To reiterate, I'm not telling anyone to do anything. I'm not a doctor, I'm not a personal trainer. I'm just telling YOU what I'm doing and letting you know what worked and what didn't. I'm an older woman and I want to get fit. More than fit, really; it was my dream (though I never had the time and freedom and information to make it a goal) in college to get physically fit. To me that meant strong, thought not necessarily muscular; I wanted to have the stamina to run to run a fair distance (ten miles, perhaps, but I'd like to run a marathon now). Had I ever had a clue how to get to the point of being able to do one-armed pushups, I would have been in pig heaven. I have the time to do all this now. But at 59 years of age, this isn't exactly a refresher course for me; I'm pretty much starting from scratch with just a few advantages. Staring a fitness program from scratch at my age? I'm determined to make it so. I'm in very bad condition. I used to be fit, and was well able to play tennis like a fiend. That was when I was 19--forty years ago. In my twenties I taught sailing and raced my Hobie 14' catamaran. I won almost all the time. It takes a few muscles to do that kind of racing. I was fit for it. But, since college and through the last thirty years, I haven't had much opportunity to do much. I'm more of a reader and a watcher of movies than I am a gymnast or jogger. I've been sedentary