Fitness Friday – Me Vs. The Dog. Who Won?
Well, I’ve been given clearance to work out again and I’m back on the road to a flat belly and nice butt. My husband told me to take it easy and skip the hula hooping and maybe put off the next 30 day challenge, but I completely ignored him and worked out until my legs ached.
Fortunately, they didn’t ache TOO bad because I had help recovering. Weeks back, I decided to challenge my dog to a Personal Trainer: Walking “walk off”. We each wore an activity meter and checked our stats daily for six weeks. It motivated me to get off my butt more, since I was really just feeling sorry for myself having just had abdominal surgery.
It also really intrigued my husband. So much so that he went and got a second copy of the game and gave a meter to his best friend. Not only do they now take walks during their lunch breaks, but my husband has taken to coming home from work and WALKING MY DOG.
Now Tribute won’t even poo in the yard. He holds it and let’s little doggy farts rip until someone walks him outside. I spent a ton of time in Upstate NY and have to admit, I didn’t wear my meter as much as I could have. I like to have the occasional adult beverage (a.k.a. “beer”) from time to time with my childhood friends when I visit home and one night I accidentally dropped it next to a bush I was peeing in on the farm we had a party at.
I spent the whole next day looking for it and because of that, decided that I wouldn’t wear the meter when I went out at night. Problem was, I did most of my walking when I went out.
Basically, I’m making up every excuse possible to explain how my dog won this challenge. That’s right. He won. By a mile (quite possibly). Here are the final stats:
ME: 109, 732
MY DOG TRIBUTE: 123, 914
Yeah. Har, har. Julie was beat by a DOG. Well, you would have been, too. Have you ever tried to win a competition against a dog? Tribute ALWAYS wins. He can clear a plate faster (just barely), he gets to Ryan before I ddo after work each day (knocks us all down in the process) and now it turns out he walks more than me.
Oh, well! I’m happy for him! I’m not a sore loser! NO! It’s good to know my dog gets his lazy ass up off the couch from time to time (where he’s currently sleeping). I’m GLAD I could write that my big, fat, lazy 7 year old dog (49 in human years) is more active than me. I think it’s SUPER that my husband decided to start WALKING my dog to endure he got the steps he needed each day.
That being said, anyone looking for a dog? He’s house-broken and apparently walks a lot! 
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Hah, try running with the mooses!
I have two mooses (one moose-sized malamoose and one court-jester husky moose) who FINALLY are starting to learn that pulling like a Mack Truck does NOT a happy mommy make. However, there’s a great baseball diamond close by, and in the morning I’ll let them run free there (it’s fenced in).
They probably get more mooseercize than me……
Cute doggie you have, btw!
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A tribute to Tribute. Nice.
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What a cute challenge. This sounds like a great motivator. I don’t have a dog, but would be curious to go up against my energetic 4 yr old.
Awesome story. I think I remember sometimes at the beginning you were winning. Here is how I see it. When you are on vaca you didn’t wear it but you still walked so you might have won just no numbers to show for it.
AWESOME!! I have got to get one of those. I’ve been using my pedometer and well damn thing is confusing to many buttons. Note to self.. MUST GET DS.
Keep it up Julie and Congrats to both you and Tribute. He is a cutie looks like my dog just younger.
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Too funny! You inspired us with the DS Walking Trainer, so my daughter and I went out and bought it and she whips my butt most days in the step category. And she even upped her goal number. Whatever!
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Sounds like a really good way to get and stay motivated
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Aww, at least he’s a cutey. That helps
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Your dog is cute – but I’m still laughing over the part about you losing your meter while peeing in the bushes.
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Girl you are so funny! I love that you challenged your DOG! ha ha!
Oh, and the comment you posted on my page was the best!
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Heh heh…Julie, you’re the cutest sore loser ever!
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I would love to do something like that. It is still too darn hot in Las Vegas to do anything outside yet… but I hope things cool off soon so we can get more active!!
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hell no I don’t want a dog that will make me walk. What are you thinking? I can feel guilty enough with just myself thank you.
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Sounds like you’re loving life. Good to hear you are doing so well!
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Damn…that LAD (Lazy Ass Dog) beat you? And here I thought you would whoop my butt! Alas…it was not to be.