Three days in a row without the daily writing prompt being pulled into the daily writing prompt reply post. Come on, folks. Can we fix this bug please?

What is your favorite form of physical exercise?

I answer this question with a question: Is favorite the proper word to use to describe exercise? Shouldn’t we say something more like, “what is your least hated and awful and depressing and intolerable form or physical exercise?” Something more like that?

I woke up with a ton of back pain eight days ago and decided to help the healing process by not doing my daily exercise for a week. I marked Monday October 30th as the day I would start back up again. Then on the 29th we get this question? I sense a conspiracy here. They’re guilting me into exercising again, aren’t they. Jerks.

Okay, so my actual answer to the question is probably going for walks outside. That would be the “favorite” form of physical exercise. Walking outside in the woods, maybe… or at a Disney World theme park… just me and the Mrs, spending a little time together.

The most common, and therefore probably most effective and least intolerably awful form of exercise I’ve practiced since having the gastric bypass surgery is the silly little faux jogging (pronounced “yogging” with a soft “j” a la Anchorman). I go down into the cellar first thing in the morning and just run in place for half an hour or so. My heart rate goes up and I work up a little sweat and I feel like I am starting the day off right. I don’t know if it’s having any great effect on me physically, but I probably have a couple of super strong ankles now. I just have to get back to it tomorrow.

I also need to something about my very flabby looking arms. The post-gastric bypass surgery loose skin issue is definitely a thing for me. I need to do more exercise to deal with it in places that folks can see it. My arms are the main point. Also, I used to be able to fling heavy things around like nothing, but after losing all the weight I am noticeably weaker than I used to be. I have weights in the cellar that I can use to work on that issue but I don’t, even though I need to. The doctor recommended it and for some reason I can’t figure out how to work it into my daily routine. I will try to do something about it when I start yogging again tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow… back on the wagon tomorrow. Until then…