Jump rope

When my personal trainer said she wanted me to jump rope for an exercise, I said, "I don't know how. I've never done it." She couldn't believe it. Why hadn't I ever learned? "Because I'm not a girl."

As sexist (and funny) as that answer may have been, it was true.

So anyway, she pressed on and taught me, and today I forced myself to jump rope by myself ... got up to a record of 29 hops in a row!

I was also sweating like a pig and gasping for air after only five minutes. Now I know why boxers do it, although of course as a 35-year-old American, all I can think of is Doc from the Love Boat (if you're old like me, you'll remember it, too).