okay um
i guess what i guess my
my task i usually ride my bike i have uh a stationary bike and uh a regular bike and
when i can i like to ride my regular bike outside because it's so much nicer the stationary bike is is so um
boring
boring but i have head phones and i plus i have it uh in the living room so i either watch TV or
we have a fish tank so i watch the fish you know whatever i can do to keep myself occupied
if i like to have the TV on because that usually keeps me um more occupied it kind of takes the time away and i don't realize really
that's really the only time i ever watch TV is when i'm on the bike but
and then usually after i'm done riding the bike just to cool myself down i usually take a walk you know and that just kind of gets myself uh gets me you know
to where i'm not quite as tired i guess but it's definitely a task i can't say that i really enjoy it i wish that i did enjoy it more but i do it because i have to not because i want to
you think so
i bought a stationary bike
but i find that if i sit on that seat too long it hurts
yeah yeah
and i haven't figured how to get that soft and i tried even tying a pillow to it
but two years ago i joined well it's not quite two years it's almost two years i joined the Cosmopolitan Lady here in Plano
uh-huh
and i love it i just love it
really
so is it just women that go there
yeah it's totally women
see i think that's what's my biggest problem with going to a place uh a a health club because
i don't feel like having a bunch of other people watch me exercise you know so i have tried to just do stuff at home
and uh i just feel conscious about it i mean i'm not big you know or anything but i still don't like other people watching me you know
i like to be able to sweat have my hair a mess
yeah
uh
feel that okay fine if my bathing suit slips a little bit i don't have to be conscious of
right
of it being a little bit too low and i my bathing suit's just one piece so there's no big deal all the way around but i don't have to be conscious of what i'm doing or how i'm doing it
uh-huh
and it's uh oh it's just i don't know it's a it's a total free relaxation because hey you can do what you want you're a female and
no one is staring at anybody else or worrying about what anything else is doing
that's what
and they've got such fantastic equipment in there
really that's that's great how
oh yeah
and i love the water aerobics i love the water aerobics
do they have a pool or what is
oh yeah they've got a nice one
huh
they have two types of water aerobics they call it aqua exercise i guess is what they call it
i've heard that that's really good for you to do
it pushes you because you're pushing against the water in itself so it is like double strenuous but you're not
uh-huh
being double strenuous on your own body because you're pushing it yourself
uh-huh
so you're doing it yourself but
so you don't really feel like you're really working that hard do you when you're in the water
huh-uh the only thing that i ever felt was
every time i stop and start going again because i end up getting two jobs once in a while i end up having to quit for a while but i get blisters on my toes on the bottom because i really jump a lot
oh wow well that's funny i never would have thought of that
but
well a lot of people wear those little uh terry cloth with rubber soles on the bottom
especially around the pool so they just wear them right into the pool
like water are they water shoes is that
yeah they're just little terry cloth things you wear for house slippers with rubber you know soles so that you know no big deal one way or the other
oh okay okay
okay okay
huh that's really funny
but i never think about it until after you go there for about a week your toes you start getting blisters anyway so no big deal
huh
but it's fun
that's
so how often do find yourself going um on a if you're doing it on a regular basis how often do you go
i try to make it at least three times a week
yeah that's really
for a while i was doing it every day just
really
going uh five days a week
i wish that i could make myself exercise every day but i do force myself to do it at least three times a week which i don't feel like is enough but
uh it's it's at least something you know it it i just force i have to force myself to do it like i said because to me i really don't enjoy it but i know that i have to do it i mean it's just
it's it's not a question of whether i want to you know
well
but
when i was working up at uh The Summit here in Plano i'd leave there
uh-huh
and i'd be at the swimming pool by four o'clock
oh that's
oh actually about four thirty because they start at five to six so i was there by four thirty every night
and the only thing that ever bothered me was my hair getting wet
uh-huh
because no matter what i did or how i did it i invariably got myself wet
uh-huh
but the water only comes up basically to your
anywhere from your waist to your oh chest i'd say
yeah
so i mean it's your choice where you want to go but
did you ever
i enjoyed it higher
well i'm sorry
that's okay
uh did you ever go to Texins at all when you were working for TI
i have a i have a bad back
did you ever try that
so i'm very limited what i do
oh okay
it's like i can walk
but if i walk for more than fifteen minutes it's going to bother me
um
especially when you're on cement or anything that's hard it will bother me it will bother me
then that would yeah i guess then the water aerobics would be probably the best thing for you wouldn't it
well that what pushed me that way though was basically was the fact that when i w ent in there is wasn't for the water aerobics i went in there strictly to strengthen my back muscles
oh
and uh she said hey go for the swimming pool she says you get just as much if you did the aerobics on the floor she says in fact you get more
wow
i said okay because i'm not a swimmer
uh-huh
i like water i'm not scared of it but i couldn't i guess i could swim across the pool but i'm no swimmer per se
yeah
but i found that this worked really well and i came out of there and i saw my stomach going down well
oh
i dropped oh i'd say almost twenty pounds
wow
just by watching what i ate and they fix you up with a diet which worked real good
what if you're already on one i mean yeah i mean when you go in there they wouldn't make you do theirs would they
what a diet
oh no they have nothing to do with that
okay
see i joined uh when this
one down here opened up i joined as a VIP and the VIP gives you uh
oh gives you a diet a computerized diet and they go over all your health and all your history and they show you how everything to do and how to do it and the whole nine yards
so it became part of the package so i went through it
but they have packages where they just offer the exercise program is that what you're saying
it worked out well
oh yeah you can just go in there and join just like anywhere else too
i see okay
i just went and took the because they were offering it as an opening benefit so it was
it's less than what you pay now for going in there after all this time
um
after all this time so it's like when i got laid off i went back in there and start all over again because it had been a while since i'd done it
um
so i get all the same treatment again so it's kind of nice
wow that's
like i said i like it i like the heat i like the
i jump out of the swimming pool and i go into the hot tub
oh
and i love it
yeah that would be really nice
because i have never i have never let me reword that i think i have gone home maybe once or twice slightly sore
but that's because of my physical condition and nothing to do what they did
uh-huh
that's i knew i was pushing too far
uh-huh
but usually when i go into the hot tub before i go swimming or when i come out i'm totally relaxed when i go home it's no big deal
so you really do enjoy your exercise then since your
it's fun it's fun
uh i've gotten on the bike and they've got uh the stepping bike where you step
uh-huh
and i've enjoyed that watching how well i can
can walk up and down stairs
that's you know i wanted
but most of the others to me are very dull
i wanted to get one of those steppers when i bought the bike but i got talked into the bike instead and
i don't know
i really wanted a stepper i'm considering maybe even buying one of those too but i'm not sure if i'll get benefit out of both of them i mean i don't know if it would really do any good having both of them
which one do you feel is better since you use them both
um
i get bored very easily
uh the one nice thing about the bicycle
is you just sit like you said you can sit and do it and watch the TV and not even really be conscious of what you are doing
uh-huh
with the stepper you are conscious of what you are doing because you're basically watching each step as it gets harder and down
huh
so you have a little you know little you can program the one at Cosmopolitan Lady so
uh-huh
to what your gear is
uh i it would depend upon which one you want i think now that i've had the bicycle
i would go to the stepper
but if i were you i would go apply to either a health club or one of the others
and use it for a while because you can buy a month's membership and see what you feel is best for you
oh really
um
because it all depends you know for everyone their own what they want to do
because i jump on the bike here at home
mine has its see the handle bars go up and down so i can sit there and read and listen to music like what you said and it has no effect on me
uh-hum
so i mean it's
boring
uh-huh
