A Fitness Program That Makes Sense

I can’t give you accurate figures.
The money that’s spent every year.
For people to feel and look better.
It’s well in the billions, that’s clear.

Equipment that looks good on T.V.,
displayed by young models, quite fit.
Promises come with these products.
What these info-mercials fail to admit.

Is that it takes heart and commitment.
Devotion each painstaking day.
They make it look so very simple,
when really it isn’t that way.

So people get all fired up then.
With their credit card, purchase this dream.
It comes and they use it a while.
‘Til they realize it takes too much steam.

So it sets in the corner or closet.
Gets put in the basement or garage.
The body they pictured them getting,
was only a well marketed mirage.

The money they spent had been wasted.
It happens again and again.
People will wise up, some day soon.
The question I’m asking is when?

There are fitness tapes meant for your training.
They require devotion as well.
They tell you what gets your attention,
that their product will massively sell.

The people who buy this equipment
or invest in that new-fangled tape.
Want only one thing from their purchase.
To be in a bit better shape.

I have thought on this subject quite often.
How unfitness has become a disease.
The blame, you’ll agree with my theory,
is due to our love for T.V.s.

Couch potatoes are what we’ve transformed to.
We grow fat as we sit on our butts.
I had an idea that I’ve dwelled on.
At first people thought I was nuts.

My plan made such sense that I tweaked it.
I put it together quite well.
Couch Potato Karate’s the name of my program.
I am sure it will work and will sell.

I don’t promise to make you a model.
Or to make you a mass of pure muscle.
I promise you that you’ll feel better.
And fare better if caught in a tussle.

You give what you want to this program.
You get from it what you put in.
It’s so easy and fun once you start it.
Get my tape so that you can begin.

In the end if you do not feel better.
If, completely, it don’t satisfy.
I’ll return the ten bucks that I charged you.
All I ask is you give it a try.