Archive for July, 2009

Whichever one of you bastards invented “Plymetrics” I will personally come to your  house and wish very much harm upon you, because I am completely incapable of inflicting any myself. What sick, half mad, half insane, total lunatic developed these stretches and exercises? Within 40 minutes I felt like my entire body was beaten into a pulp, rung out, glued back together then trampled on.

And then we “cooled off” with a 3:00 jog.

I’m really, really greatful he’s doing this to help me, and I really, really want to be in shape, but I don’t think I’ve ever felt true body exhaustion like I do right now. I just have to keep pushing myself and do everything I can not to throw in the towel, because man, after today’s first glimpse on what the next 4 weeks hold, it’s tempting.

No, I can’t quit. I’ve got too much at stake now, and I’ve done pretty good so far, right? *sighs* I’m sorry guys. It’s just hard, and scary… but I think I can keep going.

Yep, I finally finished my 5 week power-training course. Yesterday was a full-body power charge (well, except for chest/back which I did on Tuesday), mixed with an “intro to Plymetrics.” Jumping jacks, sideways lunges, cardio… incredibly evil stuff. Now I know which 4 weeks I’m going to hate the most, and it’s the next ones.

We’ll be focusing on cardio, endurance and coordination. So, jump rope, running, jumping jacks, and god knows what else the evil man has in store for me. I do know that Monday after work, we’re going to buy me some better exercise shoes, so I can run and jump and stuff.

This will be brutal, I have no doubt, but hopefully this will be where I’ll see my excess weight melt right off.

Today starts my last week of muscle group training. I pulled down 100 lbs (3 sets, 9 reps) and chest pressed 110 (3 sets, 9 reps). I used 30 lb dumbells for a bench press, and managed to do TWENTY real push-ups! (Not on my knees this time!) All in all I’m very impressed with myself, things are going very well. My chest, as usual, feels like tight flaming jello.

Next week is when the brutal month starts… it’ll be actual  running, full cardio and plymetrics. Wish me luck.

Today was legs… and it was brutal. Besides using leg machines, doing squats, all that fun stuff… I started doing what I think is called “Plymetrics.” Basically, what you see football and soccer players doing, where they’re squatting and leaping and side stepping and all sorts of other crazy things.

It didn’t help that my arms are still really, REALLY sore from yesterday, but now my legs match. So, while I have to do cardio and a bit of abs this weekend (homework), I think I’ll be taking it slightly easy on myself as I feel like one big lump of jello.

This is all training, of course. After 1 more week of heavy weights, we’re going into a heavy 4/5-week period of cardio/plymetrics mostly, so it’ll just be crazy workout after crazy workout, in the hopes of boosting endurance and agility, and burning fat.

I’m really excited about the results, but… to be honest, not quite looking forward to these upcoming weeks in the dead of summer.

That doesn’t sound encouraging, does it.

Well, I did cardio yesterday, go me! It’s always hardest to do cardio. I know I’m going to say what everyone always says; I have no desire to go to the gym until I’m already there, then I feel great and wonder why I don’t go. Yep, I have that same problem. When my PT is making me go, sure, it’s easy. When it’s just me by myself, I still massively struggle with the willpower to do it.

Today was arms. I think this was the most intense workout I’ve ever had. PT was relentless, and I had muscle failure through the entire thing. However, my arms feel like solid rocks (except I can’t really feel them, nor to they move much; typing kinda hurs) and I CURLED 25 LBS WITH EACH ARM. EIGHT TIMES. 3 SETS. I can’t believe the progress. I started on 5 lb dumbells… and now I can curl 25 lbs multiple times. It’s such an amazing, and uplifting feeling to look in the mirror and see myself doing that.

The biggest encouragement I can offer people is that when you see yourself doing things you couldn’t do just a little bit ago, it literally fuels you to keep going. The entire rest of the workout, no matter how hard it got, I kept telling myself “Man, I just fucking CURLED 25 LBS.” And sure enough, I was able to keep going.

Thanks again everyone for reading this!