I joined a Gym April 8th, one of my goals for 2010 is to be healthier and since walking my dog doesn’t really produce sweat, I needed to take things up a notch. It’s not a fancy gym, but it has flexible hours and is close to my home. The other plus is a good friend of mine is also a member and we have an exercise pact for the next 180 days with great rewards to incent us to make this part of our day-to-day lifestyle. We are going to both work out 5 days a week, three of those days together.
When I signed up I purchased some trainer sessions and my friend also has some, so we are seeing the trainer 30 minutes a time at least 1 to 2 times a week. Monday, April 12th was our first day, so 10 minutes of cardio warm up, then 30 minutes of strength training and finally finish off with 20 to 30 minutes of cardio.
I was all pumped and felt great after the first 10 minutes of cardio and then the strength training with the trainer, after 5 minutes of doing squats and these leg press things, I was like what am I thinking. Then we moved over to the arm press machine and then vertical push up downs and 15 jumping jacks. I thought I was going to barf, I am is such bad shape. We finished off with some lunges and then some curls and bicep back things. I worked up a sweat and my legs and arms were tingling and burning.
The week progressed with day 2, day 3 and then day 4 at the gym. I did a mile in 20 minutes on the tread, my goal is to get to 15 min mile. Today was day 4 and we worked out with the trainer. It was pretty intense and one of my goals is to not only get really good with the work out but remember the names of each thing. Anyway, about 1/2 through I started to feel like I was going to barf again, those inverted push down things get me I think. Anyway, I excused myself to the restroom and actually did throw up. I felt tons better afterwards. New goal, not to even feel like barfing., let alone have it actually happen. I am going to make my trainer feel bad.
So tomorrow is day 5, cardio day…. then Monday kicks off a new week. It’s really hard and each day I feel better and I know after more practice and working at it I will be do better at executing the exercises. Sometimes I feel like I am going to fall over, I am not only out of shape but have no sense of balance and I am klutz.
So what is your work out process and do you remember your first time exercising?
Tiffany
