OFFICE WORKOUT

OFFICE WORKOUT

October 2, 2015

Life is surely getting a little different when one advances in age.  We here at the office are currently getting serious about joining the free office dance workout twice a week.  Especially since attendance is checked, as part of the GAD program.  I even encouraged an officemate who felt lazy attending one session that we should do it since the Director stated during one of our one-on-one meetings on the availability of funds that he is planning to buy some equipment for the LADIES (the ones who religiously attend the exercises each week—well, to replace the ones damaged by typhoon Haiyan two years ago).  I doubt if it’s because of us or because his wife so gamely joins us in the sessions.  Hehe.  Maybe for the latter.

Anyway, it’s really fun for me to join these things since I really loved to dance and I hate exercising (actually, since childhood).  I liked hiking with my stepfather and my grandpa when I was little, but I hate jogging and running and biking.  I liked the calisthenics and arnis classes we had in college PE, and even a college friends’ self-defense and martial arts tutorials (which was a good outlet for all the teenage angst back then), but I hate the individual and group games classes. 

Best of all, I enjoy dancing because I get to do it with friends (during neighbourhood fiesta ‘dis-korals’), classmates (when I was a student) and officemates (when I started working) as a group.  Sometimes there are costumes and props, and there are plus points to extra-curricular activities.  But I felt weird using the gym equipment available in the office like the treadmill, the stationary bike and the bench presses.  Plus, I am not athletic so all those tennis and badminton stuff do not work well with me.  Well, maybe I just hate going to the gym.

But Beto’s and the Refit Revolution downloadable videos are fun.  I just hope our interest at the office in these endeavours last longer, because it would be really such a waste.  No matter, I have copied and saved some videos here at home so I can do it here too.  It may not make me slimmer (I know I am still full-bodied), but at least the toxins are coming out and I am able to breathe better and able to relieve some of the stress from work.