Saturday, February 09, 2008
MUSCLING IN
No one has asked how my new gym routine is doing.
But if they did I would tell them that it and I are doing great together.
I am now in my 6th week or something.
It is a routine now. Not something that I have to think every move out about.
I get up, I do my morning stuff (read a bit, meditate, gear up, eat a fruit/yogurt mix or apple sauce) and then I am off.
It's a 12 minute drive to the gym. Out of the Jeep and into the gym and onto the bike (two days a week) or treadmill (3 days) for half an hour.
Then I go do my programmed weight work for the day (GymAmerica) (4 days) which is gradually programmed to increase the range of difficulty.
I can see and feel results of the weight work already but you probably can't.
The half hour cardio is OK. I was worried I would bore out. But we have CNN with closed caption (so lame) and music videos which do change. When I first went there I thought they were on the same routine week after week. No.
Some more guys have shown up that I know. I even like some of them.
The best thing that has happened is that a close friend joins me for the cardio part three days a week.
He is a cab dispatcher on the night shift and can do it from the treadmill.
A little weird to have him stop talking to me and answering the phone on his ear but it is good to have the company.
I am incorporating stretches now. I was beginning with the old shin-splint thing—a warning sign.
So I am happy in the new regimen. It takes about the same time as the old outdoor biking did.
Oddly, I do not miss the bike rides as I thought I would.
I remember that when I stopped running, I ached to get back to it. Even now, when I see a runner I can get all into the mental condition of it. I sort of enter their body for a moment.
Not so with biking.
I was ready to drop out of it. And I did.
Something quite as good now and mostly interesting.
