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A deal is a deal


If you follow me on twitter (@fatnerdfit)you already know this, but I made good on my deal with the internet and got my butt to the gym today. It was my first visit to this location of the chain I'm a member of (and by member I mean I pay every month and then don't ever go) so I kept my glasses on so I could actually see what was going on while I did my thing. I found the locker room no problem and made sure to check out the showers and sauna for future visits then hit the floor.

Man is my butt out of shape.

I started out on the stationary bike. I chose the upright one, not the fully seated one, because I'm curious about trying a cycling class. I did two miles and my quads were throbbing. I did have it on level 7, but I'm making no excuses.

After the bike I did 100 crunches on a crunch machine of sorts. It gives you a rung to drape your legs over so you can't use your quads to help you, which was awesome. I did have to mess with my form a bit to keep myself from using the arm rests to push myself into a crunch instead of letting my abs do the work. I did my 100 in two sets of 50 with a forty second break in between sets.

After that I found the row machines, which were not the apparently old school version I was used to. This one doesn't engage your legs at all and you basically sit in a backwards chair and pull the handles. I made sure to set the machine as accurately as I could for my height and did 5 sets of 10 on both my lats and delts at 30 lbs making sure that I was feeling the right muscles doing the work.

For a cool down, because I am seriously out of shape and lack focus, I jumped on a elliptical for a quick five minutes.

Things I learned today:

1) I am way more out of shape than I allowed myself to realize
2) I lack any sort of focus when left to my own devices at a gym and I get bored
3) I should try a group class to see if I can get myself to push more because on my own I don't.
4) If I promise a bunch of strangers on the internet I'm gonna go to the gym, I go.

All in all I count this as a win and a good start.

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