Not very knackered

I had planned the Thursday night gym session to be a killer, I wanted to be aching at this moment and to really know that I deserved this rest day. However, despite my best efforts, I feel no activity aches.

I arrived at the gym at the usual time of about ten past five. Met up with Nigel (he had a rare day off) and set to the machines. I joined Nigel on the rowing machines first to work that group of muscles, it also seems a decent way to warm up for other higher impact machines. I set the resistance level to 3 because although my shoulder is feeling okay, I didn’t want to aggravate it, and rowed on for 15 minutes. Nigel was set to level 7 and pressed on for a further five minutes.

Nigel ended the 20 minutes rowing with a bit of a surge, and as long as he has that amount of effort left spare at the end of the DW, I’ll be able to sit there and sleep for the final few miles.

Feeling pretty knackered by now I then headed off to the cross trainer. 20 minutes, interval work, level 8. It was hard work, especially on my iPod as it started to play the opening bar of each track before skipping onto the next. I think sweat was starting to get into the inners of that seemingly impregnable case.

Meanwhile Nigel worked his way around the various resistance machines and by the time I was done, he was as good as finished. Now I was really tired at this point but I elbowed the usual muscle men off the weights benches and pumped some iron.

I am hoisting the massive 7.5kg weights, and I’m fairly certain I didn’t look weedy in any way as I sat next to Mr. 30kgs on the other bench. I curled 7.5kg weights to failure before moving onto the triceps push down at 7kgs, which I again did to failure.

By now Nigel had finished his routine and had gone for a jog on the treadmill. His machine was broken as it was claiming that he was doing 10.5mph, yet he seemed to be only just jogging, to prove the point I wound up the machine next to him to 10.5mph and was at a full blown run.

Despite this mucking about I was finished, I was really tired and I think Nigel had had enough too. So we headed to the swimming pool. I had a bit of a second wind and swam for 20 minutes before relaxing in the Jacuzzi and sauna.

All told, the workout and swim (not including the sauna and Jacuzzi bit) took about an hour and a quarter. I thought that would be enough to give me that workout ache but it wasn’t. I sit here on my rest day feeling that I don’t have to rest for much. I think for the weekend session I am going to have to try and go for two hours of activity to earn the glow of exercise.