Five @ The Factory.

Day Five. Five exercises. Elliptical Trainer: 15 minutes at the beginning (ends in 5); 10 minutes at the end (multiple of 5): Total, 25 minutes Leg Lifts with a Ball, slowly:  10/10/10 (multiples of 5) Hip/Back Stretch with Leg Drop: Just 2, but for 50 seconds per side. Cat/Cow Stretch alternating with Upward Dog: 10 [...]

Day Four. Where optimism starts.

Day Four. The big day. The first time in weeks that I would actually hold a dumbbell. Ooh, the anticipation… Truthfully, I was a little bit excited. Yes, I’m a geek. I headed to The Factory, reviewing my plan in my head:  No more than 50 minutes weight-training. Baby-weights. Teeny-tiny baby weights… Only chest and shoulders. [...]

Little tiny baby steps.

It was a very tentative me who approached the gym for Day One of “Training On My Own” (subtitle: with a back injury). So tentative in fact, that I decided that 15 minutes on the step mill would be my entire workout. Yeah, my entire workout. At Level 4. And still, I was worried… But [...]

It was fun. Until it wasn’t.

Tonight, I joined Jae and Matthew in their training session with Mike at Snap Fitness. It was fun. Mike had them training chest, arms and core, but I’d just trained chest on Monday (Jae, where were you?), so he had me train legs and back. It was fun. Afterward, we chatted for a bit. It [...]

HIIT. Pitches. Cardio and The Rangers. Man, I love Texas.

So here I sit, post-cardio, rosy-cheeked and adrenalin-happy, watching Cliff Lee stymie Tampa Bay. All is right with my world. I had a great workout again tonight, extending the HIIT portion to just over 20 minutes of my 30-minute cardio session, and running at 8 and 9 mph. That’s my best effort in a very [...]

Homeless. But Certainly Not Gymless…

So. Back in Texas. Back at home. But certainly, not back to normal… whatever normal is these days, anyway… I have to admit to feeling just a little weird in the gym since I’ve returned. Or actually, the GYMS, plural, since I have been spending some time at both The Factory and Snap Fitness – [...]

Back in Texas. Back in The Factory. Thursday October 7.

Monday and Tuesday, I was swamped with jobs that needed to be taken care of before I headed back to Texas. Wednesday was my travel day, and so it wasn’t until today that I actually managed a workout. I did it back at The Factory because Michael has gone to New Orleans for his birthday [...]

Sunday October 2. All by myself… literally.

Arnprior yet again. And an eerie feeling to use a 24 hour access card to let myself into a totally empty gym… change my clothes in a totally empty locker room… and start my workout in a totally empty room. Not so much as an attendant… By the time I left, though, there were other [...]

Yet another new gym. And a personal best. October 1st.

On Thursday, I noticed a sign posted at the front desk announcing that Ultimate Fitness would be closed from Friday until Monday, at which time it would reopen in a new location. In the interim, members could use the Ultimate Fitness gym in Arnprior, a twenty-five minute drive down the valley from Renfrew. Sigh. But [...]

September 21 to September 30. Catch Up.

On Tuesday, September 21, I managed a cardio session during a break from Hospice. I left my mom with both of my aunts, (her sisters), and my cousin, and headed to the gym for a quick 45 minutes. Afterward, I went back to Mom’s to feed the cats, then returned to Hospice. One of my [...]