The other day I was lamenting my lack of sleep and motivation to go workout.  I was torn between going to Boot Camp or going back to bed.  In the end I chose to work out but I didn’t go to Boot Camp – instead I turned to Tae Bo.  Yes. Tae Bo.

In the late 9o’s Tae Bo was the rage.  Billy Blanks and his no excuses workout was what me and my friends were doing.  I side kicked and upper cutted my way through my pregnancy with Alexa and used the tapes to get back in some kind of shape after she was born.

As I began to run more, Billy Blanks and his rock hard abs and rock hard sidekicks were relegated to a box under the bed.  A few years ago I purged half of my collection of tapes to a garage sale.  This still left me with about 12 tapes that I couldn’t part with.   I had the first three that were filmed in that little studio with the cheesy music as well as the slicker versions that came out later.

So the other morning I decided, on a whim, to take a stroll down memory land and pulled out the most recent VHS.  For you young folks out there, before Blue Ray and DVD’s, movies and entertainment came on these large cassettes called VHS tapes.

I was happy to see my old friend Billy and his sidekicks again.  I speedbagged, front and back kicked my way through 50 minutes of Tae Bo and ended the workout feeling refreshed and sweaty. Just like the old days.

Now go run!

Keli 🙂