Gym

Surprise, surprise, surprise!  I found myself at the gym today and I survived cardio and weights.  Thank goodness for coworker/friend who joined me at the gym today for an evening of exercise.  I am pretty sure we looked like fish out of water; however, there were friendly folks around to help us and cheer us on hands on and silently with their smiles of enthusiasm for us.  I am also pretty sure, we were pretty entertaining as we tried to figure out how to makes things GO or how to operate a piece of machinery.  I can recall struggling with a weight and asking Cole "Weight on this?" she said, "5 lbs."  I said while struggling, "I think I need to go lower".  In her most kind hearted voice she said, "Um, it doesn't go any lower".  Sometimes we even found ourselves laughing at ourselves and each other after only two minutes into our workout and finding a rather quick level of difficulty which made us want to scramble to something less difficult.  The only problem with that is that we quickly discovered, exercise is probably not meant to be easy or less difficult.  I say with great pride, we never gave up; huffing and puffing on to the next piece of machinery, we never gave up.  Just 25 minutes, just 15 more minutes, we're almost there, just 10 more minutes.  Yet the closer we got to the marker we would even push ourselves harder the last 30 or even 60 seconds.  Push it, push it, Turbo and Boom! We would reach or time, jump off with wobbly legs and rather than quit, we would move on to the next exercise.  Initially, an hour seemed like way to long yet near the end, that hour moved much faster than I had thought it would.

I'm still not a gym rock star but I feel like I accomplished something pretty significant today.  I certainly feel better about myself then I did only 3 days ago.  This is my third day of exercise and I can honestly say I am looking forward to my walking exercise on Wed.  I've decided, M,W,F will be for video exercises at home.  Tues and Thurs will be for the gym and weight training and Sat and Su will be for yoga.  I think that should do it for now. 

If I sound excited its probably because I am.  I find it a bit puzzling since only three days ago I hated the thought of exercise getting in the way of my day.  Yet here I am only three days later and I feel pretty happy and now even have a plan in place.  That's a big wow for me and I thank my dear friend for joining me tonight.  I know every workout wont be a happy one but I do think it will always leave me with a feeling of accomplishment because I know where I started and how I felt on day one...so anything else would most likely be an improvement.

Boom!