The New Workout Plan

Here's a not-so-secret secret: I am supremely lazy. I marathon watch shows on Netflix, glued to my little red armchair until my entire body is sore. But that doesn't make me get up and move. In college, I felt I could get by being lazy. After all, this year my apartment was a 10-15 minute walk from campus, so every time I went to class I was getting a little exercise (especially if I was running late). But now that I'm home and sedentary, I've made a commitment to myself that I'll start exercising again for real.

The only problem is that I hate exercising. I love team sports - I played field hockey from elementary school through 'til the end of high school and played lacrosse for about six years in there as well - but I hate exercising on my own. Even when I played sports I hated running and yoga is way too tranquil for me. But I have to do something, so for now I'm starting out back on the treadmill with some strength work added in.

To motivate myself in my treadmill endeavors I gave my workout a kick with a little new music. Because I'm about the lamest person out there, I'm not always updating my music library. I used to be on top of that in high school when I read Spin, but an editorial shift made me stop reading and my new music discovery suffered. So that's why my latest discovery came by way of a commercial.

Even though the new IE commercials in no way make me want to use Internet Explorer (do people still do that?) I was intrigued by the accompanying tune (titled "Too Close," above) to Google it and buy the CD. So the soundtrack to today's workout was Alex Clare's "The Lateness of the Hour." It's a little pop, a little electronic and sometimes it reminds me of slo-mo scenes in terrible action movies where a transformer transforms or something to that effect. So basically it's awesome when you're trying to push your legs to move just a little faster just a little longer.