By which I mean the guy that created the "Mormons Exposed" calendar, who was just excommunicated from the LDS church. This means he is bahleeted from Eternal Mormon Heaven. Which... do you want to spend an eternity canning fruit and drinking Mormon Champagne? (Ginger ale and apple juice) What this means is that I want to strike while the iron is hot, even though something isn't finished. Translation: I want to start posting my Mormon Missionary story based on two of the guys from that calendar, Brandon and Austin, even though I've not finished the last two chapters. That's bad, though, huh? Hmmm. (The calendar's website is currently down, incidentally.)
In other news, I will never ever EVER tell a personal trainer that I think I'm "pretty fit." I had my first session yesterday morning (Jess? I had a new guy due to that last experience - he's AWESOME) and I'm still feeling it. Which is good. (Weird thing about me: I love to hurt from physical activity. It means I did something, if that makes sense.) I was laughing at myself about halfway through because of how much my quads have atrophied due to knee injuries/surgery. I've not been able to do leg extensions or squats in over seven years due to injuries, etc. He had me up on a bosu ball doing squats. HAHAHA. Um, yeah. That ball bounced like Michael Jordan was dribbling it. My upper body was pretty strong, he said, so I didn't have to be completely humiliated, so.
Remember in grade school (for US kids) when they had you do the arm hang to see how strong you were? And most of the kids' arms bounced around until they inevitably dropped back to the ground? That's what my legs were doing. I was SO GLAD that I had told my trainer how I'm really getting fit again, and I just want to "tighten and tone." Riiiiiiiight. Um, and get strong, apparently. (In my defense, my brute strength muscles are strong - it's my stabilizer muscles that need training. Um, yeah. Let's stick with that. Today is a pure cardio and swim day, no weights.
And maybe a trip to Sonic for a shake. <-- so dedicated!!! (OH! Yesterday was a birthday that I missed, and I feel terrible about it:
floweringjudas, I'm so sorry you had such a crappy birthday. I would have taken you out for a meal and laughed at our goofy families with you. :( Why is everyone having bad summer birthdays? This does not bode well for mine in a few weeks... *does some happy mojo*)
In other news, I will never ever EVER tell a personal trainer that I think I'm "pretty fit." I had my first session yesterday morning (Jess? I had a new guy due to that last experience - he's AWESOME) and I'm still feeling it. Which is good. (Weird thing about me: I love to hurt from physical activity. It means I did something, if that makes sense.) I was laughing at myself about halfway through because of how much my quads have atrophied due to knee injuries/surgery. I've not been able to do leg extensions or squats in over seven years due to injuries, etc. He had me up on a bosu ball doing squats. HAHAHA. Um, yeah. That ball bounced like Michael Jordan was dribbling it. My upper body was pretty strong, he said, so I didn't have to be completely humiliated, so.
Remember in grade school (for US kids) when they had you do the arm hang to see how strong you were? And most of the kids' arms bounced around until they inevitably dropped back to the ground? That's what my legs were doing. I was SO GLAD that I had told my trainer how I'm really getting fit again, and I just want to "tighten and tone." Riiiiiiiight. Um, and get strong, apparently. (In my defense, my brute strength muscles are strong - it's my stabilizer muscles that need training. Um, yeah. Let's stick with that. Today is a pure cardio and swim day, no weights.
And maybe a trip to Sonic for a shake. <-- so dedicated!!! (OH! Yesterday was a birthday that I missed, and I feel terrible about it:
floweringjudas, I'm so sorry you had such a crappy birthday. I would have taken you out for a meal and laughed at our goofy families with you. :( Why is everyone having bad summer birthdays? This does not bode well for mine in a few weeks... *does some happy mojo*)- Spock is::
sore
'Oos dis bint, then?
- stoney321
- Laura Stone
- Hey, Don't Judge Me
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i too, love that post work-out soreness. it takes me to my happy place.
He had me balance on one leg and squat down and touch the floor, then do that with weights, then use a ball to do squats, then get up on the bosu ball and do all of that there. (Also with planks, and arm workouts and sit ups on a ball.)
He's creating a workout to get my knees back in shape and kept telling me to not push it - I wanted to do a few more of each exercise because I'm stubborn. (I think I'm a change from his usual clients who whine and have to be pushed. I'm crazy motivated!)
And just like you, I loooove to be sore from hard exercise. I get itchy when I'm too sedentary. How are things with you and your gym? *goes to read your last post*
One-legged squats are *fierce* good for you! We don't have a bosu ball at the Y, and I imagine that even if we did I'd never be able to get people on them. I've reached a stage in both teaching and my own fitness level where I'm getting more and more frustrated with group exercise. The regulars
don'twon't push themselves. They whine and complain - sometimes in good fun and to support each other through the hard parts - but MOSTLY because it's hard and they don't really want to do it.This one lady, she's been taking the Tues/Thursday 4:30 weight lifting since it started 3 years ago. She's still using 4, 5, 6 as her light, medium, and heavy weights. It ENRAGES me. <-- not an exaggeration. I'm squatting with 30 pounds and she's squatting WITHOUT ANY WEIGHTS AT ALL.
