My turn for a home fitness vent!!!

I was in physical therapy for two years

And it was only 15 years later when I took up doing yoga with my computer (yeah yoga today dot com) that I realigned my back and neck and got two inches of height out of it. My neck had a hump in it I looked like the hunch back from notre dame. I had been in a car accident when I was eleven years old and slammed head first into the dash board, no seat belt. I had gone to gyms for years and not really lost much weight, if anything I put on pounds. People were always telling me not to work so hard (my face turns red) but now that I don't worry about what I look like I push myself and I'm finally seeing improvement. Because of my rapid breath of fire (hence my handle) I no longer get a pain in my side from cardio-it just never happens even if I'm out of breath or sucking it in. I can push on my intervals up to 185 beats per minute and yeah I'm working but no pain.

Now my neck is normal. I can run for a couple of minutes at a time up hill. I've dropped over 60 pounds. And all it took was my lap top, a heart rate monitor, a step and consistency. Oh btw I'm down from a size 22 to a 14. I haven't shopped in normal sizes in over ten years.

So, who says home fitness doesn't work?
 
I didn't sense gym bashing either. I think the comments were more directed toward those who openly scoffed at home fitness routines.

Maybe I missed it.

My thoughts too! I didn't think this thread was even about gyms, much less bashing them. I thought it was about people who think you can't get fit with the equipment you have at home!
 
Dude, you are funny.

I usually point out to people that, in addition to designing about a hundred home-work out dvds, Cathe also OWNS a HUGE gym in New Jersey and probably knows a whole lot more about fitness than most people from constant interaction with the allegedly-more-serious-because-they-GO-to-a-gym clients IN HER OWN FACILITY(!). I mean, please. I would love to gauge their reactions while watching the plyos in IMAX3 or the huge amounts of weight Cathe and crew lift during GSL... Oh sure, twinkie stuff...
 

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