Monthly Archives: July 2011

It is amazing the way we combine and create words nowadays isn’t it? Twenty years ago the caramel-latte didn’t exist nor the e-mail or pretty much tonnes of words that we now splash about in our sentences on a regular basis.

Well I have a new one for you… cardio-lates. It is an hour of action and sweat , where your legs end up quite wibbly and you think it is quite possible to have your heart explode from your chest.

The Cardio part is a tortuous 30minutes on an exercise bike turning up the resistance and being told to “go-faster-stand-up-sprint-sit down-1-2-3-4- up-sprint”…… and then if that wasn’t enough you move across to do the “lates” part on some giant rowing machines (reformer beds) with ropes and weights…. yikes! However, the worst part, and there is a worst part, is the mirrors. Generally they are not my friend in a whole bunch of situations – bathers shopping, jeans purchases, the hairdressers when your hair scrapped back and your nose looks enormous… these mirrors are the pits.

Not only do they appear to make your thighs look GIANT they make your head look tiny! You appear to be a bright red sweaty Henry Moore sculpture.

Anyway, I am pretty certain that this new word and its associated actions are going to deliver me abs of steel and maybe a gravity defying rear end! Well we can all but hope that something good comes out of it!