Meat Market
Thursday, January 04, 2007
So, I braved the free-weight area of the gym today. What a meat market. I'm always intimidated to go over there. It's full of buff grunting men who life mega weights and eyeball any women in the area. But, I'm serious about this Body for Life thing and I thought I'd better try an upper body work-out so I could experience my initial crippling soreness in time to recover before I being the program on Monday.So, I went over the the free-weight area with my Body for Life book, my progress report print-out (that tells me what to do), and a pencil. After each set of weights, I wrote in progress report and looked at the book's pictures on how to do my next exercise. Boy did I feel dumb. Here I am, such a novice that I have to have a book to tell me how to life the weights and when I finally do it, I'm straining and turning red just lifting 5 lbs right next to a guy who is lifting 95 lbs with each arm!!
But, everyone has to start somewhere and eventually I'll graduate to 10 lbs. For now I'll just have to suffer the humiliation (not that ten lbs would be less humiliating). I have to admit, I had a great work-out. My arms feel like Jell-o. I could hardly cary Lilly to the car afterwards. I never got this kind of feeling from the circuits.
posted by Avorie @ 2:36 PM,
2 Comments:
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At 6:59 AM,
Amanda and Tim said...
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I personally think you are VERY brave! I haven't ever set foot in a gym - they intimidate me far too much!!
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At 8:11 AM,
Isabel said...
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It really can be a meat market. I have that part about the gym.
But good for you. Who cares what the others might have thought.
(And I've heard some great things about the Body for Life stuff. Good luck!)
