeah
uh change things a little bit i really need to get on a regular type of program and use that thing on a consistent basis
yeah well don't let it collect dust you
least exercise while dusting it off
yeah
well
so maybe if i can get interested in playing softball again this spring i can uh start some type of uh regular program
yeah that that'll be good
i've always found that that when you write things down and set goals it's a lot easier to keep uh keep something going
um-hum
uh when i was in high school we had a choice of uh taking uh physical education courses on exercise and uh one of those involved a six week session on a universal machine
lifting weights and uh working out like that
oh
and that was very helpful and we kept charts of our progress and uh consistently uh increased the amount of resistance so you could see how much you improved over the weeks
um-hum
i found that to be uh very helpful
so are you gonna do that
uh i need to i haven't started yet but it's a thought
well that sounds like something good to do then
sounds like something i should do
yeah
nice way to start off the spring
uh-huh
get back in shape
how often do you uh uh go out each week on your walking
well i do i switch every other day one day i walk and one day i do the aerobics
okay how far about how far do you go walking
well i'm trying build up my tolerance now i just surgery um less than two months ago and right now i'm just a little over about a mile and a half but i try try to workup to three miles
okay
yeah that's good well they say that walking is just as good if not better than jogging
yeah it takes it's just that it takes longer to get the same effect yeah but
it
sure well if you keep up a a consistent pace just to keep the heart rate going uh
my walkman broke so i'm upset now i just have to turn the stereo up real loud
yeah
yeah
but it's a lot less stressful on the joints than jogging is
yeah it is and it this has an you know my treadmill has an incline and you know you can get a really good workout on it
um-hum do you go to an aerobics class or do you watch on TV
no i i just do it on TV i have a cassette
okay which uh shows do you watch on TV
um it's just a it's a tape i use tapes
oh okay okay like a Kathy Smith workout or Jane Fonda
Richard or Richard Simmons Sweating to the Oldies
okay
right i will every every now and then i'll watch uh ESPN i i get cable on TV and they have uh a couple of shows called Basic Training and um what is the other o ne called
uh-huh
there was one guy i used to watch on ESPN i don't know if he's still on it anymore or not i don't i don't know if i get ESPN or not
uh-huh
but um well yeah i used to watch one watch one on the air but that was back
Bodies In Motion that's that's the name of the one i was thinking of
that was yeah
with Gil Janklowicz
yeah yeah i watched that cause he was cute
yeah well he's he's he he he's not bad and his assistants usually aren't either
but uh
they're always in in in Hawaii someplace on on the on the beach
yeah yeah but then that was back when um you know the high impact and
yeah well they they do low impact stuff now they're on everyday
do they are they yeah okay they're so they're still he's still doing it then huh oh i'll have to tune in
yeah every morning
it's on ESPN uh at what time i can't remember what time
it's uh
well i can't remember offhand what time
i'll have to check it check check it back up then but the thing is is everybody always looks so good on there show least on some of the other ones not everybody has a picture perfect body
they have that show on
yeah every now and then
um-hum
well i found that they they have just a much better program than the other shows that are on TV
i haven't watched any other ones on TV um just on some of the tapes so
they're on weekdays at eleven o'clock everyday
Monday through Friday
i'll have to okay thanks
case you're interested in that
i actually taped a few of the sessions that they had on there but uh i haven't done so much as uh watch the tape that i made
now that's a thought
well that's a thought i hadn't thought about doing that
so i'm kind of bad about that myself
well they're gonna beep us pretty soon
okay well i sure enjoyed talking to you about uh exercise and fitness
uh-huh nice talking to you okay thanks talk to you later bye
so all right good night bye
