Archive for June, 2006

Yeowch Pt. II

30Jun06

Today I called off my training appointment because my legs and ass really, really do hurt to the point where I think it’s OK to give them an extra few days of rest.
A little after I made the call, I was standing in the kitchen, getting something out of my purse, I think, when I [...]


Yeowch

29Jun06

My ass and my upper legs are in serious pain. I blame the lunges, but Jesus, my ass? Holy crap. I’m having trouble walking. It looks like I got fucked real good. But, alas, I didn’t.


Jade

28Jun06

I met the new trainer today. She didn’t introduce herself — we just dove right in — so I can only assume Jade is her name.
She seemed appropriately frazzled trying to pick up where Michelle had left off, getting the right exercises, sequences, weights, reps, machines, etc. I tried to help her out as much [...]


On hotness

27Jun06

One of the things I grapple with most about this quest to get fit is my motivation. It is true that I don’t want to have heart disease and diabetes when I get older, and that the surest way to offset my more unhealthy habits is to move the body around and get the blood [...]


Seriously, how is it that I have gone two weeks without writing here? It makes it impossible to catch up. The good news is, just because I haven’t been writing doesn’t mean I haven’t been working out.
I’m in the gym at least three times a week (I think I was there four times last week; [...]


Michelle told me today that Friday is her last day at the gym. She's moving on to greener pastures in DeSoto County, Mississppi. That sucks — we weren't best friends or even terribly chatty, but we did have a rapport and she knows my strengths and weaknesses and is a pretty good motivator, inasmuch as [...]


Catching up

13Jun06

I mean to publish this last Wednesday, but never got around to finishing it. So here's what I said last Wednesday. I'll pick it up from today after the fold. 
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Tuesday I worked out on my own and felt great. Cardio and mostly leg-related weights. I had planned to write something about how great it [...]


Ahhhh. Three consecutive days of working out and I’m not dead or discouraged.
Today I met with Michelle and we worked on biceps and abs. Bicep curls, hammer curls, that exercise where you hold yourself up by your forearms and lift your legs to your chest (shaking the clanking machinery the whole time), ab twists [...]


I woke up today with substantial soreness in my abs and chest. Good. I want to work all that excess nonsense into oblivion.
It was my goal to get up at about 9:30 and go to the gym. I rolled out of bed at about 9:45, got on the computer and farted around for an hour, [...]