Have YOU Begun your Summer Workout?

Memorial Day is coming, and we all know what that means!
Just one week from today, the LaGrange Field Club opens for the season.

Are YOU ready to walk out on that pool deck in your bathing suit?

These may be rather sensitive questions, but some we must ask ourselves nonetheless.

~ Do our pecs look their best? Are our chests firm, or are things beginning to sag?
~ How about those upper arms? Biceps, triceps? Do we have the dreaded dangling chicken fat?
~ Is there any muscle definition? (For a work in progress, see Matt in photo below.)
~ Are our delts at their peak? We want our rotator cuffs in top form while swinging our golf clubs & baseball bats, or when hitting that volleyball.
~ And what about our cores? IS there a core in there, or does that muffin top continue to rise and spill over the tops of our jeans? (Again, see photo. Clearly Erin's core was NOT engaged at the time.)

After digging deep, if we are not pleased with our answers to the above, here's the solution.

The Military-Press-with-Young-Child!


This highly effective exercise may be done with your own child, the child you're babysitting for the summer, or you may simply grab one nearby that meets your targeted lift goal depending upon your needs for that day, thus creating a personalized routine.

Warning!! For those at the beginning weight levels, do NOT grab the infant of a first-time mother! This could result in hysteria on the part of said new mother. Third, and especially fourth children work quite well. These mothers, starved for a few moments of peace, are typically VERY accommodating, and an infant falling in that birth-order position will most likely sleep in calm oblivion throughout your exercise routine, thereby eliminating unwanted attention to your efforts.

~ Check with physician before beginning any exercise routine.
~ To avoid muscle strain, begin slowly with 1 rep of 1 - 3 times per week.
~ Increase weight and reps as needed for the ultimate challenge.
~ The goal is typically 3 reps of 10 - 3 times per week for the overachievers.

Before long, we will be able to stand in the company of Megan Fox, Michelle Obama (arms? what arms?) and Mark Wahlberg (ah, Marky Mark...) with heads held high!

Or really, if it's one of THOSE days

~ Toss child aside into water. Child may simply be pushed away if too heavy to lift. (If you are at the beginning stages and holding an infant, it's highly advisable to return the baby to its mother rather than throw it into the water. Hormones can do strange things to some women, ie: cause heightened sensitivity in some situations!)
~ Grab large, brightly colored beach towel, XL T-shirt or Hawaiian-print muumuu (there are lovely selections of all items now at your local stores) and head for the snack bar.
~ Have a burger, some nachos & cheese and top that off with an ice cream bar for that nagging sweet tooth.
~ Now, grab a DIET Pepsi, and settle comfortably into any one of the many lounge chairs provided. Read a few paragraphs of your summer romance novel - guys can read the newspaper's sports section - and nod off.

Try not to drool and embarrass yourself or your loved ones.

Don't you just love pool season?


I did when I was eighteen.


Now? Not as much.

Does anyone want to join me at Target for buy one, get one free cover-ups, followed by a Blizzard at Dairy Queen?
My treat!