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October 01, 2004
Hell Travels In A Circle
omg. i can barely lift my arms to type this -- my whole body feels like it's been worked over by a guy named Guido with a big stick.
have any of you heard of this masochistic thing called circuit training? yeah, well, stupid me -- i had noooo idea. last week i signed up for a circuit class being offered at my gym. it's only two days a week and i figured, hey i'm in pretty good shape so, no problem. right?
heh. yeah right.
last night, Heather, my instructor said she was gonna mix it up a little and we were gonna focus on the upper body and abs. sure, no problem i said. there were 12 stations we had to work through:
1. this thing called The Plank, that's kind of like holding a push-up perfectly still.
2. bicep curls
3. overhead shoulder presses
4. lat rows
5. bench press
6. a V-sit, where you sit on the floor with your legs raised and twist your upper body side to side
7. push ups
8. this shoulder/back exercise done with a resistance band
9. ab crunches
10. lateral side lifts
11. another back exercise with a resistance band
12. a triceps exercise
you do each one of these in order for 45 to 60 seconds each, all the while there's loud music blasting and Heather yelling instruction and/or encouragement. and then you repeat it. and then again.
we did that damn circuit four times last night.
it didn't even help that Heather had AC/DC on her mix-disc. i was on my third set of push ups when Stiff Upper Lip came on, but it was all i could do to barely lift my chest off the mat. in my defense, the other two people in last nights class had to have been at least ten years younger than me and they too seemed to be struggling.
ugh. a fine way to kick off october -- excuse me, while i go look for the bottle of ibuprofen. i just hope it's not a heavy bottle.
Posted by P at October 1, 2004 05:59 AM
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~no pain no gain Pete...tipping the Guinness back has it's cost, unfortunately...~
Posted by: btezra at October 1, 2004 06:40 AM
It was the AC DC. Don't you know you gotta work out to Chingy or Ludacris or something?
Posted by: katherine at October 1, 2004 08:22 AM