Sweet jeebus, I'm out of shape...

In light of the recent changes in my life, I've decided to make some positive choices and get myself on a regular exercise regimen. the flipside of that is that I feel I'm too doughy to even think about showing my face in a gym. So, in order to burn off some flab, I've opted to just plain start getting more activity in my life. Combine that with video games and a PS2 and what do you get?

That's right. Dance Dance Revolution.

So this evening I broke out my copy of DDR Supernova I purchased the other day and fired it up. Clicked over to workout mode and input my weight. I won't mention it here because even for my 6'4" frame it's more than a bit over the norm and more than slightly embarrassing. I set the amount of calories I wanted to burn per round and kicked it off.

Now, let me preface the next part of this by saying that while my hand-eye coordination is halfway decent, my foot-eye coordination blows goats. Ergo, my score blew goats. Even on the easy songs. But I kept on moving because in the end I didn't care about the score on my first try, just the amount of a workout I got. After two rounds I knocked off because I was feeling winded and I know my body's limits.

My legs felt like Jell-O.

My heart felt like a trip-hammer.

My mouth felt like the rug of a camel tent.

And I had essentially jogged the equivalent of 2 miles in under 15 minutes. I hadn't done anything like that since I was in junior high.

It may not be much, but I'm pretty damn proud of myself for that. Now I just have to keep it up on a regular basis. That and figure out some way to keep the dance pad from shifting around on the carpet...