I finally got back to the Y to work out today. It's been a couple of weeks due to me being sick (again!), but I made it back. I thought it might be less busy on a Sunday, but there were quite a lot of people there. I really enjoy going during the week in the daytime best. The place is a mess right now because they're in the middle of remodeling different areas of the building, which will last all summer. After my initial confusion about where I was supposed to stash my stuff, I got down to business.
First, I did 10 minutes on the Cybex. This is the machine that I could maybe do 2 minutes on before I did the 10 week fitness challenge. 10 minutes was fine, I used it as a warm up.
Then I did the circuit machines. I hadn't done them since the 10 weeks, so I was curious to see what I could do. Not knowing where to start other than where I left off, I increased the weight on each one by one increment, so it depended on the machine. I then did 2 or 3 sets where before I mostly did only one. There were a couple of machines that I couldn't quite eek out all the reps on, but I definitely did more than I had before. I added a little ab work at the end.
I then moved on to my favorite elliptical machine. After first choosing one that had a broken holder which caused my water bottle to fall right through and spill half its contents on the floor, I began. I was in for a rude awakening. I have now learned that my favorite machine isn't nearly as much fun after doing the circuit, LOL. My legs were hating me. After the first 4 minutes at a lower intensity, the higher intensity 4 minutes started and I was pretty sure I was going to fall off the machine. It was SO hard. I decided I'd make it through that segment and then stop because I obviously needed to work up to it after my exercise lapse. It would have been so easy to do that. But I gave myself a little pep talk and decided I'd continue on unless I actually did fall off. When the next 'hard' segment hit, I lowered the resistance from 7 (!) to 3 so I could get through it and kept pushing through. In the end, I did the entire program - 35 minutes. I really am proud of myself for doing it! I'm really good at making excuses to quit and I didn't give in this time!
I haven't decided if I'm going again tomorrow or not. If I do, I'll just do cardio. My kids are voting to go because they like going to the child care. What do they care that mom's legs might fall off? ;-) We'll see how I feel tomorrow. I would like to get back into my M-W-F routine. Hopefully I'm done getting these persistent colds!
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