Have You Tried Aerobic Exercise?
One of my friends and I are going to do some camping along with staying at various small hotels and inns. I’ve been involved with doing some aerobic exercise my entire life, either by walking or biking. When I told my husband our plans to go on a hiking trip he laughed. He doesn’t seem to feel either one of us will last two days. I shared this with my friend, who is in shape, but does not consistently do any aerobic exercise; she took this as a challenge.
She began looking into the best aerobic exercise to prepare for our trip. I attempted calling her during our lunch breaks, but could never locate her at her desk because she was out walking. Two nights a week she attended aerobic exercise classes. I went over to her apartment and found three DVD’s on various aerobic exercise programs. The woman is obsessed! We discussed that, when we first planned the trip, we were going to hike for short distances each day to take in the beautiful surroundings, now she was viewing this as an aerobic exercise challenge! She told me that I better start pushing myself more to build up my strength so that I would be able to keep up with her.
I went home and told my husband that I feared our relaxing; get in touch with nature trip was going to transform into a triathlon. He thought situation was quite humorous. At least my friend is improving her health with the aerobic exercise, but I was really not planning on having to run up a hiking path. I selected an aerobic exercise tape for my walkman and started pushing myself more as well. The first few walks I worked harder trying to deal with my frustrations towards my friend and husband, but as my strength improved and my lung capacity developed I found I was actually enjoying this higher level of aerobic exercise. When I went out shopping for clothes for the trip I found that I had dropped a pant size. My clothes at home were fitting looser also. I told my husband that this was my revenge for his challenge, a whole new wardrobe. He doesn’t mind because he thinks I look great.
As the date of our trip gets near we’re getting more and more excited about going on our adventure. Both of us look and feel better since we increased our aerobic exercise. So, if you hear about two women racing around the hiking trials in Glacier National Park, I’m one of them.