The adventures continue with my first week at the gym…
So I’ve joined the gym, scheduled my free personal training for the first day (click here to read that fiasco) and packed my bag the night before. I’m all set! Or so I think…. Once I get to work, I realize I’ve forgotten both a towel and an armband. No big deal, I can make due without the towel and armband for my first day. Once I get to the gym however, I realize I’ve also forgotten a lock! Soul Cycle was the last ‘gym’ type thing I had been to and they have locks for you built into the lockers. Oy!
I change, shove my purse and bag into a locker that’s broken, hoping no one will use it and go ask the front desk if they happen to have loaner locks. At this point, I am already wary of the gym in general, but I have goals and I was so excited to join the gym, I am not going to let this deter me! The front desk doesn’t have a lock for me to borrow but the kind gentleman told me he would place my stuff behind the counter while I workout. Better than nothing!
With my stuff secure and the trainer busy, I go and get in my pre-planned HIIT session on the treadmill while I wait for him. Earlier in the week I had looked up glute workouts to do at the gym so I had a rough mental list of exercises I wanted to do that day. Once I completed the HIIT workout and figured out my trainer was now unavailable, I set out to do the glute workouts.
Here’s where the fun begins…. I go to the leg press machine, I had done this in the high school weight room (some 12 years earlier!) and I didn’t remember it being too difficult to figure out. I got this! Continue reading →