So, I recorded one of the Bollywood dance workouts on Fit TV (also called “Shimmy”) and finally got up the nerve to try it. I forced my sister, who is actually a fitness enthusiast as well, but perhaps even more than me, to do it with me since she was visiting from California. I thought we could both feel completely clueless and uncoordinated together – what a fun sister bonding experience! And of course, uncoordinated we did feel when we did it.

It’s so funny sometimes how you hear about the latest fads, trends and fabulous finds in the world of fitness and self improvement. That’s kind of how I found out about the P90X workout program. I heard about it first on one Sunday when my husband was having his football buddies over, one of our friends said that he knew a couple of people who were doing this “P90X thing” and were getting totally shredded and ripped and lean by doing it.

It’s officially coming near the end of the first month of the new year (new decade, that is!), and I think that it’s time for us all to evaluate how we are coming thus far in our new year’s promises to ourselves when it comes to fitness. Even if you don’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions, per se, you still have in the back of your head where you want to head in various areas of your life for the new year, and you wonder what the new year will bring for your personally, professionally and opportunity wise.

I have suffered from the bronchial restricting disease called asthma for years now. I am 35 years old, and I had had the disorder for about 27 years now. It started when I was about eight years old. I remember my first asthma attack very clearly actually. I was at the outdoor YMCA, which was a great family retreat by where I grew up. It was on acres of wooded land, and it had a variety of amenities, including tennis courts, trailing, bike trails, and even a great little event cabin where you could come in, drink some hot cocoa and thaw out after doing some cross country skiing.

My husband and I overkill on things sometimes, especially when it has to do with television and movies, which we both love to watch, but we’re picky about as well. We’re not the types to watch any old reality show that comes on just for the sake of zoning out, but we are always on the lookout for new movies and television ideas that will allow us to escape, but that will provide meaningful entertainment that is well acted and well thought out.

It seems like you could endlessly debate who in Hollywood has the “best” body. After all, it seems like everywhere you turn there is a bronzed, muscled, well toned babe or dude around every corner. Let’s face it, Hollywood types get paid to look great, and they don’t take that responsibility lightly in most cases. When they do, they also make headlines, but not the welcome kind.

So, I was surfing through Netflix the other day, trying to find titles to add to my instant cue for workouts that I could just pop on my computer and do at my whim when my butt was feeling jiggly or I just felt like I really needed to get moving while I was sitting long hours at my computer. So, I happened upon one of those 10 Minute Solutions series DVD’s that I added and tried out last Sunday while I was having one of my episodes where I just felt I need a break from working and wanted to get my blood pumping and my muscles sculpted.

I didn’t really have any fitness related gear on my Christmas wish list, namely because the things that I want still, like a heavy bag that you can only hang from the ceiling and a medicine ball, were just things that I knew I was going to buy on my own when I had the spare cash or time to go looking and bargain shopping for them.

I’m so thankful that I have a gym to work out at where I work. I’ve grown accustomed to it and have gotten spoiled. And I really got out of the habit of having to work out when I got home from work because I would usually try to get a workout in at work. It was perfect. I would work out on my lunch hour (and fifteen minutes to be exact), and then I wouldn’t even have to worry about venturing downstairs in to our little mini gym we have down there, or doing DVD’s, although I would occasionally throw one in and do a half hour if I didn’t work out at my job.

Ok, so I saw this commercial for a new set of weights that targets women who hate their arms – like me. I have to admit, after laughing my you know what off after seeing the sexually suggestive commercial which appears to be women pleasuring a man (trust me, it looks ridiculous, if you see it and don’t get that connotation, well then you might have the purest and most innocent mind ever!), I was intrigued by what this shake weight might be able to help me with when it came to one of my biggest problems on my body – my arms.