The Embarrassingly Huge Fitness Collection

I’m always referring to it so I thought I’d show it off. This bookcase holds pretty much all my Fitness DVDS and my most referred to fitness books. It actually doesn’t look too bad until you notice that there are three huge and two medium sized DVD wallets on the bottommost shelf.

I currently have no exercise streaming subscriptions and don’t have a membership to a gym. Actually the only gym membership I ever had came as a perk for teaching there - and I still used my DVDs instead! So this bookcase represents 40 years of staying fit. If I calculated 40 years of gym memberships I’d definitely come out ahead of the game.

And yes, there are workouts from 40 years ago that I still use these days. They were originally VHS tapes that I replaced with DVDs as they wore out. I actually did Callanetics so many times that I wore out two VHS tapes and finally bought a DVD of the workout. Same with some of The Original Firm VHS Tapes.

This is definitely not for everyone and I understand that but, for me it’s a huge source of joy. My daily exercise time is my “me” time. It’s me taking the time to care for myself and I love every minute of the process from deciding what to do, to doing it, to thinking back over the workout as I take my post workout shower.

I wish I could bottle the joy and elation that my daily workouts bring me and give a bottle to anyone who wanted one. That’s not possible because we’re all individuals and you really need to discover what lights your fire and keeps you coming back for the joy. I assure you It’s worth the effort to find it.

So what type of movement, sport or exercise lights your fire? Feel free to share in the comments below.