Callie and the Fitness Sabatoge!

[Frannie & Callie]

No, she didn't eat the DVD, or the DVD case, if that's what you're expecting (not that anyone would be shocked!). It's winter time, and much like Callie, I've found that I put on a bit of a winter coat. However, I don't think mine (which is made of ice cream and cheese) is nearly as cute as her furry locks. Callie and I walk a lot, but I decided that I need to start doing pilates again to try and tone myself out of the extra padding. So tonight I was doing my formerly fave pilates dvd and Callie decided that she couldn't BEAR for me to be on the floor and not paying attention to her. For about 10 minutes, she was pretty good...she just was hanging out in her bed, chewing her kosher dog stuffed animal. Then, really out of nowhere, she just took a flying leap onto my belly, right towards the end of the pilates 100 (if you don't do pilates, this position has me on my back, with my head, arms, and legs all lifted off the ground...not an awesome position for having a 40lb furry monster land on you!). I hit the ground, hit pause, got her settled back down for most of the upper body series. The real fun came with the abdominal series...most of the time my head, shoulders, and legs are in the air and Callie kept coming and pushing her toy against my butt until it squeaked (the toy, not my tush!). Then she came around and started to lick my face. Then, when in a V-sit position, she came over and started to bite my toes. What a little stinker. At that point I gave up (it was the last move, so all I really gave up was the cool down) and gave her my full attention. Turns out that she didn't need water, food, or to go out. She wanted me to throw the squeaky tennis ball down the stairs, over and over and over. She and I are going to have to come to an understanding about this...sometimes I need to exercise more than my legs (walking) or one arm (throwing)!

[Frannie & Callie]

Callie did a LOT better last night with the pilates. Everytime she moved, I told her to get back in her bed, and she mostly stayed there. She did get her revenge for that at 5:30am when she woke me up, ready to start her day!

[Donna K & Quincy]

Same problem here. It's impossible to do yoga with a 60 lb doodle jumping on you and barking at you. So these days exercise time equals crate time.

[Frannie & Callie]

I always think that Callie needs to do pilates until I see her wet...then I worry that she needs to eat more. She is SO furry right now! I trimmed her face a little bit so that her eyes are visible.

[Dan, Judi, & Timbow]

Frannie, you crack me up. Maybe Callie was trying to figure out how to do pilates too? lol. :-)

[Leslie and Halas]

I've tried to do Pilates around Halas, too. If I can get him off my stomach, he lays down right next to me, so then I can't really move around like you need to do in Pilates. It's tough to discourage them from being cuddly, so I usually just give up and play with him for awhile.

[Frannie & Callie]

Ha! I think these doods just don't want to grasp that we might just be on the ground for purposes other than playing with them! I'm going to give it a whirl again tonight. Hopefully it will become routine and Callie and I can come to an understanding (which will probably be that she sits on me or licks my face while I work out)!

[Leslie and Halas]

Whenever I try to do any exercise that has me laying on the floor, Halas comes over and sits on my stomach. He just walks right on to me and sits down on me. Sometimes I just keep trying to do the crunches to see if I can throw him off-balance. If I try to lay on my stomach, he sits on the back of my legs.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

This is good. I'm always looking for new reasons not to work out, and this is a really good one.

[Frannie & Callie]

We'd all probably agree that there are LOTS worse things than having our doods (and cats!) love us so much! HOWEVER...Mama needs to get back on an exercise routine!!!

[Kendra K. Rhoton]

Remington has to be crated when I'm working out and his Dad is not home... he always has to be all over me!