Corn bags.  Bloggee do you know what a corn bag is?EndorphinGirl™ had an idea but did not really get it until she started working out with Gymmy the Trainer and the 16th Street Women’s Workout Club.

A corn bag is a natural heating pad that is heated by   microwave.  It is used to soothe tired and achy muscles and joints.  There are a variety of specific purposes for its use.  For instance, heating and then placing a corn bag on muscles to warm them right before exercise, or to help take the stress away from shoulders after a busy day. It can also be used as a foot warmer, after coming in from the cold, warming the toes and overall foot!  And if placed on the belly it can also soothe any tummy cramps.  So it does a lot!  For an EndorphinGirl™ and other exercise activity-focused people it’s a welcomed item to own.

The bag is filled with corn kernels.  When the corn bag is heated in the microwave, at proper temperatures, a warming popcorny smell flows through the kitchen and lasts for some time too while using the corn bag.  The corn bag user however
must be sure to NOT overcook the corn bag when nuking it in the microwave - so as to avoid making popcorn.  That is so not the purpose of the corn bag.

The corn bag comes in several shapes and sizes, often with a sleeve that allows the user to slide part of a limb or more like an appendage into.  EndorphinGirl™ likes best the shape that fits snugly on her shoulders and around her neck.  A variety of colors are generally available as well.  Bright happy colors are a favorite of EndorphinGirl™.  Colors matter!

Okay - hold the corn bag thought for just a minute! 

It’s Friday, so this morning in fact this week the original workout groups partook in their weekly indoor 05.40 a.m. workout.  The Wednesday crew which includes the two Patty Cakes and ET, and the Friday crew Marol (aka Carol Marol), Barrister and EndorphinGirl™ joined in their regularly scheduled sessions. 

Both sessions as is typical were led by Gymmy the Trainer.  It is only during the warmer weather when the two crews can work out together as the class then takes place in the park area in the hood.  Which is great fun!  One can only imagine the endorphins that happen during the combined workout session!  Just sayin!



Present day there is a corn bag shortfall in the hood.  You see Gymmy the Trainer ‘manufactures’ corn bags.  But the assembly line is broken.  Specifically, the primary piece of equipment to help in the assembly is malfunctioning.  This is sort of uber not good!  Yet, the Wednesdays and Fridays are confident that Gymmy the Trainer will have the malfunctioning equipment up and running in no time.  

EndorphinGirl™, the other Fridays and the Wednesdays are avid users of the corn bag.  Each bag lasts for quite a long time.  However, the shortfall is real as most of the gals have worn out their current corn bags and/or have given them away as gifts.  The corn bag makes a great gift.  So the workout gals are struggling a bit with their heat therapy. 

In fact, EndorphinGirl™ forgot to mention the corn bag in a past blog when she blogged about some heat therapy she was doing.  The corn bag is an even better way than the plug-in heating-pad method for warming muscles.  Yes, like in the recent month when EndorphinGirl™ needed to heat her tendonitis knee before exercise.  Instead of corn baging she used the plug-in heating pad.  The desired preference would have been the former.  But between recently sending her corn bag to her college offspring and Gymmy the Trainer’s broken assembly line, she had no corn bag.  And she used the latter method. 

So the message of today’s blog is of abudance!  Heat therapy vis-à-vis a corn bag is a really good method.  The smell is good and the warmth on the joints and muscles is even better.  The color of the corn bag may matter.  The 16^th Street Women’s Workout Club is keen to have more corn bags.  If you are a friend or relative of EndorphinGirl™, you may one day receive a corn bag as a gift (now you know it’s value).

The corn bag shortage is real . . . not perceived . . . real. The Wednesdays and the Fridays (aka the 16^th Street Women’s Workout Club) are hopeful for a quick fix to the malfunctioning corn bag equipment which is needed to get the assembly line and Gymmy the Trainer back in business. Just sayin’.

Oh and if you are interested in a corn bag, let EndorphinGirl™ know and she’ll place an order for you with Gymmy!  Gymmy the Trainer.

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Today’s picture is a favorite. It is a happy EndorphinGirl™ feeling really strong!  If she only had a corn bag!

Keep on endorphin!

EndorphinGirl™

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