It's 5:14am. I've been awake since 3am and couldn't get back to sleep, so.... I'm going to the gym for the first time! There is a circuit class at 0605, so I am going to that. I think. Or maybe I'll just go to the gym to suss it out. Either way I am GOING.
Update: It's now 7:12am and I am back from the gym,eating my protein-rich brekkie. It was both better and worse than I thought. Worse because oh my god, I am SO unfit and could barely do any of the things they were doing. Better because there was a lovely, lovely girl who came up to me, said hi and told me it would be OK. She said she had joined a year ago at 120kgs and now she had won the gym's Body For Life challenge. She also helped me out on some of the trickier moves and gave me little tips to get through it. Thankyou so much, nameless blonde. It's because of you that I will go back again.
The circuit class I did was 45 minutes long, and at the 20 minute mark, I was totally ready to leave. I was hot, sweaty, my pulse was at 160 (not that bad, considering how I felt and that my maximum heart rate is 196) and my muscles were totally fatiguing. But I stayed, and I adapted the moves I couldn't do to ones I could. I made it!
On Thursday I am going to an orientation (because I'm backwards that way) at 10:30, so I can learn to use the machines and things and not look like a doofus falling off the treadmill. Also so I can use the gym for things other than classes. Their timetable is not really convenient to me - most classes I want to do are at 6:05am, and at that time I am either sleeping or at work. Never mind, I can still do them occasionally.
Now I am exhausted and I still have to go to work this arvo.
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I found myself checking back on old posts and came across a message from you and thought I'd stop by to see if you were still going. Glad to see you are still in Blogland. Now to catch up with some of your recent posts.......
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