20 Week Challenge: WEEK ONE

So this will be a quick blog this time around, as I find myself at the end of a VERY long week with a few dramas etc., and now I’m preparing to head away for the weekend to do something I said I wasn’t going to do this week … man I suck at giving up bowls!  Still this could be a one off … as I’m more focussed on this whole gym/fitness/food thing for the coming year … and in particular THE 20 WEEK CHALLENGE!

So this week I excitedly (yeah right … another Tui ad) set off for my session with my PT (am actually starting to feel pretty cool with this term – it’s becoming more than an act!).  Had a slight dilemma because my bright blue top, the one that matches my SBW boxing gloves, seems to have stretched and is now hindering my efforts at all sorts of unladylike things.  So, today I’m wearing my very TIGHT fitting top – one of those ones that I think REAL gym people wear – but it’s okay I tell myself, I’ll be fine. 

My new look ...

It’s been a few days since I’ve written a few words about my mid-life crisis … oops I mean … actually I haven’t got a clue WHAT to call these random acts of madness that I’m currently on.  What I do KNOW is that it’s making a HUGE difference to my life in how I feel and how I COPE with life, including my relationships with others and with FOOD!  I’m getting up at stupidly ridiculous times of the day to EXERCISE (sometimes I go completely overboard on this) and yet I still have ENERGY for the day!

I left Lark in the Park the other day feeling a bit GRUMPY … I miss the park!  However, there I was back at the gym, in a circle with about 15 other people trotting between different activities … well it was more like sprinting between activities because the PT (personal trainer for those not quite up with the slang) hasn’t got his TIMER set properly … then he finds it’s amusing to leave us doing DOUBLE UP rounds on some activities – I’m blessed so much that mine is STEP UPS, my favourite NOT.  The other activity that I find odd is when you’re lying on the GROUND doing some sort of movement that resembles the DEAD ANT game I used to play when I was FIVE.  About now, Roger the PT (I have come up with other meanings about now for PT, but can’t print them) suggests a CAMERA might be good … he laughs when I say NOT FUNNY … but I’m serious … IT’S NOT FUNNY.

Circus??

Gym day today, so after I’d done what felt like a day’s work already, I arrived at Snap Fitness all psyched up to meet with my Personal Trainer (yep, I’m still feeling pretty cool about this and one day hopefully I’ll look cool too). As I waited for the door to click to let me in, I suddenly realised that the top I was wearing was, although very sporty (and it shows my tattoo very well) and even though I feel a lot slimmer in it that I actually am … was just a little too fitting for the gym (at the moment), there was no way it was going to cover ANYTHING once I got going … so rush back to the car to get a different t-shirt … BUT it’s okay … cause this one MATCHES the boxing gloves that I’m coming to LOVE.

 

The trainer seemed excited to see me, I guess EVERYONE needs a bit of comedy in their lives and I guess it’s my calling to provide it at the moment.  Started off with the boxing thing, all bar the fact that it hurts my arms to reach up when he moves the targets higher … and I think it’s SERIOUSLY mean of him to do that, I did okay at this.  The WHOLE bringing my knees up to reach the target really isn’t so flash either, all the bits that I’m trying to hide wobble (and seriously about now the sports bra isn’t doing such a great job either) … however, looking at the bigger picture (ie that I make a bigger fool of myself in other activities) I’m doing okay at this .. even getting faster … MAYBE.