Helen ~ Heynen

So it was me head to head with the sushi stand tonight at the grocery store...so I said..."Hey, what are you doing tonight? Why don’t we go back to my place"

The rest is history.

Today really was an off day --got a little cardio at the Gym this morning though. I think I am going to try one more spinning class at this one Gym before my trial is over...…and they better not pull that “oh, there’s a bike over here!” over-excited BS card with me again….because I’m so onto these evil spinners now like you don't even know.

But man o man....was I over-stimulated by characters today. I was just taking it easy on the cardio this morning. So I get on this elliptical and there is this lady to my left. She’s about 60 or so. Now, I know you can pedal forward/backward…usually it’s broken up like 5 min forward, 2 back or whatever…Ummmm, no…not for her. She would go forward for about 8 seconds, then backwards for about 5 seconds. I witnessed this nonsense for at least 5 minutes…and that’s a lot of pedal switchin right there!

…Oh, then there was a group of 3 guys in the corner in front of me. “What in the world are these dudes up to?” I was thinking. Ok, they would have one guy lay on the ground face up and someone else would stand above him and straddle him with their feet. Then the guy who was standing would THROW a medicine ball (hard) at the other dude’s stomach. Yes….this was really happening. It was more amusing than I just made it sound. They would just keep throwing this ball at the guy’s stomach and then when he had enough of a workout (?) they would switch. Hmmm..oooookkkaaay.

Oh, then there was the other dude next to those dudes who was creating this peculiar little ab exercise of his own. Wish I had a video of this. I guess he was trying to do a bicycle crunch maybe. ? Except instead of crunching up he was sorta rocking his torso from side to side and was bringing up the leg on the same side as he was rocking towards….which even if he were trying for a bicycle crunch it would be the opposite side…but whatever…what am I, the crunch police? I wish, but, no…I am not. Either way, I was highly amused.

I’ve been seeing everyone with these Body Bug things lately....I’ve never tried one, but the first time I saw one on this girl I was thinking, “man…what a weirdo…this chick has two mp3 players on her arm.” Anyways…everyone is wearing them these days I guess…I saw this guy walk by and I was sort of watching him as he walked away from me. I thought I saw a tattoo on the back of his upper arm, kinda covered by his sleeve. “Hmmm…that dude doesn’t look tough enough to have an upper arm tattoo” I was thinking. Yeah, well turns out I was right…it was a body bug. That’s what I thought. Then when I went into the locker room I asked this lady about hers. I guess you have to hook it up to your computer to see the calories burned…I thought you could read it on the monitor itself, but you can’t. I think they make a watch that you can wear that displays the info. Yeah, the thing is like $300 and it doesn’t even show the calories on the stinking thing -- I'm not all up on all this techno stuff.....I just do the work and hope it counts! As long as my feet get me from point A to point B.....I am a happy girl!