Saturday, October 04, 2014

Working Things Out

The other day I took a wrong turn on the internet and wound up on a fitness video website. I admit that I try deliberately not to keep up with the current trends in fitness, but even so I was a little astonished. There were exercise videos to make one's rear larger. I know I'm a little fuzzy on these concepts, but I had the general impression that the goal of exercise was to make everything exercisable smaller, but apparently not any more.

What I really wonder is how one determines whether one is at the optimum level of callipygous achievement. With whom does one have this conversation? I mean, I guess I would be comfortable talking about it with DOB, but his opinion would be strongly prejudiced (albeit not prejudicial).

Then of course, there are lots of exercises to lift the rear, which also mystifies me. What is wrong with its current location? Where would one sit if it was elsewhere?

Also, it turns out there are special exercises to do to get "tank top arms." I always thought "tank top arms" were "arms that were too warm in sleeves," but apparently that is not sufficient.

Anyway, the rest of the videos were all done with incomprehensible initials and references. Nobody organizes them the way I would. If I were doing it, workouts would have titles like this:

"Routine to keep you from smashing furniture in February."
"Exercises to get that little tweak out of your shoulder thanks to spending way too much time with a mouse."
"This may make you stop feeling so blah, and if it doesn't, you can totally have a piece of cake and see if that works instead."

4 comments:

Catie said...

"What I really wonder is how one determines whether one is at the optimum level of callipygous achievement."

"I always thought "tank top arms" were "arms that were too warm in sleeves," but apparently that is not sufficient."

Laughed out loud!

Dawn said...

Oh Queen. This entire post is an absolute riot! Thank you for my morning belly laugh!

Wendy said...

I'm totally going with your workout videos!

Diary of an Autodidact said...

That is hilarious. Whatever happened to the good old days when all you had to choose from was musical genre? I mean, was one more of a "Jazzercise" person, or the sort who preferred "Sweating to the Oldies"?