Tales of a gym newbie - the second visit

While it is easier to start getting in fit in summer than in winter, starting gym in the same week as Christmas and the festive season is not smart for those wanting to lose weight. 

So after our tremendous first session (all 30 minutes of wheezing heaving vomit feeling glory) we got busy with celebrating and enjoying food and wine and other good things with friends and family and didn't get around to going back for two weeks. 

But today I went back to work after a nice summer holiday on leave and so it seemed fitting to restart our new get fit endeavor.

Now I have seen all the comments on the social networks about all the crowds spoiling the gym for the few who have the habit of it by all going to gym in January. But I will not be put off... I will be in that crowd trying to be a better shaped person too.... And hopefully be there by Valentines and Easter and Winter and Spring. 

So we packed our access cars and our towels and cooled water bottles and sports bras (well just one of those) and strode purposefully into the gym trying to not look like losers. 

First up was warming up with some running. I dutifully remembered the lessons of starting Run Walk for Life and did some slow then fast then slow then faster then slightly slower then  much faster then slow down. I confess it is pretty good to get back into the running part of getting fit. 

Then we went again to the Super circuit and once more tag teamed the machines and the stair hopping ... Which lasted all of three machines cycles since stair hopping is pretty bloody hard work and your bum jiggles in front of the orbital machine-ers. 

I have a personal bane machine in the circuit. Mean Machine number 8 which is the one that makes you pull the weights down like you're a flustered chicken. I can't even do two lots of five repetitions on the smallest weight. It makes me feel quite pathetic. I'll have to confess my weakness to the excitable trainer soon to find an alternative to build up my arm strength to face the machine. 

After we did the whole circuit, we went to cool down on the orbital machine (since we started on the treadmills) except the orbital machine. Is like a run away puppy, there just isn't any going slow on it! We both kept getting error messages "heart rate is too high!!" Yeah we know, our legs are being rotated off. My personal goal now is to make it a minute going backwards while not holding one with my hands. I'll call it the Super Balance Achievement.

We promised ourselves to try again on Wednesday this week... Like two days time. Go team Frankie and MrT!