Usually my workout partner, Doc, and I will go outside to run for a bit after we finish hitting the weights, but lately it's been too wet for us to go outside. Instead, we've been doing a full workout - body and mind - on the chessboard.
I haven't played chess in about two years. I played a bit in the county jail but there was an unbeatable player who ruined it for me. Most everyone else I've seen since has had attitudes while playing. Doc has been playing for a while, so he figured I needed a handicap. He grabbed a medicine ball and said that for every piece a person takes, he must do twenty pushups on the medicine ball.
We started playing pushups chess a week or so ago and do different exercises with the ball each time - sit-ups, throws, one-armed pushups. I'm still not a very good chess player or strong guy, but at least now I'm doing both at once.
* Isaac Asimov
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