Oranges

A couple of days away from the keyboard, so I will try to remember what I did in the gym on Tuesday.

Tuesday was a solo gym session for me, Nigel was working as per. I wasn’t really in the mood for it but I did learn a good lesson. Warm Up first.

I hopped onto the treadmill cold and just set to, I did a bit of a walk for a minute or two before pushing the speed up to 7mph. almost immediately my right calf muscle locked up with cramp. It was the first time I had to hit the emergency stop button and the treadmill really did come to a halt.

I hobbled around the back of the gym for a while, stretched the cramp out of the muscle, and then decided that today I would use the cross trainer. 20 minutes, level 6, interval setting. That did the job of warming the rest of me up nicely.

I did the lifts with my back, in three sets of fifteen, at 63kgs, 62kgs and then finally at 59kgs. I kept having to drop the weight as each set was getting the muscles at the base of my spine really burning (in a good way) and I just couldn’t repeat the set at the same weight.

There were a couple of blokes hogging the weights bench so I headed back to the treadmill. My leg was feeling fine now that I was active, 20 minutes, 7mph, interval mode. My ipod batteries then died. I really wasn’t in the mood and using Nigel’s appearance to say Hi as an excuse, I stopped. It was also about this time that the leisure manager came round with half time oranges. I appreciate that he had an excess of oranges for whatever reason, but it was a jolly nice gesture and one of the reasons why I love this gym.

I went and steamed and sauna’d for a bit before heading home.

The next session is going to be Thursday night. Nigel has the day off, and I am planning on working out big time. Running, rowing, lifting like never before, I haven’t had that ache for a few days now and am keen for the exercise high that accompanies it again.