GYM-CAPADES

Ok, so I figured it was time to tell you all that my hubby (Happy) and I have joined a gym. I am loving it and I have a trainer and all!! I have a whole personal work out plan too. Now the reason I have decided to “let the cat out of the bag” is because I have a really funny story to tell you from last night.

Last night I was working on my arms and there is one exercise I have not done yet and it is called the Shoulder Press. It has weights and you have to push the handle bar up till your arms are straight up over your head while you sit in an upright position, starting from about shoulder height. Anyway, I have been doing pretty much ok so far with the weights, I don’t have to lift too much cause I am doing toning and not body building, but I lift 20, 22 and 18 kg’s so far for my arms.

So I get on this piece of equipment and set it to 20kg –“not to heavy”, I thought - I.couldn’t.budge.it. I could not even get it half way up. I was starting to sweat profusely and my face was going bright red – after just one try…!!!
"Ok" I thought, "lets try 15kg" – hmpf! No go… looking around quickly, I changed it to 10kg (the very last weight that is still marked with an amount) You guessed it, no lifty weighty…
So I set to 1kg…..yes, you read it right 1kg. It is the very first weight and it is not even marked!! And there is a little switch you can flick which adds just 2,5kg to whatever you are lifting, I had to switch it off cause I couldn’t even lift 3,5kg’s!!!!

The worst is that there are these big muscle bound guys lifting HUGE amounts all around me and I am sitting there doing my tiny little bit and my arms are turning to jelly!!
I was PRAYING that no-one would see what I was lifting – I would have been so embarrassed. And everytime I am almost finished my little set of 10 I start to get the giggles cause I cannot believe how heavy 1kg can be for my shoulders, and then I can’t finish my set…
So when I was finally finished I quickly set the weight back down to 20kg and I put the 2,5kg switch on so that whoever sat down after me would not know that I had it on 1kg.

As a result, today I am aching and sore all over - everything I pick up feels like lead - even my tea cup. And typing this post has been a small mission accomplished. 1kg, and it has almost killed me!! LOL...