Recommended Reading: Cranky Fitness

OK, I’ll admit it. I’ve finally reached a place where I enjoy working out. Feel better about my bod post-workout. Even look forward to the challenge of pushing myself at the gym, as ludicrous as that sounds. But kittens, it took almost TEN YEARS for me to get here, and I still have my days.

If you have yours, too, Cranky Fitness can help you slog through them. Here’s an excerpt from a recent post:

I hate Serious. So, in an attempt not to get bored, frustrated, and hateful, I’ve started injecting Silly into my workouts, and it’s working.

F’rinstance, yesterday I had to do a full two minutes of those dadratted side gallop widgets between sets of something equally torturous. It’s dull to gallop ten feet with a weight ball in your hands, drop it, gallop ten feet the other way, gallop back, pick up the ball….you get the idea.

However! It’s fun to imitate a sailor doing the hornpipe when you’re going one way and a gibbon when you’re going the other. It’s even more fun when your trainer starts calling out suggestions as to what you can do: “Chimpanzee!” “Hee-Haw Cast Member!” “Gorilla With A Hangover!” It works your brain and your Silly Muscle as well as your body.

Less cranky and more HILARIOUS, no? Even if you’re not seeking a way to make your workouts less annoying/painful/awful, Cranky Fitness is well worth a look-see. Just try to get through an entire post without snort-laughing. JUST TRY.

Thanks to The Budget Babe for pointing me to this marvelous blog.