Born Again Gym Rat: So What If I Look Silly

Thursday, October 23, 2014

So What If I Look Silly

It was pouring buckets so I drove my son to the school bus stop this morning, which meant I had to have all my gym gear in my car and I hadn't enough time to scarf down my oatmeal breakfast. Because I'm still fighting a minor head cold, I drop my cardio a little again and hope to get on the Smith. But it's occupied and I'm impatient so I resign myself to the Body Weight Workout, my Plan B. Push Ups aren't too bad, but dang those Hammer Grip Pull Ups. By the last few reps of the third set, I'm only able to get my lower lip to the bar... close enough to my chin so I'm counting them.

Everything else was fairly routine although I did my ab work before finishing my cardio only because all the Precors (there's only 4 of them) were busy and I wasn't game for another session on the LifeFitness cross-trainers. Something about its glide motion puts a lot of stress on my right ankle and heel. And I've been upping the reps on the Dive Bomber Push Ups. Because, WTH, why not if I can?

When I first entered the gym, I saw one of gym staffers on the Nexersys machine, using big pillowy boxing gloves. Later I ask her how she liked them. "They're great. I don't have to wrap or tape my hands when I use them." Hmmmm. I have a pair of super huge black kickboxing gloves I got from the local tae kwon do school when my husband and son were students there. They're so big that they come half way up my forearms. But they might afford my boney knuckles more protection, so I'm poised to give them a try no matter how silly I look tomorrow.

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