I am still pretty jazzed about the spinning class I took yesterday, even though I am very sore in my legs, and nether regions. I saw people piling towels on their seats and I just thought that maybe they sweated a lot. Obviously not one of my finer moments. Mark is a bike rider. He has the bike jerseys, the clip on shoes, and the padded pants. He even had gloves for his hands. I know that he would like to ride here in SC more, but he hasn't been able to find safe roads. Most of the roads here are shoulder less, but every once in awhile, he will brave the streets and go for a long ride. There were a number of families in Indiana that would get together and go on rides, in fact I have a couple of great memories from then. Once Caitlyn wiped out on her bike, and our friend Bob stopped to help us, only he forgot to take his feet out of the clip on pedals, and fell over sideways. Another of our friends, Chuck, had a bee fly up his pant leg, and he had a terrible crash. There was nothing funny about it at all and we are grateful he wasn't hurt, but I still smile when I think of him telling that story. Enough reminiscing for now, but I just want to say again, if you haven't tried spinning, do...it is a trip.
Today we are meeting at 6:45 to work out. The instructions from Ron were to do cardio for 45 minutes, then come down to the man gym, and we'll get started. Goodie...two hand scanners and turnstiles...again....by the way, my bruise is black and purple from the turnstile arm...I know, I need to build a bridge and get over it, but it still hurts. Anyway, as things would have it, I was able to get to the gym in time to do 40 minutes of the elliptical, so even though our goal was 45 minutes, I felt good, and was sweating to prove it. Message to everyone..."The Food Network" is not the best choice for stationary exercise viewing. I was watching Paula Deen and her son Bobby, make these oatmeal cookies, that were stuffed with marshmallow cream, chocolate fudge, and nuts....need I say that her first words were, "ya'll, this recipe starts with two sticks of budda"....I had to change the channel. I landed on "King of Queens", and ran to my hearts content. I might try those cookies sometime..but certainly not now.
We had five people tonight. Myself, the praying lady (she is great), two mentors, and Ron. I still haven't seen the other five actual members of my team since they are going to other workouts. I worry that they are bonding without me. We are a team after all...aren't we? We all follow Ron around like little ducks, so when he stops, we all stop in a pile. I don't think he loves it much. Anyway...he has us working on our upper body, bicep curls, hammer curls, one armed rows, both arm rows, shoulder presses, tricep extensions, and on and on....we do the set for 30 seconds to a minute, then do something else for that same amount of time, then again, only different, and we do this almost non-stop for well over 45 minutes. I forgot to bring my water bottle so I have to get quick sips of water, and I wet my towel to help wipe my face and get the sweat out of my eyes. Then he says..let get bars..oh no...he says "here Kelly, you can handle this one"...Gaaa! It is blue, a 10 pounder...he smiles that smile again (evil) and away we go, presses, curls, we lay down on mats and go chest presses, and tricep extensions, over and over again. That 10lb bar felt like it was 100lbs when we got done. Oh, by the way, he gave the pink 5 pounder to Miss Praying lady..so that was alright, and I actually handled it better than I thought I would. Yeah!
We did stomach exercises that were killer, then we did push ups, and ...dah, dah, dahhhhh..Walk ups. I did three sets of four, and I didn't feel faint at all! I breathed through the pain and got them done! It is quite an accomplishment from the first time I tried to do them. Just about an hour and a half later, we were done. Ron told us that the baby shoes were off, and things were going to get tougher..I asked him if we could please just get training wheel shoes or something...he just smiled again..that scary evil smile of his.
Tomorrow is a problem for me to get to training because of a conflict with Caitlyn's cheerleading, so I asked Ron what I could do at my local gym. He told me to get on the treadmill and walk for an hour. Some incline and a steady pace. That I can do.
Tomorrow I will be on my own, and the gym is open until 10:00....we'll see.....
Kelly
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