Friday, December 13, 2013

Adventures In Sporting Goods

Walking through a local sporting goods store and feeling like an alien. Like I no longer belong. What are all these items? There was a time where I felt comfortable and entirely in my element with browsing and considering possibilities with Wilson Jets (basketballs) and the latest scientific advancements and breakthroughs in golf balls and aluminum softball bats. Now I don't have a clue as to what questions to ask.

Looking these days at cold weather clothing, punching bags and slam balls. I think that I could use a slam ball though I have very realistic fears of throwing out my back and dislocating my shoulders. I take it that you just raise it as high as possible, slam it to the ground and repeat!! With no fears of the ball rolling away. Seems sweat inducing and simple enough. Been looking for something I can do in the privacy of the garage to compliment the stationary exercise bike. The dilemma .... A twenty, thirty or fifty pounder? I'm still macho enough, despite advanced age, to think at first glance, a fifty pounder but the inner voice that sounds like better judgement is screaming thirty!! Then looking online, I see that they also come in a twenty pound version.

I wonder if they have a jump rope with a digital counter?

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