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Friday, January 12, 2007

On the Ball

I’ve become one of those people—one of those people who actually does those weird things that writers suggest in magazines. In fact, I think I’ve even suggested this in a magazine although I hadn’t tried it until now.

Check me out!




Supposedly it’s good for core strength. I’ve been sitting on it for a day and a half and I don’t have a six-pack yet—Although this morning I have noticed some lower back pain. Awesome.

This magazine said to try it for 30 minutes at first and then work your way up to an hour. I’m proud to say I just sat on it and never got up. The first day I kept my chair close by but now it’s off in the corner. Sometimes I rock back on the ball, just like I used to do with my chair.

It’s a shame, because I had this nice, expensive office chair. No, it was actually just a chair from our kitchen table. And it’s broken. So this ball is a real improvement.

When I get sick of sitting on this ball I’m going to scour the magazines for another gimmick. Oh, I think I already found one!



3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I totally want the bike/desk at my office. Or the treadmill/computer!

Writinggal said...

You could probably get away with it because you have an actual office. But I wouldn't try it in a cube.

Liz knows my pet peeve about people asking me about things in my cube. That's why I never hung up anything personal. Can you imagine if I was sitting on a bouncy ball? Oh, the endless questions!

Anonymous said...

One of our doctors actually had a foot pedal thing that you used under the desk.
It was squeaky, so it was really annoying.
If you twitch and talk to yourself, people usually stop asking questions.