Aerobic Videos

Aerobic Videos

I have decided that it is time to start doing more exercise. I walk on a regular basis however I have two Labrador Retrievers with me so I find myself starting and stopping with them. I want low impact activity for my joints. I decided I would look into aerobic videos to see if there was a program that would benefit me.

It was not difficult to find the aerobic activity videos section at the media store. The health and fitness section was huge. It seems that every athlete, movie star and television personality has come out with their own aerobic videos. I started going through them. I was planning on exercising in the bedroom area. We have a VHS player in that room so we could disregard the DVD’s.

We also could set aside the aerobic videos that were high impact. We still had many to choose from. I know that it is important for me to stretch my muscles well to maintain flexibility and to warm the joints before using them, so I wanted a tape that included stretching. I wanted to exercise when I got home from work and before I ate dinner, so I looked at aerobic videos that were 45 minutes or less in length.

I also wanted a workout that would be fun to do so that it would keep me motivated to do it. After several minutes of searching the sales person came and asked if I needed help. I explained what I was looking for. The cost of the aerobic activity videos was not tremendously high, but I did not want to purchase more than one to see if I liked them. The sales clerk suggested that I check with the library. People will donate tapes that they are no longer using and the library will let you check them out, as you would a book.

This seemed like a great idea. I went to the local library and was surprised with the number of aerobic videos and other videos that were available. The librarian explained that people donate when they convert to DVD’s or when they no longer want the tapes. I picked out 3 videos that I had seen at the store. I tried each one and decided that I liked the aerobic activity videos that featured walking in place along with weight training using light hand held weights. My husband could use heavier weights to get a more vigorous workout. I took the aerobic activity videos back to the library and explained that we had found the one that we wanted to purchase.

The librarian suggested going to the second hand store in town and look through their video section. She stated that many people donate a variety of videos to sell. We took her advice and found that the second hand store had 2 of the aerobic activity videos that we were interested in plus several others. They were priced at $2.00 each so we bought several of them so that we could have variety to our workouts. Aerobic activity videos have turned out to be a very inexpensive way to increase our cardio vascular activity.

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