excess baggage

ouch my triceps!

Yesterday I arrived home to find waiting for me my new GoFit Ultimate Pro Gym w/Workout DVD waiting for me, freshly delivered. I hurried inside and very carefully opened the sealed cardboard box, tearing at the seals with my house key.

Inside I found a bag of goodies: 3 resistance bands of varying strengths, handles, ankle braces, a handy door anchor, and a workout-training DVD. After about fifteen minutes of trying to figure out how to connect the bands and how to install the door anchor (I'm a tad slow, you see), I was up and toning the shit outta my arms and shoulders.

I was surprised by how much of a workout I really got. I only spent maybe fifteen or twenty minutes carefully, though probably imprecicely straining muscles I rarely use - and yet I was working up a sweat! When I completed the "Day 1" program (of which I was only able to do a few of the repetitions convincingly), I stepped reluctantly onto the treadmill for a half-hour walk.

This is when I realized what I had done.

I occassionaly use the side-railing to support myself when I get overly-tired on the machine, and when I atempted just that this time, my arms felt wobbly, robbed of any available strength.

Doesn't that mean I was doing the strength-training correctly? I hope so. Today I can feel my triceps. I feel a very small, dull ache in those muscles, just enough to let me know that they're there... and I haven't felt that in years.

Posted by weezgrrl at March 4, 2004 04:54 PM