A Bit Of A Stretch!

This morning during breakfast, Tony and I discussed my walking program. He did not like me taking off by myself, for an hour, because it made him worry about my safety. In a way, I was relieved to hear this, because it is a little scary to me. I don’t need the surprise snakes, the deer running into me and lizards startling me. Walking is for relieving stress—not causing it!

Tony asked me to walk inside the trailer, using my Leslie Sansone ‘Walk Away the Pounds’ DVDs until we have our first frost out here. He said it would be much safer for me, and less stressful for him. I love my Leslie Sansone's walking tapes, so I agreed to do it.

When Tony went back to his office, I found my Leslie Sansone three mile advanced walk DVD and shoved it into the DVD player. While it was loading, I grabbed my two, two pound hand weights, and the purple stretchie, and placed them on the breakfast bar.

I decided to cheat a little. In the three mile walk, there are no weights used—just the stretchie. I wanted a better workout, so I used the weights until it was time to work out with the stretchie. When she told me to get my stretchie, I put down my purple weights and grabbed the purple stretchie. I was ready to use the stretchie, and be done with the weights!

Leslie said something like,“To start we are going to extend our arms out in front of us,” I put my arms out in front of me as she did—leaving about a foot of stretchie between my hands. “Okay, now we are going to slowly pull our arms all of the way back...” As she and her friends began pulling back—so did I—I could feel my muscles stretching. Then there was a loud popping noise—causing the hair, on the back of my neck—to stand up! I screamed! Then I realized that my old stretchie had separated!

Tony came rushing into ‘the great room!’ “Nance, are you okay!”

“Yes, my stretchie just broke! What can I do? I’m missing my workout!” Tony grabbed the two purple pieces from my hands, and then he quickly tied some kind of knot! Then he handed it back to me, I thanked him, and then continued my workout.

After I had completed my three mile advanced walk, Tony came back into the room. “Nance, you nearly caused me to have a heart attack, when I heard that pop and you screamed! I don’t know about you, but your walking program is causing way too much stress on us.” Then he laughed. “We could get you a treadmill at Wal Mart today? I’ll buy it.”

“No,” I said. “Treadmills scare me, and they are too expensive. Shoot, with my luck, I would probably fall down, and be strangled to death, by my stopwatch’s lanyard. I just need a new stretchie, that’s all.”

Today, Tony bought me a three-pack of latex stretch bands! I love their colors—lavendar, yellow and turquoise I haven’t decided which one to use for tomorrow’s three mile workout, but I am not going to let it stress me out, because I am already stressed out—because I am not sure if I can do the workout tomorrow because—my muscles are killing me!”

P.S. I can’t wait to tell Kinky!