Somewhere along the way, while debating about how to strengthen my arms, I was reminded of this magazine: Shape from June 2006. In it was a really awesome workout called 21 Days to your Best Bikini Body with some really neat moves. I remember trying the workout and being really impressed with it. Sure, it's not going to get someone into stupidly good shape if they're brand new to working out (like I was when I tried it). But I thought that if it got me into somewhat better shape in 21 days I'd be happy enough.
Of course, when I remembered the workout, I couldn't for the life of me remember what issue it came from. I remembered that there was a blonde lady in a bikini on it, and that the cover was sort of yellow. Beyond that, a whole lot of nothing. But I wasn't too worried. I mean, I must have blogged about following the workout on here, right?
Wrong. After searching through this blog I couldn't find a single reference to this magazine. I don't think I actually blogged about this workout at all, probably because I gave it a try during the summer of 2006, a year before I started blogging.
So my next thought was to track down the workout online. Of course I didn't remember what it was called when I first started looking. All I could remember (besides the aforementioned cover) was that the workout helped your entire body, and that part of it used an exercise ball. It may have used a medicine ball, too, but I'm not 100% sure about that. So I did a search for exercise ball workouts on Shape.com. That brought up hundreds of results with no easy way to sort through them. Another search for "medicine ball" brought up less results, but being unsure of whether or not a medicine ball was even in the workout, I quickly abandoned that search.
It was around that time when I started looking for Shape back issues. I couldn't remember the exact year, so I stumbled onto a back issue site that had cover pictures. Looking around the mid-2000's, I stumbled on the March 2008 issue. There's a blonde, in a bikini, on a yellow background. That must be it!
So next I started trying to track down a copy of the magazine. I was hoping to find a digital copy, but no such luck. I did find the back issue for sale on Amazon.com though. But for some reason, the whole magazine, while looking really familiar, didn't seem right. Of course, at that time I was regularly buying Shape, so many of the issues looked familiar. And I was almost positive that the workout was mentioned on the cover (which it wasn't on the March 2008 issue).
It was around that time, when I was waffling about buying it, that I took another look on Shape's website and the words of the article sort of came to me: 21 Days to being Bikini Ready, or something like that. A quick search on their website gave me no obvious hits (and neither did a Google search), so I went back to looking at the back issues website. Paying close attention to the magazines I recognized (because I knew that the issue I wanted was one of the first issues I bought at that time), I realized that the issue had to be from before 2007. So with that in mind, I looked at the 2006 issues and found it almost immediately; on the June 2006 cover was both the blonde in the bikini and the article I remembered: 21 Days to your Best Bikini Body.
So after all of this, I ended up buying myself a new copy of the magazine. I can't find my original copy (and believe me, I looked everywhere I could think of) and I really want this workout back. And even if I do one day find the original, I'm totally ok with having two!
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