Channeling my inner Jane Fonda...

I have been thinking about my “to do” list for this Birthday year and I have decided to give myself a reprieve about the exercise portion until after the holidays are over. After all, running around shopping for gifts, meeting people for festive drinks and rushing to the airport in my book constitutes some form of aerobic activity. If you can get exercise points in Cosmo magazine for vacuuming and sex, you ought to be able to get points for schlepping on public transportation while lugging a heavy suitcase laden with gifts to an airport, where inevitably your boarding gate is at the very end of a very long terminal! However, I will continue to debate the merits of which exercise program I ultimately choose. I am open to all suggestions, with the exception of SoulCycle. SoulCycle appears to be the latest, trendiest and always booked form of exercise here in New York City. Its the updated version of indoor stationary cycling. Who knew we needed an update? Heading to class with your celebrity friends and wallet you must arrive EARLY to get a spot on a bike! If not, you are out of luck. That sounds like the perfect excuse NOT to go – “class is booked, oh well. I guess its brunch instead”. (Obviously, the exercise portion of my transformation is not going to be easy for me) But move over Pilates, now you can reach inner peace and thinner thighs through indoor cycling with a trainer / lifestyle coach who can “feel your tension, sadness, joy, frustration” according to an interview in the NY Post Page Six magazine with the fitness entrepreneur who started it. This is an “obsession” where people are addicted to their bikes…Hmmm…lets see, at last count I had enough obsessions, a few healthy but mostly otherwise. I don’t need another one. Instead, I will run through the usual list: yoga, Pilates, weights, the dreaded treadmill and see where that takes me. At least until we get out of the freezer here in New York City, I am keeping my list of activities indoors. If I get really motivated in the next few weeks, I’ll take a walk with my sisters in Seattle over the holidays for inspiration.