Okay, classes over, let’s hit the floor.
Alright, so it’s Wednesday and there’s no interesting classes that I’d want to take at the gym. I’m hitting the floor once again and trying out their Body-Fit workout routine. It’s pretty idiot proof and that’s good enough for me.
I started the night out with about 30 minutes of cardio on the elliptical again, and then tried to go through all 9 machines. It didn’t work quite as planned because I was under the impression you do one circut within 20 minutes and either leave or head in for a second set. But there were people standing/sitting around the machines doing two or three sets of one exercise which was starting to get to me. Finally I started, and if someone was in my way, I’d skip that machine and get onto the next one, which I’m sure pissed them off as then they would have to wait for me to get off that one.
I didn’t know what weights to start at, and it seems they want you to max out at 12 reps, and once 12 reps becomes too easy, to increase the weight. I was so used to doing between 15-20 reps and 3 sets before I was maxing myself out, that I picked weights around that target range. I could go much heavier for the 8-12 reps they wanted. The workout was thusly, way too easy as I had too little resistance on the machines, but I was able to gauge how to work them all which was good.
I dislike the ab machine though. I loved the one at Premier fitness, it was this super-crunch thing that would have me pull up my legs at the same time I was crunching my upper body. Left nothing in the middle to get all caught up or tangled up in. The ab machine in this body-fit circut was a pad you crunch down into, which got in the way of my hoodie, which got in the way of my bulging (not muscle bulge though unfortunately) stomach. Whatever. I’ll figure something out next week I’m sure.
So there we have it. Wednesday, at least, seems to be my weights day. I need to find at least one more day to do that, possibly a Friday/Saturday and I should be good!
