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Chasing Indigo running after a ball, is a great fitness workout.
During the after Christmas sales I wondered around in department and sporting goods stores looking at home gym equipment from treadmills to Wii and trying to understand words I am not even familiar with, never having had children of my own when computerised game technology began, terms like video cards and consoles left me quite confused  

My home gym equipment is simple and portable:-

A skipping rope

Resistance exercise equipment, Two stretch bands and a  Gym stick

A blow up, balance ball

One set of high quality, adjustable weight dumbbells

One set of wrist weights and one set of ankle weights

A pedometer.

One set of steps (caravan steps do very nicely), I see no point in buying steps just to exercise.

A chair, ditto, to the steps, I  ‘find any available chair’.

10BX  card detailing a range of 10 Basic exercises, to be done, at varied intensity depending on ability. lol, I have used 10BX exercises since I was thirteen, lol, my little tattered 10BX exercise card could be 50 years old.

Sports clothing, A swimsuit, Gym pants, gym top, cushioned soled sports socks,  and a sports bra. My Brook Addiction Control, Running Shoes.

Water bottle and a back pack water bladder for use on long walks

A thin palates mat, this doubles when we travel as a pad between the window and the roof of the caravan.  When you travel for months out of every year, everything needs to be compact or do several duties.

I have a DVD and a hand held chart of dumb bell exercises for osteoporosis.

I do have an iPod with the week one of the Couch to 5 Kilometre, intervals of walking and running for thirty minutes, loaded into it. That is about as high Tec as I go with my home gym travel equipment. I rarely use it these days, I get the idea, you run briefly, then you walk and recover, I do not need anyone telling me to do it, :-). I will throw a ball for Indigo and run with her, that works just as well and is more, family fun.

I have packed exercise DVD’s but I simply do not use them, I think I like the tranquillity of not having anyone barking orders at me while I work out. In fact the closer to nature and peace, I have when I exercise the happier I am. J

A flowing stream to swim up or a mountain trail, I think would draw more effort from me without my even feeling it, that any modern fitness, electronic, computerized, wiz bang, wii tec  game J. Maybe one day my grandchildren or a more knowledgeable about ‘new stuff’, friend will convert me.

 
 


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