The gym I frequent is a large facility, on the main floor is:
two indoor pools (plus an outdoor pool), two hot tubs, locker rooms, two basketball
gyms, God only knows how many tennis courts (cost extra, so I don’t go in
there), a climbing wall, a café, and the list goes on. The second floor is where I love to go (partly
because kids aren’t permitted up there), it has the cardio equipment, the
weights, the yoga room, and all sorts of other stuff. As I have been walking in the pool I keep
looking up and I see people working out on the second floor and I want to go up
there. I gave it a shot last week and
man did I screw up! I wasn’t even ready
for the recumbent bike! I was hurting so
bad it wasn’t even funny. Today I
decided I would brave the upstairs again, I managed to get a full 35 minutes
in. Ok, the pain started about 15 minutes, but it didn’t get too bad. By the
time I got off it was around a 4 (last week I hit 10 without any
question).
After my enjoyable time on the bike (I broke a sweat, I was
so happy), I wondered down to the pool.
Once again I did my five laps walking followed by five laps
swimming. I did 6 rounds of that, and
then I did 15 more laps of different exercises.
By the time I got out my pain level
was about a 5, so overall I was feeling ok.
I had to run a few errands with minion #2 after my gym time and my body
made it clear it was time to stop and go home.
This is a HUGE improvement from two weeks ago. I am still nowhere near where I need to be
let alone where I want to be, but it is just a matter of taking baby steps and
listening to my body.
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