Welcome To The Chamber Of Horrors!!

Hi blog lovers,

What a Glorious morning it has been. Both me and Happy neighbour are looking forward to trying out nagging sisters new get fit gadget. Happy neighbours husband, however, made us think that maybe its not going to be as easy as we think, on account of him being in Occupational Therapy and having to work out on one of these machines. He said he started off for five minutes only building up to 15 minutes (which is what nagging sister wants us to do when we arrive) after a good few weeks!

We arrived at nagging sisters house, Vic.2 answered the door with 'nagging sister is just finishing her 20 minutes stint on the new gadget'. She said she had already done her 15 minutes, and was still 'glowing' from her time with the 'beast'. NO!, Not nagging sister, (he he he), the cross trainer. Vic.2 says its notthing like her machine, she has since discovered that hers is in fact an 'Air Glider', but nagging sisters is the real McCoy!

This new fang dangled machine calculates how many calories you should burn up while working out on it. You put your age, in how long you will use it for and it makes a suggestion of how many calories you should burn up. Nagging sister, (Yawn) reached her 'burn up calories' mark, Vic.2 said she was about ten off her suggested target. Just me and Happy neighbour to go then.

I thought I would go first, so Happy Neighbour can see the flattering pictures of herself I posted in the previous blog. 'Well this seems ok', I said as I just mooch about on it, but then nagging sister comes over, programmes the machine and orders me to 'move the peddles.' Ok, its going well, I can do this, its straining slightly on the old girls thighs, (which is good, right?) Yup, I think I can do this. But then, the dots on the screen (which I thought was just keeping time with me) started to climb, the tension on the peddles alters, arms needed to get going, (I did wonder why there where those handles there) 'What on earth....... argggh' I looked over at Vic.2, she gives me a sympathetic smile and a very knowing nod, 'See, its horrible' she says, with a huge wave of sympathy extending towards me.

Oh my word! It is horrible, and there, programmed in by nagging sister were three peaks on the darn screen! Three peaks which Vic.2 informs me, represent going up hill!! What has nagging sister done? Vic.2s air glider sounds like a tranquil, peaceful, easy gliding machine to kill off fatty bits, a machine you can hum pretty tunes, think about butterflies, birds, peaceful flowing waters,where as nagging sisters' 'cross trainer' is a monster., the sweat was pouring down my face, into my eyes, more so than any jog session so far! CROSS TRAINER It should be called ABSOLUTELY BLOOMIN FURIOUS TRAINER

It was Happy neighbours turn next, lets see if she remains happy after this! Im sure those words of her husbands are playing on her mind, 'Oh yeah, it is hard to do' she says, followed 'Maybe we wont do our jog after, this seems to be giving us a good work out!' If my legs would have allowed it, I would have jumped up and snogged Happy neighbour for saying that. 'Thats fine' is what I said, but in the back of my mind was thoughts of nagging sister, (if she thought about it) nagging us to still go for a mile jog. In the back of my mind, being surpressed by waves of aching pain was the still small voices saying, 'Just get out there and do it!' Well, I'm not listening,.....not yet!

I bet you have all guessed, I didn't actually reach my calorie burn up target suggested by The Beast, but then neither did Vic.2 Or Happy neighbour. The only person, is that the right term for her?, who did reach it is the inhuman, the Cruella DeNag, the Naggiest nagging sister ever!!!

Roll On next Tuesday, when we start again on the dreaded 'Angry Cross Trainer', Ok, Im kidding myself, but I got to try and enjoy this get fit thing!!




Oh by the way, as Vic.2 kindly suggest as Happy Neighbour hasn't that many pictures up so far we thought we would share with you what the torturous machine looked like while its in use. See below.