The wrong and right way to exercise with cats
It can be tough to stay in shape with cats around. Not only do they spend most of their time napping, making them poor role models for an active lifestyle, when they are active they like to interrupt your workout.
The solution? Use them as dumbbells, which isn’t much of a stretch.
Shorty and Kodi! I love seeing them and their human! They’re so photogenic and curious.
That first video is fun. Love when the cat’s aping his arm stretch.
They sure do like their Dad!
I’m glad Dad learned something for that second video. Hilarious and so sweet.
Finally! He got off my mat! Dad is a very patient and loving man. Sweet.
I can’t help but wonder if they ignore him the other 23 hours of the day
Well, yeah. Unless he’s doing something else they find interesting, like feeding them or trying to sleep.
How many of us would watch even without the cats..?
Also, the bigger kitty didn’t look all that relaxed with that bath.
Yes, it’s a two-fer in the cuteness department. And so patient! I’ll say it again, kindness is one of the most attractive attributes a guy (or girl) can have.
Is the black & white one full grown? He looks like a kitten or a ‘teenager’.
According to their youtube page: “Shorty (the black beauty) was born September 24, 2010. Kodi (the kodi-pendent tuxedo) was born January 17, 2012.” The top video was posted in April 2014 and the second was posted in April 2013. (I’m guessing it was filmed earlier than that because he doesn’t look like he’s over a year old in that one.)
(Also, “kodi-pendant” lol.)
Back in college, I was required to take a couple PE classes. Since the school was a small one, the courses for my major dictated what time slots I could use for other requirements and electives. The only PE class that fit my schedule was aerobics. In a class of thirty, I was one of two males. Some of my friends teased me until I pointed out that I spent my mornings in a class full of girls jumping around in t-shirts and yoga pants.
There are parts of college I miss.
I had to take 3 gym classes in college; I opted for tennis, volleyball, and badminton (hmm…seems to be a theme there). But my school was at least 65% female at the time (probably only slightly less now) so odds were whatever I took was going to be mostly women. (I was initially placed in a swimming class my first semester, when they just put you in core classes and you got your schedule at summer orientation. Thankfully that schedule packet also came with a drop form because I made use of that form right then and there. I cited my long history of ear infections, which was not untrue, but not the real reason I didn’t want to take a swimming class.)
PE at the university: the stuff of nightmares
The only course I ever failed at university was PE 🙁
I think they were all pass/fail, at least. You basically just had to show up and attempt to play the game.
Well, normally it was pass/fail for us as well.
I did 1 term of aerobics, 1 term of swimming, then failed at aerobics and then 2 terms of tennis.
In most seminars we were allowed not to turn up 3 times/term.
At PE usually it was the same, but some teachers expected us to make up for the lost classes, for example attend someone else’s aerobics class if you couldn’t go to yours. Once I was away for a week at a student conference, so I missed a PE. among many other classes. I made up for it at another aerobics class and I took the document to my teacher to prove I had done what was expected. She started making remarks that she was sure I was escaping to an easier class because Iam not tough enough for her class. I cannot move my fat ass, etc. ( I was roughly 116 lbs at that time ) So when she had to sign our term, she told me such a weakling could not pass. So I asked her if I could still drop the subject as “not completed” She said that my case was a clear failure and she did not just give me an F but also indicated in my book that the signature was denied from me (= meaning Iam the failure of failures). I just looked at her and asked her if she really felt that insignificant…
Yep, that said a whole lot more about her than it did about you! What a lousy excuse for a teacher.
My first year schedule was pretty weird because a) computer science major, b) I went in with a number of credits thanks to AP classes and comping out of foreign language requirements entirely, and c) in between being assigned an advisor and setting up my schedule, my advisor friggin *died.* So a weird schedule plus the new advisor having no idea what I had and hadn’t been told. Chaos ensued. And summer courses.
My school had a “Core Curriculum” so they just started you in some of the classes that you’d have to take anyway. Some majors (like music) would have you in major-specific classes, too, but I didn’t declare a major (which was English Lit) until my sophomore year.
My brother actually had to go an extra year because he went to community college, and while the 4-year school he transferred to accepted all his credits, they had prerequisites for some of those classes that they still required him to take, even though they accepted the credit for the more advanced class. Silly, but it worked out well for me, because I went to a private, out-of-state school and I had a decent grant, which they cut to a not-so-decent amount once he graduated, so him going an extra year meant a little less in student loans for me. 😉 Funny, no longer having a state-school, in-state tuition to pay doesn’t make a whole lot of difference in the parents’ financials. Who’da thunk? (This was also 22 years ago, so there’s that.)
My undergrad, a very old school in Philadelphia, has a strange requirement that everyone has to pass a swimming test – swim 2 laps in the Olympic pool.
I was trying to graduate a year early, and barely managed to do so. I just couldn’t fit a PE swimming class in there.
Luckily no one asked me about passing the swim test. But for years I had a nightmare someone found out and is coming to take away my undergrad degree.
10 years later I finally took an adult swimming class at YMCA. Haven’t had the swim-fraud nightmare since 🙂
Ps. Badminton is awesome.
I know how to swim. I just really didn’t want to have to put on a bathing suit in front of my fellow students twice a week. (And it really would have increased my chances of getting ear infections, which I managed not to do between about age 14 and my sophomore year in college, when I woke up at 5am one day with a stabbing pain; by sheer coincidence, my dad was coming that day to set up a new computer for me because mine had apparently eaten its own hard drive, so he was able to take me to a doctor).
Wuyizidi, did you go to Drexel? I had a friend who had to pass their swim test and she was afraid of water.
Yes, that was Drexel 🙂
I just imagine the Drexel’s like “as a final condition of our endowment, it is our wish that this institution produces a new kind of wholesome, clean cut young engineers of both sound mind and body, at home on both land and water, so before they can graduate, we want each of them to swim across the Schuylkill River without sinking.”
I’d attach all kinds of crazy strings if I were donating big money to a school. “Full time students must wear a koala onesie at least one day a week. All graduates must have completed a practical exam in putting sweaters on cats.”
I used to swim in the Schuylkill when I was a kid, when there was still coal dust on the banks (and presumably in the water) My husband rows on it and gone in a few times, but it’s cleaner now.
You mean the SureKill river as it’s known locally?
That’s the expressway?????????
Beautiful kitties and yeah, their human ain’t bad either! This is really cute, funny, and sweet!