Exercise is Fun, John O’Keefe

(Artwork by Toni Verkruyse)

“Maria, you’ve got to see this,” my girlfriend called me four weeks ago about a new program on TV. A fitness guru was on the Spanish-speaking channel showing exercises you could do without going to the gym or using a yoga mat and understanding Hindu. To my pleasant surprise, I could follow the instructions fairly well. Since then I haven’t missed the twenty-minute segment Saturday mornings.

Today she is dressed as a witch holding a broom. “I am going to show you how to do isometric workouts sweeping with a broom, followed by stretching.” It is truly creative and quite spectacular; most moves are a bit strenuous, the rest are good cardio. I feel energized and the nagging pain in my lower back is mostly gone. Bien hecho [well done].

Then, at the end, she says, “Now, when your beloved husband walks in the kitchen and asks, what the hell you’re doing, you just hit him over the head with the broom. He’ll know exactly why he got it.”

Frankly, I never once found that joke funny before but coming from her, and after a nice training session like this, it sounds so hilarious! Util y divertido al mismo tiempo [useful and entertaining at the same time].

My husband, his Spanish lousy and his nose bleeding profusely, doesn’t seem to get it.
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