成人快手

Usually, when women get to my age, they go one of two ways....say "Bu*ger it" and let nature take it`s course, or try like a demented person to keep fit as possible and stop the dreaded middle aged spread which isn`t so much a spread...which conjures up images (for me at any rate) of things like peanut butter or marmite...as an engulfment that leaves many of us looking like the sister of the Michelin man.
I used to say to folks, hey, I AM in shape..round is a perfectly good shape...then poke me tongue oot at them...
But the older I got the more I wanted to keep fit, instead of worrying what I looked like.
So here I am, forty six and fishing around for the perfect set of exercises that would allow me to keep svelte and energetic....
(aye, I`m no` holding me breath either....)
So, those perfect set of exercises would be something that actually didn`t involve much effort but miraculously melted any stray pounds away whilst at the same time taughtening those muscles which, over the years and through lack of use (anyone ever notice that most women have firm jaws though, eh? :P) have become less than perky....
Instead I`ve tried all sorts of things, because that perfect set exists only in my dreams.
So taking advantage of everyday life, I whizz round the housework like a blue..erm...bottomed fly.....
and ok, it keeps you fit in the way a decent outdoor job would I suppose, but not enough, because when women get to my age the weight stubbornly clings on for dear life as if we`re the last stand before the end of the world....
So then I thought, taking advantage of the stairs I have in me house would work..and so I traipse up and down them pretty much every day til I`m sick of the sight of them, and to be honest I DID find it improved my health a great deal in that I`m no longer puffing and blowing like an auld wifie...got a healthy set of lungs now! *pride*
and I coupled that with leg exercises...you know the kind ladies? Where you lie side on and lift the leg umpteen times, holding for five seconds. Supposed to tighten the inner thighs and yes, it does.
And I have hand weights, different sizes so I have respectably fit and toned arms but I also work cowhides and sheepskins so that doesn`t hurt either.
But you know, it`s all boring as..well...dull as ditchwater as they say....

So in a flash of inspiration...or lunacy, haven`t decided which yet...I bought a Bellydance dvd.
Watched it and thought, "Oh that looks easy enough and fun and a sight more elegant than what I`m doing already".....
And got stuck in.

Oh man, though, I ACHE...:-(
I`ve found out it works a treat on just about every single muscle you own, that co-ordination isn`t as simple as it looks when the professionals do it, and that I am a magpie at heart and covet one of those glittery, silky, shimmering costumes...:-D

I`m sticking with it though. It IS fun after all...but until I`m sure I won`t die of shame, until I`m proficient at it, NOBODY gets to see me practice.....
but tell you this girls....my waist feels tighter, I feel fitter and the ache is that good ache you get when you`ve worked hard but know it`s done you good.
And it makes even the clutziest of us graceful as swans.