Sunday, June 6, 2010

Sunday Afternoon At the Gym

GREAT workout today. Let's base this on the fact that there was sweat, epoch breathing, and hitt cardio which resulted in a feeling of the need to puke. Epoch breathing is when I'm breathing so hard I can't yell at the trainer. I might rephrase it as an epic in that I almost felt like I was going to have an out of body experience. Went a little something like this... I'm doing jumping jacks while Mike watched the clock to make sure I got my full 30 seconds and didn't cheat myself. At the end of 30 seconds I had a welcome 15 second break and then had to do squats and lift a weight over my head for 30 seconds followed by a 15 second break and then repeat 2 more times. On the last session of jumping jacks I seriously felt like I was going to fall over, however, the trainer was still watching the clock. I was breathing so hard I couldn't tell him..."Hey, I'm going to fall over"...I knew that if I stopped he would either a) add another set or b) add more time...so I just kept going and thought if I fall there is nothing I can do to stop it. At the end of this I said, "I need to puke." Trainer reply? "Good, we are working out now." It was intense. Okay...let me clarify...intense for me. We finished the session with abs and a great conversation about nutrition and working out. I left the gym and the pukey feeling only lasted for about thirty minutes. It's all good.

Here is what has to happen now...I have to have my husband either throw the scales away or hide them from me. The number is getting in the way. It's not going down as quickly as I think it should. The scales have been a problem for me in the past. I sabotage myself with the number. I'll even check the scales 5-6 times a day to monitor my progress. Please don't think I'm too sore to rid myself of the scales...I can't mentally do it. I have to just put him in charge of doing this for me.

Now it's been 5 hours since the workout and I'm starting to feel it. Things are getting sore. Specifically, my legs and butt. OW!

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