Its URL is the fun GetUpAndMove.Me, and its tagline is "Barter with Exercise." Go look at it. At present it's only tied in to Twitter (hashtag #getupandmove), but they're working on Facebook.
I've never been an exercise fiend, but GetUpAndMove has led to my discovering that I like doing a couple of minutes of exercise if I do it to a song. The radio site blip.fm has a ton of great songs (to play for free), so for instance if I agree to do a minute of pushups, I start one of my songs and do it. Examples:
- Soul Sacrifice (Santana at Woodstock)
- Little Deuce Coupe (Beach Boys)
- Ecstatic R&B love song introduced to me long ago by friend Frank Moore: Don't Leave Me This Way - starts modest and builds. Great for jumping jacks
- And my personal anthem: Play That Funky Music, White Boy
Today in the email from a chorus buddy I got this video, and realized this is what makes "GUAM" (as its fans call it) work for me, when so much hasn't: fun.
(I add music, but with or without it, there's the fun of challenging people, and publicly trash-talking your challenger or challengee.)
Here's to Jen, here's to Frank, here's to innovation, and here's to fun. Get up and move!
This reminds me of a music-directed aerobics class I once took where the instructor kept picking faster and faster songs every week till we practically looked like one of those sped-up silent movie screens - but hey, it really gets your heart going, so go for it!
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aka, a fellow exercise-hater. Where's that "high" they talk about? hah!
Oh, mind you, I do enjoy exercise, when someone's helping me do it. I did GREAT for a couple of years when there was a good low-cost personal trainer near me. I moved away then he did.
ReplyDeleteI've experienced the high. But I do not like doing things alone, so riding on an exercise bike is horrible - but I loved getting into real bike riding this past summer. Eager for spring!