BehindTheMedspeak: Wogging

"If you regularly walk about 30 minutes most days of the week, you are ready to start wogging."

So wrote Rachel Beckman in an item in the February 19, 2008 Washington Post Health section about a story in the March 2008 issue of Family Circle magazine.

Wogging ".... means combining walking and jogging, though not necessarily at the same time," she added.

"The magazine's six-week wogging plan resembles interval training with recommended workouts such as walking for three minutes, jogging for seven and repeating it twice."

A jog could break out here on my treadmill at any moment.

Which reminds me of a wonderful joke from back in the day of Johnny Carson's monologue.

He was just standing there, doing what he did, when he remarked, "I was at a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out."

Silence from the studio audience.

I nearly fell off my couch laughing.

Then the audience slowly got it and a roar of laughter erupted.

Still one of my all-time favorite jokes.