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. 

I put my stuff in the pigeon hole things, fill up my drink bottle and I’m set to go … that is until I see this person with Roger, who in my opinion resembles the MITRE 10 man … well maybe not quite, but I think you know what I mean … except that this chap is happy, he’s even smiling!  I feel like saying HELLO, we’re at the gym – you obviously haven’t done enough if you’re smiling!  THEN … Roger (my PT) says to me, this chap was “shadowing” him today … not entirely sure that’s the word I’d use to describe him but anyway ….

Now mums, some of you will identify with this.  Remember those times when you are pregnant and your midwife says to you “is it okay if my student” sits in on this too … sometimes, it’s like OH YEAH sure but others it’s like … you have got to be KIDDING, I’m not going to bare all to yet another person.  Well right about the moment Roger says the Mitre 10 man is “SHADOWING” him, I’m starting to think, you have got to be kidding and then wishing like mad I hadn’t worn the tight fitting top … eeww, Roger’s had time to adjust his eyesight to this look … Mitre 10 man hasn’t!

Somehow this completely throws my SBW skills off balance in the boxing thing … couldn’t quite get the rhythm going.  Once I ACCIDENTLY missed the target and Mitre 10 man suggests I should aim for Rogers head … little does he know huh.

Finally finished this routine, all of us still alive, and we move around the other STUFF.  While doing these activities, I realise there is one thing worse than having one personal trainer pushing me while I’m “working out” .. and that’s HAVING TWO personal trainers push you to go harder.  AND to top it all off, it seems the Mitre 10 man is a comedian too … perfect.  So I have one PT who is a comedian and can’t count properly and for this day another PT who is “shadowing”, is a comedian and who is struggling to come to terms with weight … and doesn’t have a clue about what I CAN and CAN’T lift.  About the time the two of them suggest putting more weight on the  things, is about the time my LAST bit of dignity flies out the window … just like the times when you’re about to push the baby out and you couldn’t CARE who sees what, just get the blimen thing OUT – well I’m thinking, I don’t care who sees me NOW, just lift the blimen weight, achieve something!

Tried out some new machine in this session, I’m so traumatised by it I can’t remember what it was called. I seem to remember Roger calling it “WISH” or something like that … I can see why, I was wishing like mad I’d never been introduced to this machine, especially not in my super tight top … am thankful that we’re not facing the MIRRORS, until I realise that we’re facing the WINDOWS … perfect again.  Yet another activity that’s not the most ladylike activity and there I am doing it for all to see … right about now there’s a few other things I’m “WISHING” …

My PT hasn’t quite got the hang of the active rest activity yet either, he still doesn’t run and get the ball after I’ve released it … shame really because with the Mitre 10 man shadowing him in this session, I could have swung two ball things in the air, and had double the rest while the both of them ran to retrieve them.

So all up, it was an interesting session.  I seemed to work a bit more on the weight side of things today - and it was HARD … but I have noticed that I’m not quite the weakling I was a few weeks ago … small steps.  Roger is always nice (kinda) and surprisingly I even coped with Mitre 10 man adding the odd bit of encouragement (apart from those times in my head where I was thinking … shut up!)

Last week I did a 10km walk with my son … well it would have been with my son if he hadn’t RUN the whole way.  A few weeks ago, I wouldn’t have WALKED to the letterbox – so for me this was an achievement … I even managed to pass a few people on my walk (the fact that they were 12 months old and just learning to walk doesn’t matter).

My food diary has gone to the pack in the last couple of days, but I’m back on track tomorrow and am expecting good things.  I lost a bit of confidence half way through the week when faced with what could have been a serious health problem … however, I’m back … and focussed more than ever.