“Just pump it…louder!” The Black Eyed Peas blare from your ear buds. The world blurs into the background as you get lost in an intense sweat session. Running on the treadmill for the last twenty minutes has you dripping. There it goes again, your right knee begins to ache with every pound. As you madly stab at the arrow buttons on the controls, the wheels come to a halt. After running on an aching knee for weeks you’ve had enough.

Oh well, at least you tried to lose that extra 10 pounds, but obviously your body is rejecting the struggle. You aren’t meant to stride among the gazelle legged joggers who prance around the lake as though hopping on clouds. Wrong, wrong, wrong…let’s not head down that dark tunnel.
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