Usually when first exposed to all the heavy weights and buff bodies at a fitness center, one ends up heading home feeling out of shape and unattractive. During my first two weeks attending a fitness center, however, I have come home feeling incredibly short.<\/p>\n
I’ve gotten a good routine started at the gym. First, my husband and I spend some time on the treadmills. These nifty machines have their own individual media centers where you can watch television, listen to music, or pop in a DVD — this is courtesy of our friend Willis, but that is another story. I had noticed that I couldn’t see the television very well because the ceiling lights were being reflected back at me. Yesterday, I asked Steven if he was having the same problem.<\/p>\n
“No, I only see the lights at the very top of the screen,” he replied, “I can see it fine.”<\/p>\n
Ohh, so it’s just me, then. I am way down here<\/sub> while the screen is way up there<\/sup>. Maybe I should ask Willis to incorporate a tilt feature into those screens.<\/p>\n After treadmilling through the reflections, we go over to all the weight machines. These are the kinds of machines that Soloflex\u00ae claims to do all at once plus be a clothes hanger. On these weight machines there are a plethora of settings for height differences. You would think it would be hard to figure out what would be the best selection, but not for me. On every machine I have to use the settings for the smallest and shortest the machine can go — and even then some of them are still a bit large.<\/p>\n “You are too short,” the machine thinks at me.<\/p>\n I am only one inch shorter than the average woman! Do the fitness center machine moguls think that only men and Amazon women use their machines? Why must my 5′ 3″* frame be continually insulted?<\/p>\n When I am queen, I shall have custom fitness machines made to fit my height. They will make me feel very tall and I will be the happier for it. Better yet, my Shorty Machines\u2122? will be in my own home so they will also double as clothes hangers.<\/p>\n _____ Usually when first exposed to all the heavy weights and buff bodies at a fitness center, one ends up heading home feeling out of shape and unattractive. During my first two weeks attending a fitness center, however, I have come home feeling incredibly short. I’ve gotten a good routine started at the gym. First, my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crunchythoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n*on a good day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"