Saturday, 29 November 2008

Mr Motivator

I went to the Gym today! It's the first time I've ever been. It was a free One Day pass to the Gym where Will is already a member so he brought me along. We started off on the rowing machines. It was tough. A nice way to start though, get the arms and legs working and it tones your stomach I think.
Then we started chin ups. I'd never seen a Chin Up machine before, there were weights on it and you should be able to lift your own body weight. I did ten chin ups and when I got off, I seriously thought I was about to faint. My arms felt energyless and my head was spinning like a fucking Dradel or some shit. I took a quick breather and drank a load of Lucozade sport.
After that we moved on to weights. I have no idea what weight I lifted but they weren't that heavy. Will got me to do ten reps. The first five were piss, but as I tried to lift the sixth, I felt a huge strain. I got to ten but I was seriously dead at that point. I took a minute break and then did ten more reps. The same thing happened again - I could lift the first five no problem but the last five were tough. It happened each time I tried, so I just started doing five at a time instead of ten.
Then we did some floor excercises. I did some pull ups, but I'd never really done them properly before. I thought you literally just pull yourself up to your knees, but apparently the trick is to use your stomach to pull your face 'toward the cieling'. You don't go the full way to your knees.
I did a few of those and then some press ups. Then we did this thing called Planking, where you get into a press up position, but you hold yourself up on your knees and elbows for 30 seconds. It was fucking horrible.
Then we used the treadmills. I did a steady jog for five minutes and it was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I started to get horrible shooting pains in my chest halfway through, but they subsided quickly. I haven't breathed so easily in a long time and it felt amazing.
We did some more weights and then I spent ten minutes on a Bike machine. I worked up a fucking storm of a sweat, and then I had a lovely cool shower.
I haven't felt this great in a while! I'm totally exhausted but at least I'm starting to get fit. I'm probably gonna ache tomorrow though haha.

Not much else has been happening. My big bro Steve is coming over here for his Birthday and it's gonna be a fucking blast! He's the best fun ever so I can't wait.
I've been writing some hardcore stuff for that band I practiced with. Hopefully they'll end up sounding good and not slow and shit.

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