It seems to me that Saturday comes faster these days. I know that I said last week was really long, but here we are on Saturday again, and it is another sleep in day. Hooray! Well, even sleeping in until 8:30 is a real treat.
The bad thing about taking a day off is the guilt of not doing ANYTHING, but the good thing is the resting and not doing ANYTHING...I know it doesn't make much sense. I have done a lot of thinking lately about the other attempts I've made at getting healthy, working out, and losing weight. I think I said this before, but really the only thing that lost weight forever was my wallet, as I have never kept off what I lost. There is one area that I constantly struggle with, and that is being selfish, and taking the time away from family and friends to get healthy. It seems that I can't have it all, and I want it all, and I have a hard time being an observer. I appreciate everyone so much, and am glad that the 10 minute car conversations are enough for now.
I ate a bowl of Raisin Bran this morning about 30 minutes before I left for my 10:00 work out. I hope that it digests really fast since I sometimes feel barfy still if we are working real hard, and I don't under any circumstances want to be....that person that threw up in the gym! There, I said it!!! You see it happen on "The Biggest Loser", and I always feel bad for that person. Thank the good Lord that there aren't cameras in the man gym!
I got to the man gym and there were two of my team members, three mentors, and an extra mentor Mom, that decided to come. I understand that she was a past HCC participant on Ron's team, and is still losing weight, and had her arm twisted by her daughter. Good Girl! The Mom and daughter had body monitors on that reqistered how many calories they burned. I want one! ANYWAY.....I got to the gym and Ron had set up a circut for us. He likes to do that and it is really not so bad. We buddy-upped and got started. We did up & down box steps, lunged, leg press machine, squats with the bar, high steps, medicine ball bounces, jogged, lunged, squat hops, lunged, jump roped, and started over. We did this four times around, adding push-ups, and then stomach work. I have to tell you right now, that we were all beat. My team mate was jumping rope and all of the sudden she started singing playground jump rope songs!!!! It absolutely slayed us, and we were laughing so hard! What a crack up. Ron was laughing this big booming laugh (not the evil smile laugh thing), that again made us laugh. It was so perfect to just fall apart over something so simple. We were almost done when Ron disappeared down this hallway, saying he would be right back. We were v-upping, and scissor kicking, and leg lifting, our hearts out, when he got back and told us were were done....except for the surprise! Now what.....
While he was gone, he had set up a final exercise for us....TRACTOR TIRES! Yes, tires...the big, heavy, full of water, black rubber, bad boys! There is a large space behind the gym that is paved, and somewhere Ron had gotten four tractor tires. We broke up into teams of four at each end of the pavement, taking turns lifting and pushing those tires. We had to squat and get ahold of the tread, then once standing, we had to really push the tires hard, to make them fall down....IT....WAS....AWESOME!!!! I felt so good when we got done. Very empowered. What a perfect way to end the hour and a half workout! Ron was pretty pleased with how we did, and said we will do that again. It was only in the mid 50's outside, but I wasn't cold, and it felt really good after working out so hard. Oh, and before I forget, the Mom and daughter each burned over 600 calories in the work out. I am seriously considering getting one of those monitors.
Sunday is the group workout....Mass is in the morning, and although I don't want to miss the class, I'm losing my balance at home...we'll see what the morning brings.
Kelly
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