Good day everyone. It's another Tuesday so that means another update.
Karissa returned from vacation and today was my first workout with her in 2 weeks. As you remember, the last 4 workouts were on my own. It turns out that she had spies at the gym to ensure that I was there and working out. It sounds like there was at least 3 of them. The report was favourable, I guess, as she said that she heard good things about my workouts. I didn't even pay them to say nice things about me.
How to describe today...pure hell seems to fit. I knew it was going to be bad, but I didn't know it was going to be this bad. I am sure that it didn't help that I have been unable to really eat for the past 3 weeks. I think it's time to see the doc again. Anyway, I digress.
It started out with me doing my warm-up on the elliptical and once Karissa arrived I was ready to leave that machine behind...she had different ideas. It turns out that we were to incorporate the elliptical into the first superset. That first one consisted of 2 minutes going as fast as I could on the elliptical - I found out that they have a limit as to how fast they will go. The machine kept stopping on me once I was over 16 mph. I had to keep it below that speed. Anyway, 2 minutes is very painful. Once that exercise was complete, we moved onto squats. We kept the weight lights (95 pounds) and did that 10 times, then we did a shoulder raise/squat move while standing on the bosu ball - flat side up. Karissa wanted me to do this while standing on one leg, but that wasn't going to happen. We repeated this superset 3 times.
The second superset didn't involve legs, but it was another tough one. Another timed event (which I hate). Come to think of it, I blogged earlier about hating timed events. Maybe that's why Karissa puts them in...I have to remember that one. The timed event was one where we used resistance bands and did alternate punches using the bands as the weight. This was done for 1 minute. We found out that the band on the left was much tougher to pull than the one on the right, so my left side got really tired. The second exercise was bench press - again low weight 75 pounds (10 reps) then 24 T push-ups. The shoulders were starting to complain on this one as we completed this superset 3 times.
The last superset was another 3 hellish exercises. Again, the first one was timed. This time I had to do alternating rows with the resistance bands for one minute. After that piece of hell, it was time for 10 lat pull-downs, then finally 12 concentration curls (per side). Repeat twice more for a total of 3.
I was completely done at the end of today. I had nothing left and had to rest a bit before I could even shower. It took me about 30 minutes to recover enough where I could move and get things working again. Very tough day. And from the sounds of it, Thursday is not going to be any easier.
Tomorrow, I have my first curling game of the season, so we will see if all this work is paying off. Practice on Sunday went well and I seemed to be a lot more comfortable on the ice than I usually am after returning from the off-season.
I also have some bad news for the guys reading this. Karissa is no longer single. That's right, the girl that wasn't looking for a partner has found one. He works out at the gym and is soon starting there as a trainer as well. Time will tell, but I think that she is going to be taken for a while. So, you all missed your chance. She is one very attractive and fun girl.
See you Thursday.
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