Well phooey. I got to the gym a little early this afternoon and walked on the treadmill for 20 minutes before the Hip Hop Hustle class. I also found out in class today that the instructor is taking the summer off and none of the other instructors at the gym want to teach a late afternoon (5:45 class) on Fridays, so the Hip Hop Hustle class is on ( Read more... )

This past Sunday, I signed up for the Rowing class at the gym, which was 45 minutes. There were a few breaks thrown in to give us a chance to stretch out various muscles, and boy-howdy was I sore the next day. Fortunately, I wasn't the only beginner, but it was good to learn the proper technique for the rowing machines ( Read more... )

Just FYI, the Week 20 poll is still up over at therealljidol. You can find it HERE. You need to be a community member to vote this week, and voting closes tonight at 7pm EDT. The bottom two vote getters in each poll are going home. On the plus side, I'm in tribe 1 (the large tribe). On the negative side, I'm perilously close to the bottom. So if you'd ( Read more... )

I'm tuckered, so this'll hopefully be brief ( Read more... )

Woke up at 7am, had my initial fitness assessment (Mary, the woman who typically does them, was out of town until late last night) done. I got weighed when I got here, but Mary made me do a 3-minute step test to check my recovery heart rate (ie: get the heart rate up, then when the 3 minutes are up, she tests my heart rate for 1 minute to see ( Read more... )

Arrived at Rancho Cortez (aka the Fitness Ranch) around 5pm yesterday, thanks to Ma and Pa 'kin picking me up at the airport in San Antonio and driving me out here. They'd originally put me all alone in a cabin that was like a mobile home, and could house about 6 people in it. Apparently, though, it hadn't been cleaned recently - there were piles ( Read more... )

So I went to the gym this afternoon, and had a session with my personal torturer taskmaster trainer, Kelly. I warmed up by doing a lap around the track, then she'd show me how to use each various machines, and I'd get to do a set of 12 reps on each one. She'd mark down the weight that I used on each machine so that I'd know where to set it the ( Read more... )

Coincidentally, my gym called me up yesterday to see if I wanted to speak with a personal trainer (you know, as in "You haven't been to the gym in months, would you like to start coming back and have someone here show you the ropes again?") sort of thing ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm apparently in slug-mode today, as I'm still at home. I'm thinking maybe I'll go to the gym *tomorrow*. Yeah, I'll do that ( Read more... )

It's been too long since I've been to the gym. I didn't go at all in May, and I don't think I went at all in April. Fortunately, those were my two "free" (as in no membership fee) months ( Read more... )