Go, Go Gadget Treadmill

Oct 14, 2011

I have a new guilty pleasure.

Watching 'Friday Night Lights' at 6:00 in the morning.

While on the treadmill.

Okay - the treadmill is in no way a pleasure, but I have found it goes so much faster if my mind is occupied by a good TV show or movie.  At the first of the year, I was watching episodes of "Mad Men" while logging my treadmill time. 

I was glad to see that Netflix has expanded their repetoire of good TV shows - to keep me entertained as I sweat in the morning. 

My treadmill is pretty elderly - - it was given to me by my mom and is probably close to 20 years old by now.  It's loud, too.  So, I have to turn the TV up pretty loudly - and even then, I have found that I need to turn on the closed-captioning in order to make sure I hear whispered conversations, etc. 

But, I have to credit the treadmill with my renewed weight loss.  I was getting my activity in before the stall - - but, once that stall broke, I was even more committed - and the treadmill is the way to go, for me.  I can track my speed and distance, as well as my heartrate...and it scares the canines.  Well, it scares two of the three pups.  The third one, my special child, will still occasionally attempt to hop aboard and is absolutely shell shocked when he flies off the back of it!

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