gym culture

on saturday, i entered new gym status. i worked out with a trainer. oh yes - you heard me right. a trainer. at VRC, having a meeting with a trainer is free so you sign up, you have the initial meeting where they meet you and ask you a bunch of questions and then they develop a workout routine for you. on saturday, i met with tammy to go ove my new routine.

well...having been a just ladies only gym member, i'm a little thrown by all the guys in the weights room. there was one woman in there. tammy had asked me if i'd rather have my workout designed for the just ladies section or the regular weights section and i said, whatever. umm...maybe i would've liked the ladies section better. on saturday when i was there, these guys working out are huge and scary. they know the machines better and what if they come up and want to use my machine? augh!

so tammy takes me around to show me the machines i'll be using and on every machine i'm changing the weigh from 235lbs to...15 lbs. i bet that starts to get you down after awhile. but i learned a lot things. for example, i've never been keeping my wrists straight when working with weights! who knew i was bending them? and then as tammy's about to show me this squat machine, she asks me to do a squat and i do. she's like, "oh no no. stop." umm, i gues i was doing something wrong. so she tells me to do another one. same reaction. "oh - i guess we better not use this machine actually" she says. haha. i got demoted to an easier squat machine. but she says my lunges are beautiful.

so my "program" includes a one day arms and core workout and then the next day legs and core workout to be done about 4 times a week. PLUS 4-5 times a week, i should be doing 60 minutes of cardio. what? who has the time for all this? well...i do right now...but that's not the point. it's no wonder these guys at the gym are crazy huge - it's because it's all they must do. work and workout. so sure, i can maybe make this happen for the next free 4 weeks of summer but then what?

i guess we'll see. i'm doing my first arm workout today. i'm going to be hurting.