Today was by far the most frustrating day at the gym, and not for the reasons that you might think.
I had a good day today with my eating including logging it in my book. I am not as sore as I was, so that is outstanding, and I was able to get around at a brisker pace than I have been. I had to be at work early so I made sure I had breakfast and my thermos of coffee mix ready to go. By coffee mix, I mean my turbinado sugar and 2% milk that I put into my coffee thermos, then add coffee to when I get to work. I usually only do this when I am running behind and haven't made coffee in the morning. I know that I need to have black coffee, but I have to wean myself off the added stuff, and I have already cut back quite a bit.
We had a team work out scheduled for 7:00 so I stayed a little later at work, then went on to the wellness center to do cardio, before the actual work out. I could warm up that way and be ready to go home after the team stuff. I get to the man gym and only the assistant trainer is there, with another mentor that I hadn't met before. My trainer, Ron, had a conflict so he couldn't come. Another member of the team showed up at about 7:10, so it was suggested that we go do cardio. I understand that things come up, but where was the rest of the team? I told them that I had already done 25 minutes on the elliptical, so the trainer said for her and I to go to the track on the second floor, while my teammate went to the treadmill with the other mentor. By the time we got to the track we had stopped to visit a couple of times and it was getting close to 7:20. I just wanted to get going so I could go home.
The indoor track is really very nice. When I was turning in my paperwork for the HCC, I drove around and around in Charleston trying to find the wellness center. I had circled the block twice and on the third time around, I looked up, and there were people running inside of what looked like a Habitrail hamster tube. Around the track is open glass so even though you are inside, you still feel like you aren't because you can look out. It is pretty cool, and six times around the track is a mile. Anyway...the trainer and I went to the track and we walked the track once, then every half lap, we jogged. I was really happy with myself because I was able to jog the half laps without having to stop. I know I didn't pull off the gazelle look, all swift and sharp, and bouncy. Mine was more like that last fat rhinoceros in the movie "Jumanji"...last one in the herd, panting hard, and trying not to fall too far behind. After that we went into the main cardio area to do the rowing machine. Now thinking back, I don't know that I ever have done the rowing machine, and the best thing about these machines is that the resistance is an enclosed paddle wheel system, that uses water. As you pull back and slide forward, it makes the sound of water rushing by. I wanted to get finished since it was about 20 minutes to 8:00 now. I strapped my feet in and rowed the best I could considering I am not used to bending like that. We did this for 10 minutes, then did some stretches to work out the kinks in my shoulders, then my trainer started talking to another assistant. Here I am stretching away, and she is gabbing away. By now it is 8:00 and my teammate left. He did 30 minutes on the treadmill, then gone, since we weren't really doing anything. I was trying to politely tell them that I wanted to get done, but they kept talking, every now and again asking me to wait so we could stretch out my back. I was getting madder and madder by the minute. I JUST wanted to go home, but I also wanted to make sure I did what was required. FINALLY I said I was going to go, and the trainers stopped talking.
It was nearly 8:20 when I got to the car, and almost 9:00 when I got home...again...
I understand that single people don't have the same mind set as married, or family people do, but enough is enough. I decided that come h**l or high water I was going to be at the team workouts. I just wish everyone felt the same.
Team work out at 10:00 tomorrow...Zumba before at 9:00 or water aerobics after at 11:00....we'll see....
Kelly
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