Naturally Fit? Huh?
I survived Chocolate Fondue Overdose, a little smarter for next time.
Jill is the instructor of the TrackFit class that I catch usually twice a week. It’s a run/walk/lunge/stair-climbing adventure with some core strengthening exercises thrown in at the end just in case the lunges didn’t kill you first.
Jill has walked and ran marathons. She’s intelligent, balanced, knowledgeable, funny, and has a 55-year old body that most 20-year olds would die for. (She also looks a whole lot like Cheryl Tiegs.)
Getting to the point … we have a very negative woman in the class, who warms up at about the same pace as me … but now I try VERY hard to get ahead of her, because I can’t stand her voice or her pooooor-me perspective on life. She is complaining to her friend today, “Some people are just naturally fit”, implying that Jill did not have to work at all for her body. Naturally fit? HUH??? You mean that people come out of the womb having worked out and ready to race??? I know body types are different, but I know plenty of naturally thin people who are not fit.
Seems that Jill also heard Negative Nellie (don’t have a clue what her name might be). After the class, Jill says that you can never judge people by appearances, as you have no idea what life experiences that people have had. Jill pulled out an old worn picture of her from her wallet … she was 25, had just had her 3rd child, and weighed in a 285 lbs. She couldn’t walk to the mailbox down the block without having a nap later.
I was blinking away tears.
Today, I salute the Jills, for the motivation they give to people like me to keep plugging along, one step at a time. And to the Nellies, thanks for the motivation to run faster … to get away from those negative vibes!
Happy Friday, all!