I keep saying, with a smile and a wink 'cause that's what you have to do to NOT piss people off and encourage them to come back,
if you aren't *struggling* to get out those last 3 with perfect form, you're wasting your time. Yes, you may be burning calories, but you aren't building muscle. If you don't build muscle, you can't burn more calories. So push yourself! Get a little sore!
And still, they put down the weights for squats/lunges and don't pick up anything heavier than they've ALWAYS used.
I can't wait to get my personal trainer certification. And then possibly a client or two like YOU who wants to be pushed. Who wants to use their body for what it's intended for. It's a fucking machine. It's supposed to work.
::tears out hair::
er.
sorry for the rant.
Also? I'm extremely interested in how he helps rehab your knee so any blogging you do on this will have my full and undivided attention, and if you wanted to go more in-depth I'm all eyes and ears.
It's like they cant the cache of saying they're with a trainer without having to do the actual work. is the 4-6 lb. weight lady under the impression that she'll "beef up" if she uses heavier weights? moron. Women don't beef up like that unless they're on 'roids.
And dude: I want Linda Hamilton arms. I watched Terminator 2 the other day - when she's doing pull ups off her bed? Awesome.
My trainer said before hand that he was working with me as a favor (my guy wasn't available) and that he didn't have any more space to take on new clients. After one workout, he said he'd make room. :D I told him that he wouldn't be able to push me hard enough, that I wanted to feel like I just enlisted in the Army. Haha, I gave him permission to call me "Maggot." :D
As for the rehab stuff, I'll def. keep you posted on any new exercises he gives me. Another thing he had me do were step-ups. Not only was I to concentrate on lifting off with my hamstrings (not my calf on the opposite leg) I was to bring up the other leg into a 90 degree bend, then slowly lower back down, again concentrating on my hamstring doing the work, not my weight naturally bringing me back to the floor.
20 of those on each side, then back to situps, then back to do 20 more with 10 pound weights. I see my trainer again in a few days and he's adding four more routines, so I'll keep you posted.
Funny how suddenly there's room when he has a client that's *willing* to work. *g*
I don't know what that ladies deal is. We tell them they won't beef up, magazine say it, she'd have to be beyond stupid to think that [and even if it *were* possible she's one of those ladies that's about 5'9" and weighs approx. 125 pounds, she's *tiny* there's nothing there to bulk in the first place]. I guess the one positive is she's faithful?
J [the instructor I spar with] has a zen attitude about it and talks me down off the high place when I need it. Of course she's been doing it longer and gave up on her ideals long ago *g*.
I think -- these people come to the Y, they see their friends, they move a little, sometimes they actually sweat, and then they go home. I have to keep in mind for them, they're just glad they're not sitting in front of the tv eating chips and cookies.
Most people who really *work* at it are in training for something. Whether it's an event like a class reunion, a wedding, or a beach vacation or an event like a race or a walk a thon or something. I've learned that very few people who work out that AREN'T athletes are working for something other than weight loss.
I do not consider myself an athlete. I never have and most likely never will. I don't do sports. So that makes it more difficult to figure out how to train [you can't cut your time if you don't do something that has a time] or how to judge goals and different fitness levels. I don't like to do solo stuff, so I'm having to learn how to incorporate higher intensity and difficult within the group exercise format and it's annoying and stupid and frustrating and makes me think I should throw in the towel and learn to love running or something.
/dumping on stoney first thing in the morning
I'm sorry it's been frustrating for you. Honestly, when I read your posts, you get me geared up because I can hear how hard you're working. it's very inspiring. *hugs*
I just needed to vent. Generally I don't find it frustrating but lately it has been. I need to just do something else during the things that annoy me so badly. Taking myself off the roster for teaching weight lifting will help immensely.
Ha ha, although it was pretty funny, me walking down the stairs after our workout to head to the locker room. My legs were weak as kittens. I don't know when I've gripped a handrail so tightly in my life... :D
You know how people say to keep church and state separate? I would like to keep church and my undergarments separate.
...there's no question as to why I'm no longer Mormon, right? *G*
Oh and good luck with the trainer! Sounds like you are having fun with that!
The trainer sounds like he's going to really put you through your paces. You are going to be cut. *looks at squishy middle and goes on a walk*
And wow for the Bosu squats. Just... wow. My balance is not so good, I don't know if I could stay on the thing with it upside down like that.
Sal, my squats were NOT pretty at all. I was laughing so hard, I almost fell off the ball from that. The platform was rocking side to side and bouncing up and down like crazy. But! I did 20, so, I feel good about that, even though they were not... text book. :D
...until the calendar was a big hit and made the national news. *G*
These are the questions that consume me.
So, you know. No pressure.
I left perfection back at Albuquerque and am content to settle for funny with a dash of compassion.
YAY for the calendar guy being exed, now he can have MOAR FUNS. And SIT AT THE COOL TABLE WITH THE REST OF US.