One hard workout

7:57 am on Tuesday, August 1, 2006

My son’s birthday is this week. He’s been begging for the longest time for a trampoline. We finally caved and got together with a few family members to get him one for the backyard. We picked up a nice 14′ trampoline with a full net on it. The net was at mom’s insistence. No trampoline was going to be at our house without one.
It took about 30 minutes to setup the trampoline and another hour and a 1/2 to do the cage. We have a prefectly sized spot in the backyard under the shade of a few pecan trees. The trampoline is shaded from sunrise to sunset so, even in the Texas summer heat, you don’t overheat too badly.
After we got it setup we played for a bit on it. Here it is, two days later, and my stomach oblique muscles are sore as hell. You don’t realize how much of a workout it is until you go at it for a while. It’s one form of aerobic excersize I actually enjoy so maybe it’s not such a bad thing to have it back there. Now I’ve got to wait on my muscles to heal before I go again. 🙂

4 Comments

Comment by Bill Bradford

2006/08/01 @ 14:57

A NET? What kind of wussy anti-natural-selection parents ARE you?

safety net. pshaw. I bet you took away his lawn darts, too! 😎

Comment by Mando

2006/08/01 @ 15:09

Yeah, we have a tramampoline with no net in our backyard.

No one’s been busted up yet, but we’ve had a couple of close calls. I basically act as a net, running around the trampoline catching the kids before they hit the ground.

This does NOT make for a fun activity.

Comment by Tony

2006/08/02 @ 8:25

We used to have some lawn darts. I had to sell them when I got laid off a few years ago. People will pay really good money for a complete original set in the original box. I miss those things. They are getting harder and harder to find too.

Comment by Your mum

2006/08/06 @ 20:16

haha, hilarious story. that made me giggle my boobs off

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