The Twelve Days of Fitness

OK, ladies!  We have 14 days until Christmas.  That means, as of tomorrow, 12 days that aren't Christmas or Christmas Eve.  So I am issuing a challenge, along the lines of the one at my gym:  12 days of fitness!  Do 12 days of SOME kind of exercise every day.  It can be as simple as ten jumping jacks (which would be enough to kill me -- I hate jumping jacks) if you discover it's 11:58 pm and you haven't had a moment to exercise yet.  But do SOMETHING!  Ideally it should be something different every day -- try out each of the different cardio machines at the gym, do upper body weights one day, lower another day, do a video you haven't pulled out in ten years (Jane Fonda, anyone?  I have one with Scottish dancing on it!), try jogging if you usually walk, run up and down the stairs until you pass out.  But anything is better than nothing -- if you can't come up with something new, do something old again -- it still counts.  12 days!!  That's all!  Then you can relax when Christmas arrives.

Incidentally, the list of nineteen from my gym includes:

• Bring a friend
• Take a yoga or Pilates class
• Take a Strictly Strength class (cardio muscle work)
• Take a morning cycle class (that's 5:30 am -- they mean MORNING)
• Take a cycle class after noon
• Take a cycle class on the weekend
• Take a 20 minute Absolute Core class (Pilates without the stuff I'm good at, I guess)
• Take any cardio-based aerobics class
• Free weight upper body workout
• 30 minute elliptical workout
• 30 minute stair stepper workout
• 30 minute stationary bike workout
• 30 minute treadmill workout
• Body Master (like Nautilus) upper body workout
• Body Master lower body workout
• 3 mile workout on the track
• 2 laps of walking lunges on the track
• Hammer Strength workout (it's a cross between Nautilus and free weights)
• Take 2 back-to-back classes (like I'd survive!!)

Have fun!  Who's with me?  Post each day and tell us what you did.  My gym gives a stocking of goodies if you finish -- I'm sure I can scare up a prize for you if you take the challenge!